Nothing in the Hazardous Waste Act shall be construed to apply to any activity or substance which is subject to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, (42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.) or the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, (42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) except to the extent that such application or regulation is not inconsistent with the requirements of such acts; nor shall the Hazardous Waste Act apply to the treatment, storage or disposal of wastes under a permit issued pursuant to the Surface Mining Act [Chapter 69, Article 25A NMSA 1978] or the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, as amended, or to any farmer disposing of waste pesticides from his own use, provided he triple rinses each emptied pesticide container and disposes of the pesticide residues on his own farm in a manner consistent with the disposal instructions on the pesticide label.
History: 1978 Comp., § 74-4-3.1, enacted by Laws 1981 (1st S.S.), ch. 8, § 3.
ANNOTATIONSCompiler's notes. — The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, referred to near the beginning of this section, has been superseded by the Water Pollution Control Act, which appears as 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
Cross references. — For the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, see 30 U.S.C. § 1201 et seq.