The Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Environmental Quality are authorized to perform or cause to be performed any act necessary to gain partial and final approval of a solid waste regulatory program under the provisions of the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, P.L. 94-580 and the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, P.L. 98-616 as amended, and federal regulations and interpretive and guidance documents issued pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. [Formerly 459.209]