---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6955"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6955"
heading: "Marketing policies, establishment; nondiscrimination requirement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6955"
units:
  - "Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal"
  - "Subchapter V — Duties of Secretary of Commerce in Resource and Recovery"
---

# §6955. Marketing policies, establishment; nondiscrimination requirement


In establishing any policies which may affect the development of new markets for [recovered materials](/usc/42/6903.md?p=19) and in making any determination concerning whether or not to impose monitoring or other controls on any marketing or transfer of [recovered materials](/usc/42/6903.md?p=19), the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Commerce may consider whether to establish the same or similar policies or impose the same or similar monitoring or other controls on [virgin materials](/usc/42/6903.md?p=35).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 5005, as added Pub. L. 96–482, § 21(c)(1), Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2346.)