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title: "42 U.S.C. § 6901a"
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title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
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# 42 U.S.C. § 6901a - Congressional findings: used oil recycling

## Text

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, § 2, Oct. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 2055.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

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.