Rules & Regulations of the State of Tennessee
Title 0400 - Environment and Conservation
Subtitle 0400-11 - Division of Solid Waste Management (Solid Waste Program)
Chapter 0400-11-02 - Challenge Grants for Waste Reductions
Section 0400-11-02-.01 - PURPOSE AND SCOPE

(1) This rule is established in order to set standards and procedures that are necessary for the administration of the grant program established by T.C.A. § 68-212-205(d).

(2) This program shall be known as the Challenge Grants Program. The purpose of the Program is to assist in the development and implementation of programs to prevent, minimize, recycle, or eliminate toxic and/or hazardous waste generation in keeping with the policy of the state, that ".wherever feasible, the generation of hazardous waste is to be reduced or eliminated as expeditiously as possible. Waste that is nevertheless generated should, in order of priority, be reduced at its source, recovered and reused, recycled, treated, or disposed of so as to minimize the present and future threat to human health and the environment." (T.C.A. § 68-212-201(b)).

(3) There shall be two (2) broad categories of Challenge Grants. One category shall be for research to encourage the development of new technology for the reduction or better treatment of hazardous waste. The other category shall encourage generators of hazardous waste to adopt and adapt more appropriate technologies that reduce or better treat hazardous waste.