22-22-1
Section 22-22-1 Short title; definitions. (a) This chapter may be cited as the "Alabama Water Pollution Control Act." (b) For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise indicated, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (2) WATERS. All waters of any river, stream, watercourse, pond, lake, coastal, ground or surface water, wholly or partially within the state, natural or artificial. This does not include waters which are entirely confined and retained completely upon the property of a single individual, partnership or corporation unless such waters are used in interstate commerce. (3) POLLUTION. The discharge of a pollutant or combination of pollutants. A pollutant includes but is not limited to dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or...
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22-27-2
by the owner or operator of a municipal solid waste landfill which guarantees the availability of funds which may be used to close, provide post-closure care, or conduct corrective action at that facility if the owner or operator fails to properly execute his or her responsibilities under this article and any rules adopted by the department for closure, post-closure care, or corrective action and the terms of any permit issued for operation of that facility. (12) GARBAGE. Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food, including wastes from markets, storage facilities, handling and sale of produce and other food products and excepting such materials that may be serviced by garbage grinders and handled as household sewage. (13) GENERATION. The act or process of producing solid waste. Solid waste shall be considered to be generated at the point that waste materials are first discarded or collected, regardless of...
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22-30-3
Section 22-30-3 Definitions. When used in this chapter and except where the context prohibits, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMISSION. The Environmental Management Commission of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management as created by Section 22-22A-6. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management as created by Section 22-22A-4. (3) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (4) DISPOSAL. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including ground waters. (5) HAZARDOUS WASTE. A solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which, because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may: a. Cause, or significantly contribute to,...
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45-49-252
INCINERATION. A controlled process by which solid, liquid, or gaseous combustible wastes are burned and changed into gases, and the residue produced contains little or no combustible material. (20) INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE. Solid waste that results from industrial processes and manufacturing. (21) INFECTIOUS WASTES. Those wastes resulting from the operation of medical clinics, hospitals, abattoirs, and other facilities producing waste which may consist of, but are not limited to, human and animal parts, contaminated bandages, pathological specimens, hypodermic needles, contaminated clothing, and surgical gloves. (22) NON-RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE. Solid waste from agricultural, commercial, industrial, or institutional activities or from parcels of property occupied by six or more residential units unless exempt by the Mobile County Commission from mechanical pickup requirements. (23) PERSONS. Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, public or private corporation,...
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45-36-171
Section 45-36-171 Abatement of nuisances related to commercial swine farming operations. (a) This section shall apply only in Jackson County, Alabama. (b) The following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COUNTY. Jackson County. (2) COUNTY COMMISSION. The Jackson County Commission. (3) SWINE FARM or SWINE FARMING. Commercial concentrated animal feeding operations for swine. For purposes of this section, the term concentrated animal feeding operation for swine means an animal feeding operation defined in Title 40, Part 122, Appendix B of the Code of Federal Regulations, relating to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), or as otherwise designated by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, and as defined and regulated by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management pursuant to Chapter 335-6-7 of the Alabama Administrative Code. (c)(1) Upon a written complaint and request from any person residing in the county, the county commission, after a...
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22-25B-1
Section 22-25B-1 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ADEM. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (2) ADPH. The Alabama Department of Public Health. (3) CERTIFICATE OF ECONOMIC VIABILITY. The certification by the commission of the financial viability of a wastewater management entity's financial viability pursuant to this chapter. (4) CLUSTER WASTEWATER SYSTEM. An integrated wastewater collection system or treatment system, or both, or multiple systems serving a single development or contiguous developments, which collectively have a design flow of 15,000 GPD or less, and is designed and permitted for discharge of the treated wastewater to a subsurface distribution system, but excluding systems that discharge directly to surface waters of the state. The system must be designed by and certified by a licensed professional engineer to comply with design and permit...
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11-3A-2
and for the public welfare, health, and safety of the citizens throughout the unincorporated areas of the county by exercising certain powers for the protection of the county and public property under its control. The powers granted herein to provide for the public welfare, health, and safety of its citizens shall only include the following: (1) Abatement of weeds as a public nuisance as defined in Section 11-67-60. (2) Subject to the provisions of Section 6-5-127, control of animals and animal nuisances. (3) Control of litter as defined in subsection (b) of Section 13A-7-29, or rubbish as defined in subdivision (4) of Section 22-27-2. (4) Junkyard control of areas which create a public nuisance because of an accumulation of items described in the definition of a junkyard under Section 11-80-10. (5) Subject to the provisions of Section 6-5-127, abatement of noise, unsanitary sewage, or pollution creating a public nuisance as defined in Sections 6-5-120 and 6-5-121. (b) Except as...
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22-32-1
Section 22-32-1 Enactment of Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the State of Alabama with any and all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as follows: SOUTHEAST INTERSTATE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPACT Article I. Policy and Purpose There is hereby created the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The party states recognize and declare that each state is responsible for providing for the availability of capacity either within or outside the state for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders, except for waste generated as a result of defense activities of the federal government or federal research and development activities. They also recognize that the management of low-level radioactive waste is handled most...
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11-51-90.2
respect to taxpayers subject to state licensing board oversight, be classified into one or more of the following 2002 North American Industrial Classification System ("NAICS") sectors and applicable sub-sectors, industry groups, industries, and U.S. industries thereunder: SECTOR NAICS TITLE SUGGESTED BUSINESS LICENSE CODE GROUPING BY SAMPLE TOPIC OR CATEGORY BASIS FOR LICENSE CALCULATION 111 Crop Production Agriculture, farming, nursery, fruit, growers Gross Receipts and/or Flat Rate 112 Animal Production Animal, dairy, cattle, ranching, sheep, chicken Gross Receipts and/or Flat Rate 113 Forestry and Logging Forestry, logging, timber Gross Receipts and/or Flat Rate 114 Fishing, Hunting, and Trapping Fishing, hunting, supplies and equipment Gross Receipts and/or Flat Rate 115 Support for Agriculture and Forestry Cotton ginning, farm management, post-harvest activities Gross Receipts and/or Flat Rate 211 Oil and Gas Extraction Oil, gas, extraction, natural gas, crude State Regulated...
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22-36-2
Section 22-36-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise indicated, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Environmental Management Commission. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (3) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (4) OPERATOR. Any person in control of, or having responsibility for, the daily operation of an underground storage tank. (5) OWNER OF AN UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK: a. In the case of an underground storage tank in use on November 8, 1984 or brought into use after that date, any person who owns an underground storage tank used for the storage, use, or dispensing of regulated substances, and b. In the case of any underground storage tank in use before November 8, 1984 but no longer in use on that date, the present owner of the tank and any person who owned such tank immediately before the...
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