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Idaho Code § 39-4402

Legislative findings and purposes

Known as the Hazardous Waste Management Act

The act spans §§ 39–39 (36 sections).

I.C., § 39-4402, as added by 1983, ch. 154, § 1, p. 416.

(1) The legislature of the State of Idaho finds: That continuing technological progress, increases in manufacturing, and the abatement of air and water pollution have resulted in ever-increasing quantities of hazardous waste;

(2) That the public health and safety, and the environment, are threatened when hazardous wastes are not managed in an environmentally sound manner;

(3) That the knowledge and technology necessary for alleviating adverse health, environmental and aesthetic impacts resulting from current hazardous waste management and disposal practices are generally available; and,

(4) That the problem of proper management of hazardous waste has become a matter of great statewide concern.

(5) Therefore, it is hereby declared that the purposes of this act are: To protect the public health and safety, the health of living organisms, and the environment from the effects of the improper, inadequate, or unsound management of hazardous waste;

(6) To establish a program to track and control hazardous wastes from the time they are generated through transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal; and,

(7) To assure the safe and adequate management of hazardous wastes within this state.

Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.