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42 U.S. Code § 6981. Research, demonstration, training, and other activities
(a) General authorityThe Administrator, alone or after consultation with the Secretary of Energy, shall conduct, and encourage, cooperate with, and render financial and other assistance to appropriate public (whether Federal, State, interstate, or local) authorities, agencies, and institutions, private agencies and institutions, and individuals in the conduct of, and promote the coordination of, research, investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, public education programs, and studies relating to—
(1)
any adverse health and welfare effects of the release into the environment of material present in solid waste, and methods to eliminate such effects;
(2)
the operation and financing of solid waste management programs;
(3)
the planning, implementation, and operation of resource recovery and resource conservation systems and hazardous waste management systems, including the marketing of recovered resources;
(4)
the production of usable forms of recovered resources, including fuel, from solid waste;
(5)
the reduction of the amount of such waste and unsalvageable waste materials;
(6)
the development and application of new and improved methods of collecting and disposing of solid waste and processing and recovering materials and energy from solid wastes;
(7)
the identification of solid waste components and potential materials and energy recoverable from such waste components;
(8)
small scale and low technology solid waste management systems, including but not limited to, resource recovery source separation systems;
(9)
methods to improve the performance characteristics of resources recovered from solid waste and the relationship of such performance characteristics to available and potentially available markets for such resources;