Regulations last checked for updates: Apr 18, 2024

Title 23 - Highways last revised: Jan 18, 2024
§ 751.5 - Policy.

In carrying out the purposes of this part:

(a) Emphasis should be placed on encouraging recycling of scrap and junk where practicable, in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.);

(b) Every effort should be made to screen nonconforming junkyards which are to continue as ongoing businesses; and

(c) Nonconforming junkyards should be relocated only as a last resort.

authority: 23 U.S.C. 136 and 315, 42 U.S.C. 4321–4347 and 4601–4655, 23 CFR 1.32, 49 CFR 1.48, unless otherwise noted
source: 40 FR 8551, Feb. 28, 1975, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 23 CFR 751.5