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9-10B-24
Section 9-10B-24 Alabama Water Resources Council established; composition of members;
advisory capacity. There is hereby established the Alabama Water Resources Council. The Water
Resources Council shall act in an advisory capacity to the Office of Water Resources and shall
be comprised of one representative appointed by each of the following entities: The Alabama
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management, the Alabama Department of Public Health, the Soil and Water Conservation Committee,
the Alabama State Port Authority, the Geological Survey of Alabama, and the Water Resource
Research Institute. From time to time, the division chief may request any other state agency
to appoint a representative to the Water Resources Council. The Water Resources Council shall
advise the Office of Water Resources on all matters concerning the waters of the state. (Acts
1993, No. 93-44, p. 78, ยง25.)...
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45-43-170.03
Section 45-43-170.03 Solid waste disposal - Definitions. As used in this article, the
following words shall have the following meanings respectively ascribed to them unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BURNING. No garbage or rubbish containing garbage
or other putrescible materials or hazardous wastes shall be burned except in approved incinerators
meeting the regulations of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management requirements
and air pollution controls as now established or as may later be established. The open burning
of rubbish shall be permitted only under sharply controlled circumstances where sanitary landfill
or landfill is not feasible and not in proximity to sanitary landfill or landfill operations
where spread of fire to these operations may be a hazard in the opinion of the department.
(2) DEPARTMENT. Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (3) EXCEPTION. A person, household,
business, industry, or any property owner may store, haul, and...
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22-30D-3
Section 22-30D-3 Definitions. Unless otherwise defined in this chapter, the definitions
of terms included in Section 22-30-3 shall be applicable to this chapter. For the purposes
of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) ABANDONED DRYCLEANING
FACILITY. Any real property premises or individual leasehold space located in this state owned
by any person in which a drycleaning facility or wholesale distribution facility formerly
operated; provided, however, that any owner or operator or wholesale distributor who shall
have elected not to be covered by the provisions of this chapter shall not be considered a
person owning or leasing such a facility for the purposes of this chapter. (2) ADJACENT LAND
OWNER. Any owner, lessor, or mortgagee of any real property onto which contamination from
a drycleaning facility, abandoned drycleaning facility, or wholesale distribution facility
of any owner or operator or wholesale distributor who shall have elected to be covered...
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22-22A-16
Section 22-22A-16 Pollution Control Grant Fund. (a) There is hereby created a fund known
as the Pollution Control Grant Fund. This fund shall consist of (1) All appropriations made
to the fund; and (2) All grants, gifts, bequests or donations made to the fund from any source
whatsoever. This fund shall be used and expended by the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management in accordance with the terms of the appropriation, gift, bequest, grant or donation
from which said moneys are derived and in the absence of such terms or stipulations, shall
be expended by said department in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b). All necessary
expenses of said department in implementing the provisions of this section shall likewise
be paid out of the fund on the requisition of the director of said department as may be deemed
advisable. (b) Except as provided in subsection (a), the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management is authorized to make grants to any county, municipality or...
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22-22A-2
Section 22-22A-2 Legislative intent and purposes of chapter. The Legislature finds the
resources of the state must be managed in a manner compatible with the environment, and the
health and welfare of the citizens of the state. To respond to the needs of its environment
and citizens, the state must have a comprehensive and coordinated program of environmental
management. It is therefore the intent of the Legislature to improve the ability of the state
to respond in an efficient, comprehensive and coordinated manner to environmental problems,
and thereby assure for all citizens of the state a safe, healthful and productive environment.
(1) To this end an Alabama Department of Environmental Management is created by this chapter
within the Executive Branch of State Government in order to effect the grouping of state agencies
which have primary responsibility for administering environmental legislation into one department,
to promote economy and efficiency in the operation and management...
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22-27-49
Section 22-27-49 Moratorium on issuance of permits. (a) For the purpose of evaluating
solid waste management problems facing the state and to allow for the development of comprehensive
plans to identify and provide for the state's solid waste management needs, there is hereby
imposed a moratorium on the issuance by the Department of Environmental Management of any
new or modified permits or transfers of existing permits for solid waste management facilities
which receive or are intended to receive wastes not generated by the permittee. Said moratorium
shall not apply to industrial landfills receiving waste generated in state only by the permittee.
Modifications for the limited purposes of changing liner and leachate collection design, changes
in waste streams from within the facility's designated service area, changes in sequence of
fill, and changes to incorporate new technology, or changes intended to bring a facility into
compliance with statutes and regulations are specifically...
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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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23-1-50.1
Section 23-1-50.1 Road machinery and equipment management program; Equipment Management
Surplus Reserve Account. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to give the State Department
of Transportation authority to accumulate depreciation, equipment replacement allowances,
and salvage value on road machinery and equipment sufficient to upgrade, replace, or make
extraordinary repairs to the road machinery and equipment of the State Department of Transportation,
as determined by a road machinery and equipment management program to be developed by the
department. (b) Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following words and phrases
will have the following meanings: (1) STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DIVISIONS. Those
divisions of the Department of Transportation responsible for road construction and maintenance
over a specified geographic area of the state. (2) DEPRECIATION. That process of allocating
the original cost per fixed asset over the productive life of the asset...
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41-16-72
Section 41-16-72 Procurement of professional services. Any other provision of law notwithstanding,
the procurement of professional services by any agency, department, board, bureau, commission,
authority, public corporation, or instrumentality of the State of Alabama shall be conducted
through the following selection process: (1)a. Except as otherwise provided herein, attorneys
retained to represent the state in litigation shall be appointed by the Attorney General in
consultation with the Governor from a listing of attorneys maintained by the Attorney General.
All attorneys interested in representing the State of Alabama may apply and shall be included
on the listing. The selection of the attorney or law firm shall be based upon the level of
skill, experience, and expertise required in the litigation and the fees charged by the attorney
or law firm shall be taken into consideration so that the State of Alabama receives the best
representation for the funds paid. Fees shall be...
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45-40-250
Section 45-40-250 Transfer of water from Tennessee River Basin. (a) This section
shall apply only in Lawrence County. (b) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds the
following: (1) It is in the best interest of the State of Alabama and the people of Lawrence
County to protect the Tennessee River and its watershed to promote the beneficial purposes
of maintaining a clean drinking water supply, hydroelectric power generation, navigation,
industry, agriculture, environmental quality, and recreation. (2) The Tennessee River has
been identified by the people of Alabama and the nation as a unique resource lying in seven
states and by Congress through the establishment of a special authority known as the Tennessee
Valley Authority (TVA) for the promotion of the best interests of the Tennessee Valley. (3)
That it is in the best interest of the people of the State of Alabama and Lawrence County
to protect and preserve the Tennessee River as set forth in this section in the absence
of...
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