Coordination, collection, and dissemination of information
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(a) InformationThe Administrator shall develop, collect, evaluate, and coordinate information on—
(1)
methods and costs of the collection of solid waste;
(2)
solid waste management practices, including data on the different management methods and the cost, operation, and maintenance of such methods;
(3)
the amounts and percentages of resources (including energy) that can be recovered from solid waste by use of various solid waste management practices and various technologies;
(4)
methods available to reduce the amount of solid waste that is generated;
(5)
existing and developing technologies for the recovery of energy or materials from solid waste and the costs, reliability, and risks associated with such technologies;
(6)
hazardous solid waste, including incidents of damage resulting from the disposal of hazardous solid wastes; inherently and potentially hazardous solid wastes; methods of neutralizing or properly disposing of hazardous solid wastes; facilities that properly dispose of hazardous wastes;
(7)
methods of financing resource recovery facilities or, sanitary landfills, or hazardous solid waste treatment facilities, whichever is appropriate for the entity developing such facility or landfill (taking into account the amount of solid waste reasonably expected to be available to such entity);