10 U.S.C. § 8681 — Repair or maintenance of naval vessels: handling of hazardous waste

(a) Contractual Provisions — Every contract for work on a naval vessel (other than new construction) must include: (1) Identification of hazardous wastes — the Navy must identify, in enough detail for the contractor to follow federal and state law, the types and amounts of hazardous waste the contractor must remove or that work will likely generate. (2) Compensation — a clause saying the contractor is paid for the duties described in (3). (3) Statement of work — a clause spelling out who — Navy or contractor — is responsible for removing, handling, storing, transporting, and disposing of hazardous waste. (4)(A) Accountability for hazardous wastes — (i) if the Navy alone generates the waste, all related paperwork must carry the Navy's generator ID number; (ii) if the contractor alone generates it, the paperwork must carry the contractor's ID number; (iii) if both generate waste, the paperwork must carry both ID numbers. (B) Whether the Navy, the contractor, or both count as "generators" is decided the same way as under the Solid Waste Disposal Act and its regulations. (b) Renegotiation of Contract — The Secretary must renegotiate the contract if the contractor finds hazardous waste different in type or amount from what the contract identified, and that waste came from the vessel or from material the government supplied for the work. (c) Removal of Wastes — Before a vessel arrives at a contractor's facility, the Secretary must remove known hazardous waste from it, as far as that's practical. (d) Relationship to Solid Waste Disposal Act — This section doesn't change how the Solid Waste Disposal Act treats hazardous-waste generators. Any term this section uses that the Solid Waste Disposal Act (or its regulations) defines carries that same meaning here.