---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6933"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6933"
heading: "Hazardous waste site inventory"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6933"
units:
  - "Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal"
  - "Subchapter III — Hazardous Waste Management"
---

# §6933. Hazardous waste site inventory

- (a) **State inventory programs—** Each [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) shall, as expeditiously as practicable, undertake a continuing program to compile, publish, and submit to the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) an inventory describing the location of each site within such [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) at which [hazardous waste](/usc/42/6903.md?p=5) has at any time been stored or disposed of. Such inventory shall contain—
  - (1) a description of the location of the sites at which any such [storage](/usc/42/6903.md?p=33) or [disposal](/usc/42/6903.md?p=3) has taken place before the date on which permits are required under [section 6925 of this title](/usc/42/6925.md) for such [storage](/usc/42/6903.md?p=33) or [disposal](/usc/42/6903.md?p=3);
  - (2) such information relating to the amount, nature, and toxicity of the [hazardous waste](/usc/42/6903.md?p=5) at each such site as may be practicable to obtain and as may be necessary to determine the extent of any health hazard which may be associated with such site;
  - (3) the name and address, or corporate headquarters of, the [owner](/usc/42/13641.md?p=4) of each such site, determined as of the date of preparation of the inventory;
  - (4) an identification of the types or techniques of waste [treatment](/usc/42/6903.md?p=34) or [disposal](/usc/42/6903.md?p=3) which have been used at each such site; and
  - (5) information concerning the current status of the site, including information respecting whether or not [hazardous waste](/usc/42/6903.md?p=5) is currently being treated or disposed of at such site (and if not, the date on which such activity ceased) and information respecting the nature of any other activity currently carried out at such site.

  For purposes of assisting the [States](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) in compiling information under this section, the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) shall make available to each [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) undertaking a program under this section such information as is available to him concerning the items specified in paragraphs [(1)](#a-1) through [(5)](#a-5) with respect to the sites within such [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31), including such information as the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) is able to obtain from other [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) or departments of the United States and from surveys and studies carried out by any committee or subcommittee of the Congress. Any [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) may exercise the authority of [section 6927 of this title](/usc/42/6927.md) for purposes of this section in the same manner and to the same extent as provided in such section in the case of [States](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) having an authorized [hazardous waste](/usc/42/6903.md?p=5) program, and any [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) may by order require any [person](/usc/42/6903.md?p=15) to submit such information as may be necessary to compile the data referred to in paragraphs [(1)](#a-1) through [(5)](#a-5).

- (b) **Environmental Protection Agency program—** If the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) determines that any [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) program under [subsection (a)](#a) is not adequately providing information respecting the sites in such [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) referred to in [subsection (a)](#a), the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) shall notify the [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31). If within ninety days following such notification, the [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) program has not been revised or amended in such manner as will adequately provide such information, the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) shall carry out the inventory program in such [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31). In any such case—
  - (1) the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) shall have the authorities provided with respect to [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) programs under [subsection (a)](#a);
  - (2) the funds allocated under [subsection (c)](#c) for grants to [States](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) under this section may be used by the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) for carrying out such program in such [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31); and
  - (3) no further expenditure may be made for grants to such [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) under this section until such time as the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) determines that such [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) is carrying out, or will carry out, an inventory program which meets the requirements of this section.
- (c) **Grants—**
  - (1) Upon receipt of an application submitted by any [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) to carry out a program under this section, the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) may make grants to the [States](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) for purposes of carrying out such a program. Grants under this section shall be allocated among the several [States](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) by the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) based upon such regulations as he prescribes to carry out the purposes of this section. The [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) may make grants to any [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) which has conducted an inventory program which effectively carried out the purposes of this section before October 21, 1980, to reimburse such [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) for all, or any portion of, the costs incurred by such [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) in conducting such program.
  - (2) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1985 through 1988.
- (d) **No impediment to immediate remedial action—** Nothing in this section shall be construed to provide that the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) or any [State](/usc/42/6903.md?p=31) should, pending completion of the inventory required under this section, postpone undertaking any enforcement or remedial action with respect to any site at which [hazardous waste](/usc/42/6903.md?p=5) has been treated, stored, or disposed of.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 3012, as added Pub. L. 96–482, § 17(a), Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2342; amended Pub. L. 98–616, § 2(c), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3222.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Another section 3012 of Pub. L. 89–272 as added by Pub. L. 96–463, § 7(a), Oct. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 2057, was redesignated section 3014 of Pub. L. 89–272, and is classified to section 6935 of this title.

### Amendments

1984—Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 98–616 substituted “$25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1985 through 1988” for “$20,000,000”.

### 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.