459.400 - Purpose. - Nevada Statutes

459.400  Purpose.  The purposes of NRS 459.400 to 459.600, inclusive, are to:

      1.  Protect human health, public safety and the environment from the effects of improper, inadequate or unsound management of hazardous waste;

      2.  Establish a program for regulation of the storage, generation, transportation, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste; and

      3.  Ensure safe and adequate management of hazardous waste.

      (Added to NRS by 1981, 880)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 444.700)