---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6901a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6901a"
heading: "Congressional findings: used oil recycling"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6901a"
units:
  - "Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §6901a. Congressional findings: used oil recycling


The Congress finds and declares that—

- (1) [used oil](/usc/42/6903.md?p=36) is a valuable source of increasingly scarce energy and materials;
- (2) technology exists to re-refine, reprocess, reclaim, and otherwise recycle [used oil](/usc/42/6903.md?p=36);
- (3) [used oil](/usc/42/6903.md?p=36) 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](/usc/42/6903.md?p=36) in a manner which does not constitute a threat to public health and the environment and which conserves energy and materials.


## Source credit

(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.