---
kind: "unit"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
key: "ch82/schIV"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter IV"
heading: "State or Regional Solid Waste Plans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/ch82-schIV"
sections_count: 11
---

# Subchapter IV — State or Regional Solid Waste Plans

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal

## Sections

- [§6941. Objectives of subchapter](/usc/42/6941.md)
- [§6941a. Energy and materials conservation and recovery; Congressional findings](/usc/42/6941a.md)
- [§6942. Federal guidelines for plans](/usc/42/6942.md)
- [§6943. Requirements for approval of plans](/usc/42/6943.md)
- [§6944. Criteria for sanitary landfills; sanitary landfills required for all disposal](/usc/42/6944.md)
- [§6945. Upgrading of open dumps](/usc/42/6945.md)
- [§6946. Procedure for development and implementation of State plan](/usc/42/6946.md)
- [§6947. Approval of State plan; Federal assistance](/usc/42/6947.md)
- [§6948. Federal assistance](/usc/42/6948.md)
- [§6949. Rural communities assistance](/usc/42/6949.md)
- [§6949a. Adequacy of certain guidelines and criteria](/usc/42/6949a.md)