---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6931"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6931"
heading: "Authorization of assistance to States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6931"
units:
  - "Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal"
  - "Subchapter III — Hazardous Waste Management"
---

# §6931. Authorization of assistance to States

- (a) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1978 and 1979[^1] $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1980, $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1981, $40,000,000 for the fiscal year 1982, $55,000,000 for the fiscal year 1985, $60,000,000 for the fiscal year 1986, $60,000,000 for the fiscal year 1987, and $60,000,000 for the fiscal year 1988 to be used to make grants to the [States](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) for purposes of assisting the [States](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) in the development and [implementation](/usc/42/6903.md?p=8) of authorized [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) [hazardous waste](/usc/42/6903.md?p=5) programs.
- (b) **Allocation—** Amounts authorized to be appropriated under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be allocated among the [States](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) on the basis of regulations promulgated by the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1), after consultation with the [States](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31), which take into account, the extent to which [hazardous waste](/usc/42/6903.md?p=5) is generated, transported, treated, stored, and disposed of within such [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31), the extent of exposure of human beings and the environment within such [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) to such waste, and such other factors as the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) deems appropriate.
- (c) **Activities included—** [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) [hazardous waste](/usc/42/6903.md?p=5) programs for which grants may be made under [subsection (a)](#a) may include (but shall not be limited to) planning for [hazardous waste](/usc/42/6903.md?p=5) [treatment](/usc/42/6903.md?p=34), [storage](/usc/42/6903.md?p=33) and [disposal](/usc/42/6903.md?p=3) facilities, and the development and execution of programs to protect health and the environment from inactive facilities which may contain [hazardous waste](/usc/42/6903.md?p=5).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be followed by a comma.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 3011, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2812; amended Pub. L. 96–482, §§ 16, 31(b), Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2342, 2352; Pub. L. 98–616, § 2(b), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3222.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–616 substituted “$40,000,000 for fiscal year 1982, $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1985, $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1986, $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1987, and $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1988” for “and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1982”.

1980—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–482, § 31(b), authorized appropriation of $20,000,000, $35,000,000, and $40,000,000 for fiscal years 1980, 1981, and 1982, respectively.

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 96–482, § 16, added subsec. (c).

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Administrator or other official of Environmental Protection Agency under this chapter to Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, see note set out under section 6903 of this title.