To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out certain authorities under an agreement with Canada respecting the importation of municipal solid waste, and for other purposes.
Latest action · Jul 29, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
Progress
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- IntroducedJul 26, 2002
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to perform the functions of the Designated Authority of the United States with respect to the importation and exportation of MSW under the Agreement and to implement and enforce the Agreement.
Sets forth factors for consideration in the Administrator's determinations of whether to consent to importation.
Provides procedures for issuance of compliance orders, assessment of civil penalties, and conduct of public hearings.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 29, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
- Jul 26, 2002Introduced in House
- Jul 26, 2002Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Administrative remedies
- Air quality
- Canada
- Civil actions and liability
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental health
- Environmental law enforcement
- Environmental Protection
- Export controls
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Fines (Penalties)
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Hazardous waste disposal
- Health
- Highway maintenance
- Import restrictions
- Imports
- Incineration
- International Affairs
- International environmental cooperation
- International environmental law
- Landfills
- Law
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- Municipal solid waste
- Recycling of waste products
- Refuse and refuse disposal
- Subpoena
- Transboundary pollution
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation of hazardous substances
- Treaties
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