---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6951"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6951"
heading: "Functions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6951"
units:
  - "Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal"
  - "Subchapter V — Duties of Secretary of Commerce in Resource and Recovery"
---

# §6951. Functions


The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Commerce shall encourage greater commercialization of proven [resource recovery](/usc/42/6903.md?p=22) technology by providing—

- (1) accurate specifications for [recovered materials](/usc/42/6903.md?p=19);
- (2) stimulation of development of markets for [recovered materials](/usc/42/6903.md?p=19);
- (3) promotion of proven technology; and
- (4) a forum for the exchange of technical and economic data relating to [resource recovery facilities](/usc/42/6903.md?p=24).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 5001, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2820.)