§ 536.202 - Specifications.

Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. 6962, the Environmental Protection Agency has promulgated rules in 40 CFR Parts 248 and 249, regarding the use of certain waste by-products as generally acceptable substitutes for energy-intensive raw materials. The rules provide that when certain construction material containing energy intensive raw material is required that the technical specification allows as an alternate, construction material containing certain waste byproducts. However, specifications should not be revised to allow the use of the alternate material if it is found that performance requirements for the construction material would not be met or that the use of the alternate material would be unsatisfactory for technical reasons.