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22-22A-6
Section 22-22A-6 Environmental Management Commission; powers and duties; composition;
meetings; compensation; expenses; ethical requirements. (a) There is hereby created a seven
member Environmental Management Commission of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management
which shall have the following duties: (1) To select a director for the Department of Environmental
Management and to advise the director on environmental matters which are within the department's
scope of authority; (2) To establish, adopt, promulgate, modify, repeal, and suspend any rules,
regulations, or environmental standards for the department which may be applicable to the
state as a whole or any of its geographical parts; (3) To develop environmental policy for
the state; and (4) To hear and determine appeals of administrative actions. (b) The Environmental
Management Commission shall be composed of seven members who are citizens of the State of
Alabama. Initial members of the commission shall be appointed...
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35-19-12
Section 35-19-12 Registry of environmental covenants. (a) The Alabama Department of
Environmental Management shall establish and maintain a registry that contains all environmental
covenants and any amendment or termination of those covenants. The registry may also contain
any other information concerning environmental covenants and the real property subject to
them which the department considers appropriate. The registry is a public record for purposes
of Section 36-12-40. (b) After an environmental covenant or an amendment or termination
of a covenant is filed in the registry established pursuant to subsection (a), a notice of
the covenant, amendment, or termination that complies with this section may be recorded
in the land records in lieu of recording the entire covenant. Any such notice must contain
all of the following: (1) A legally sufficient description and any available street address
of the real property subject to the covenant. (2) The name and address of the owner of the...
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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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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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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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22-25B-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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22-22A-17
Section 22-22A-17 Navigable Waters Dredging Fund. (a) Notwithstanding any provision
of law, the budget proposed each year for the Alabama Department of Environmental Management
shall include as a line item in the General Fund Budget the Navigable Waters Dredging Fund
for the dredging of the navigable waters of this state and for sediment reuse. The director
of the department shall present the proposed budget at the appropriate budget hearing scheduled
by the Alabama Legislature. (b) There is established a Navigable Waters Dredging Fund which
shall be administered by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management which funds shall
be paid to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the purposes of dredging the navigable waters
of this state and for sediment reuse. The principal of the fund shall consist of the following:
(1) Funds appropriated by any governmental entity. (2) Funds received as gifts from any source.
(c) All funds collected or received by the department for the Navigable...
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22-28A-3
Section 22-28A-3 Regulations, commitments relating to reduction of greenhouse gases.
(a) Effective immediately, the Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management
shall refrain from proposing or promulgating any new regulations intended in whole or in part
to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, as such gases are defined by the Kyoto Protocol,
from the residential, commercial, industrial, electric utility, or transportation sectors
unless such reductions are required under existing statutes. (b) In the absence of a resolution
or other act of the Legislature of the State of Alabama approving same, the Director of the
Alabama Department of Environmental Management shall not submit to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency or to any other agency of the federal government any legally enforceable
commitments related to the reduction of greenhouse gases, as such gases are defined by the
Kyoto Protocol unless such reductions are required under existing statutes. (Act...
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9-10B-26
Section 9-10B-26 Effect of chapter on other state departments and agencies. Nothing
in this chapter shall be interpreted as negating, destroying, impairing, preempting, or superseding
any statutory, common law, or other legal right, duty, power, or authority of the Alabama
Department of Environmental Management, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources, the Alabama Department of Public Health, the Geological Survey of Alabama or any
other agency or department of this state. (Acts 1993, No. 93-44, p. 78, ยง27.)...
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35-19-2
Section 35-19-2 Definitions. The following terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) ACTIVITY AND USE LIMITATIONS. Restrictions or obligations created under this chapter with
respect to real property. (2) AGENCY or DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Environmental
Management. (3) COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITY. A condominium, cooperative, or other real property
with respect to which a person, by virtue of the person's ownership of a parcel of real property,
is obligated to pay property taxes or insurance premiums, or for maintenance, or improvement
of other real property described in a recorded covenant that creates the common interest community.
(4) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management or his or
her designated representative. (5) ENVIRONMENTAL COVENANT. A servitude arising under an environmental
response project that imposes activity and use limitations. (6) ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE PROJECT.
A plan or work performed for environmental remediation...
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