---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6917"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6917"
heading: "Office of Ombudsman"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6917"
units:
  - "Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal"
  - "Subchapter II — Office of Solid Waste; Authorities of the Administrator"
---

# §6917. Office of Ombudsman

- (a) **Establishment; functions—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) shall establish an [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of [Ombudsman](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=2), to be directed by an [Ombudsman](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=2). It shall be the function of the [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of [Ombudsman](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=2) to receive individual complaints, grievances, requests for information submitted by any [person](/usc/42/6903.md?p=15) with respect to any [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) or requirement under this chapter.
- (b) **Authority to render assistance—** The [Ombudsman](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=2) shall render assistance with respect to the complaints, grievances, and requests submitted to the [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of [Ombudsman](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=2), and shall make appropriate recommendations to the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1).
- (c) **Effect on procedures for grievances, appeals, or administrative matters—** The establishment of the [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of [Ombudsman](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=2) shall not affect any procedures for grievances, appeals, or administrative matters in any other provision of this chapter, any other provision of law, or any Federal regulation.
- (d) **Termination—** The [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of the [Ombudsman](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=2) shall cease to exist 4 years after November 8, 1984.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 2008, as added Pub. L. 98–616, title I, § 103(a), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3225.)