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03/13/2026
Sec. 6901a. Congressional findings: used oil recycling
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Subchapter I: General provisions
The Congress finds and declares that -
(1)used oil is a valuable source of increasingly scarce energy and materials;
(2) technology exists to re-refine, reprocess, reclaim, and otherwise recycle used oil;
(3) used oil constitutes a threat to public health and the environment when reused or disposed of improperly; and that, therefore, it is in the national interest to recycle used oil in a manner which does not constitute a threat to public health and the environment and which conserves energy and materials.
(Pub. L. 96-463, Sec. 2, Oct. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 2055.)
CODIFICATION
Section was enacted as part of the Used Oil Recycling Act of 1980, and not as part of the Solid Waste Disposal Act which comprises this chapter.
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