42 U.S.C. § 9625 : US Code - Section 9625: Section 6921(b)(3)(A)(i) waste

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(a) Revision of hazard ranking system
This section shall apply only to facilities which are not
included or proposed for inclusion on the National Priorities List
and which contain substantial volumes of waste described in section
6921(b)(3)(A)(i) of this title. As expeditiously as practicable,
the President shall revise the hazard ranking system in effect
under the National Contingency Plan with respect to such facilities
in a manner which assures appropriate consideration of each of the
following site-specific characteristics of such facilities:
(1) The quantity, toxicity, and concentrations of hazardous
constituents which are present in such waste and a comparison
thereof with other wastes.
(2) The extent of, and potential for, release of such hazardous
constituents into the environment.
(3) The degree of risk to human health and the environment
posed by such constituents.
(b) Inclusion prohibited
Until the hazard ranking system is revised as required by this
section, the President may not include on the National Priorities
List any facility which contains substantial volumes of waste
described in section 6921(b)(3)(A)(i) of this title on the basis of
an evaluation made principally on the volume of such waste and not
on the concentrations of the hazardous constituents of such waste.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the
President's authority to include any such facility on the National
Priorities List based on the presence of other substances at such
facility or to exercise any other authority of this chapter with
respect to such other substances.