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waste for a commercial or industrial use. 



" (19) The t€rm 'recovered material' means mate- 

 rial which has been collected or recovered from 

 solid waste. 



"(20) The term 'recovered resources' means ma- 

 terial or energy recovered from solid waste. 



"(21) The term 'resource conservation' means 

 reduction of the amounts of solid waste that are 

 generated, reduction of overall resource consump- 

 tion, and utilization of recovered resources. 



"(22) The term 'resource recovery' means the 

 recovery of material or energy from solid waste. 



"(23) The term 'resource recovery system' means 

 a solid waste management system which provides 

 for collection, separation, recycling, and recovery 

 of solid wastes, including disposal of nonrecover- 

 able waste residues. 



"(24) The term 'resource recovery facility' means 

 any facility at which solid waste is processed for 

 the purpose of extracting, converting to energy, 

 or otherwise separating and preparing solid waste 

 for reuse. 



"(25) The term 'regional authority' means the 

 authority established or designated under section 

 4006. 



"(26) The term 'sanitary landfill' means a facil- 

 ity for the disposal of solid waste which meets the 

 criteria published under section 4004. 



"(26A) The term 'sludge' means any solid, semi- 

 solid or liquid waste generated from a municipal, 

 commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment 

 plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollu- 

 tion control facility or any other such waste hav- 

 ing similar characteristics and effects. 



"(27) The term 'solid waste' means any garbage, 

 refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water 

 supply treatment plant, or air pollution control 

 facility and other discarded material, including 

 solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous mate- 

 rial resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, 

 and agricultural operations, and from community 

 activities, but does not include solid or dissolved 

 material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved 

 materials in irrigation return flows or industrial 

 discharges which are point sources subject to per- 

 mits under section 402 of the Federal Water Pol- 

 lution Control Act, as amended (86 Stat. 880), or 

 source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as 

 defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 

 amended (68 Stat. 923) . 



"(28) The term 'solid waste management' means 

 the systematic administration of activities which 

 provide for the collection, source separation, stor- 

 age, transportation, transfer, processing, treat- 

 ment, and disposal of solid waste. 



"(29) The term 'solid waste management facility' 

 includes (A) any resource recovery system or com- 

 ponent thereof, (B) any system, program, or fa- 

 cility for resource conservation, and (C) any facil- 

 ity for the treatment of solid wastes, including 

 hazardous wastes, whether such facility is associ- 

 ated with facilities generating such wastes or 

 otherwise. 



"(30) The terms 'solid waste plaiming', 'solid 



waste management', and 'comprehensive planning' 

 include planning or management respecting re- 

 source recovery and resource conservation. 



"(31) The term 'State' means any of the several 

 States, the District of Columbia, the Common- 

 wealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, 

 American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the 

 Northern Mariaria Islands. 



"(32) The term 'State authority' means the 

 agency established or designated under section 

 4007. 



"(33) The term 'storage', when lased in connec- 

 tion with hazardous waste, means the containment 

 of hazardous waste, either on a temporary basis or 

 for a period of years, in such a manner as not to 

 constitute disposal of such hazardous waste. 



"(34) The term 'treatment', when used In con- 

 nection with hazardous waste, means any method, 

 technique, or process, Including neutralization, de- 

 signed to change the physical, chemical, or biologi- 

 cal character or composition of any hazardous 

 waste so as to neutralize such waste or so as to 

 render such waste nonhazardous, safer for trans- 

 port, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, 

 or reduced in volume. Such term includes any ac- 

 tivity or processing designed to change the physical 

 form or chemical composition of hazardous waste 

 so as to render it nonhazardous. 



"(35) The term 'virgin material' means a raw 

 material, including previously vmused copper, 

 aluminum, lead, zinc. Iron, or other metal or metal 

 ore, any undeveloped resource that Is, or with new 

 technology will become, a source of raw materials. 



"governmental cooperation 



"Sec. 1005. (a) Interstate Cooperation. — ^The 

 provisions of this Act to be carried out by States 

 may be carried out by interstate agencies and pro- 

 visions applicable to States may apply to Interstate 

 regions where such agencies and regions have been 

 established by the respective States and approved 

 by the Administrator. In any such case, action 

 required to be taken by the Governor of a State, 

 respecting regional designation shall be required 

 to be taken by the Governor of each of the respec- 

 tive States with respect to so much of the interstate 

 region as is within the jurisdiction of that State. 



"(b) Consent of Congress to Compacts. — The 

 consent of the Congress is hereby given to two or 

 more States to negotiate and enter into agreements 

 or compacts, not in conflict with any law or treaty 

 of the United States, for— 



"(1) cooperative effort and mutual assistance 

 for the management of solid waste or hazardous 

 waste (or both) and the enforcement of their re- 

 spective laws relating thereto, and 



"(2) the establishment of such agencies, joint 

 or otherwise as they may deem desirable for 

 making effective such agreements or compacts. 

 No such agreement or compact shall be binding 

 or obligatory upon any State a party thereto unless 

 it is agreed upon by all parties to the agreement 

 and untU it has been approved by the Administra- 

 tor and the Congress. 



