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OCR: STATEMENT 1. Background This country faces solid waste dis- posal crisis national proportions. See 180 1069 million tons {b} of 1988 municipal we solid generated waste, -the approximately residen tial and commercial solid wastes generated within com- munity (40 C.F.R. 101k (199) that rumber IS projected to grow to million tons br the year 2000 the Sec 56 findings Fed of Reg 50978 Environmenta! 50980 1991) Protection (summarizing Agency study Much of that waste is AOI deposited ir Iandflls 1976. when Congress first enacted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) warned that developed "alternatives since to many existing of the methols cities of of land the disposal Urited must States" be are running out waste disposal sites. U.S. tified Waste materials one 6901(b}(8) Disposal from ...