{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-22-18-2","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 22-18-2","heading":"Declaration of policy.","body":"(a) The Legislature finds that:\n(1) Continuing technological progress and increases in the amount of manufacture and the abatement of air and water pollution have resulted in ever increasing quantities of hazardous wastes;\n(2) The public health and safety and the environment are threatened where hazardous wastes are not managed in an environmentally sound manner;\n(3) 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;\n(4) The manufacture, refinement, processing, treatment and use of coal, raw chemicals, ores, petroleum, gas and other natural and synthetic products are activities that make a significant contribution to the economy of this state; and\n(5) The problem of managing hazardous wastes has become a matter of statewide concern.\n(b) Therefore, it is hereby declared that the purposes of this article are:\n(1) To protect the public health and safety and the environment from the effects of the improper, inadequate or unsound management of hazardous wastes;\n(2) To establish a program of regulation over the storage, transportation, treatment and disposal of hazardous wastes;\n(3) To assure the safe and adequate management of hazardous wastes within this state; and\n(4) To assume regulatory primacy through Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.","path":["CHAPTER 22. ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES.","ARTICLE 18. HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/22-18-2/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:26:05Z","sha256":"b80c8888f27d4ab98ba8bba053aabbf5d69cca179c3b8d8796d73f22c000a86b","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-22-18-1","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-22-18-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}