---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6975"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6975"
heading: "Separability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6975"
units:
  - "Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal"
  - "Subchapter VII — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §6975. Separability


If any provision of this chapter, or the application of any provision of this chapter to any [person](/usc/42/6903.md?p=15) or circumstance, is held invalid, the application of such provision to other [persons](/usc/42/6903.md?p=15) or circumstances, and the remainder of this chapter, shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 7005, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2827.)