S 689
104th Congress
Senate
Environmental Protection
Administrative procedure
Biodegradation
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Hazardous waste disposal
Hazardous wastes
Landfills
Law
Organic compounds
Landfill Technological Improvement Act of 1995
Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 6, 1995
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Apr 6, 1995
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5421-5422)
Apr 6, 1995
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Landfill Technological Improvement Act of 1995 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide that regulations governing the presence of certain liquids in landfills shall not prohibit usage in hazardous waste landfills of sorbents manufactured from processed organic materials that are not likely to degrade in an anaerobic environment until the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency issues final regulations concerning anaerobic landfill conditions and the use of organic sorbents.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Committees of jurisdiction
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