HR-2303 : Still Just a Bill

Save Our Soldiers' Lungs Act - Includes within the definition of "covered waste" for purposes of the Department of Defense (DOD) prohibition against disposal of certain waste in open-air burn pits:

• tires;
• treated wood;
• batteries;
• plastics, except insignificant amounts of plastic remaining after a good-faith effort to remove or recover plastic materials from the solid waste stream;
• munitions and explosives;
• compressed gas cylinders, unless empty with valves removed;
• fuel containers, unless completely evacuated of contents;
• aerosol cans;
• polychlorinated biphenyls;
• petroleum, oils, and lubricants products (other than waste fuel for initial combustion);
• asbestos;
• mercury;
• foam tent material; and
• any item containing any of such materials.