---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 14336"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "14336"
heading: "New product or use"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/14336"
units:
  - "Chapter 137 — Management of Rechargeable Batteries and Batteries Containing Mercury"
  - "Subchapter III — Management of Batteries Containing Mercury"
---

# §14336. New product or use


On petition of a person that proposes a new use for a battery technology described in this subchapter or the use of a battery described in this subchapter in a new product, the [Administrator](/usc/42/14302.md?p=1) may exempt from this subchapter the new use of the technology or the use of such a battery in the new product on the condition, if appropriate, that there exist reasonable safeguards to ensure that the resulting battery or product without an [easily removable](/usc/42/14302.md?p=3) battery will not be disposed of in an incinerator, composting facility, or landfill (other than a facility regulated under subtitle C of the Solid Waste Disposal Act ([42 U.S.C. 6921](/usc/42/6921.md) et seq.)).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–142, title II, § 207, May 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 1336.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Solid Waste Disposal Act, referred to in text, is title II of Pub. L. 89–272, Oct. 20, 1965, 79 Stat. 997, as amended generally by Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2795. Subtitle C of the Act is classified generally to subchapter III (§ 6921 et seq.) of chapter 82 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6901 of this title and Tables.