Gallatin, City of v. Cherokee County
ELR Citation: ELR 20395 No(s). TY-81-107-CA (E.D. Tex. Jan 17, 1983)
The court rules that §4005 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) does not ban open dumping of solid wastes. In the city's challenge to the county's construction of a dump site, both parties construed §4005(a) to be a direct, self-executing federal prohibition on open dumping. The co...