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22-27-12
Section 22-27-12 Powers of department. The department may do the following: (1) Adopt rules
to implement this article. (2) Adopt rules establishing requirements and restrictions for
the management of solid waste, excluding the collection and transportation of nonhazardous
and nonmedical solid waste. The rules may include factors such as the characteristics of the
solid waste, the potential for contamination of soils or ground and surface waters, the design
and operation of management facilities, the financial capabilities of the applicant, soil
and geological considerations, human health, and other environmental considerations. With
respect to solid waste disposal or materials recovery facilities, the rules may also include
factors such as the quantity, nature, and origin of solid wastes and recovered materials to
be managed. The department may condition the issuance of a permit for any solid waste management
or materials recovery facility upon the facility being consistent with...
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22-27-18
Section 22-27-18 Solid Waste Fund; Alabama Recycling Fund. (a) There are established separate
special revenue trust funds in the State Treasury to be known as the Solid Waste Fund (SWF)
and the Alabama Recycling Fund (ARF). These funds shall be used for the purposes set forth
in this article and for no other governmental purposes, nor shall any portion hereof ever
be available to borrow from by any branch of government, it being the intent of the Legislature
that these funds and their increments shall remain intact and inviolate for the purposes set
out in this article. Any interest or earnings on the funds shall be credited only to the funds.
(b) The funds shall be audited annually by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts.
(c) No funds shall be withdrawn or expended from the funds created in subdivision (a) except
as budgeted and allotted according to Sections 41-4-80 to 41-4-96, inclusive, and 41-19-1
to 41-19-12, inclusive, and only in amounts as stipulated in the general...
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45-42-170.20
Section 45-42-170.20 Solid waste landfill location and operation. (a) In addition to any other
provision of law or any rule or regulation by the state or federal government or local government
in Limestone County, and specifically Chapter 27, Title 22, as amended, relating to the regulation,
operation, or location of any privately-owned or controlled regional landfill for solid waste,
the Limestone County Commission shall provide for a referendum on the question of the location,
acceptance, or operation of such privately owned or controlled regional landfill for solid
waste after the public hearing thereon. The referendum shall be held within 20 days but not
less than 10 days after such public hearing. Such referendum shall be held pursuant to the
general laws of the state calling for local elections except where there is a direct conflict
herewith. (b) If a majority of the qualified electorate voting on the proposed acceptance,
operation, or location of a privately-owned or controlled...
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22-27-41
Section 22-27-41 Legislative purpose. The purpose of this article is to protect the public
health and the state's environmental quality and to serve the public by recognizing the responsibilities
of units of local government for the orderly management of solid wastes generated within their
jurisdictions, and to require that decisions about the management of solid wastes shall be
based on comprehensive local, regional and state planning. The terms and obligations of this
article shall be liberally construed to achieve remedies intended. (Acts 1989, No. 89-824,
p. 1638, ยง2.)...
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22-27-7
Section 22-27-7 Supervision and regulatory control; rules and regulations; penalty for violation
of article. With regard to the collection of solid wastes, the Health Department shall exercise
such supervision over equipment, methodology and personnel in the management of solid wastes
as may be necessary to enforce sanitary requirements, and the state and county boards of health
may adopt such rules and regulations as may be needed to specify methodology and procedures
to meet the requirements of this article. With regard to the disposal of solid wastes, the
department shall exercise such regulatory control over the management of solid wastes as may
be necessary to enforce the requirements of the department, and the department may adopt such
rules and regulations as may be needed to meet the requirements of this article. Any person
violating any provision of this article or any rule or regulation made pursuant to this article
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall...
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22-30-10
Section 22-30-10 Development and revision of criteria for determining hazardous wastes. (a)
The department, acting through the commission, shall promulgate and revise criteria for identifying
hazardous waste. (b) When developing these criteria, the department shall determine whether
the concentrations being disposed of present immediate or persistent toxic hazards to human
health or the environment, or the resistance of such wastes to natural degradation or detoxification
and/or whether such wastes are bioconcentrative, ignitable, reactive, toxic, irritating, corrosive
or infectious in addition to any hazardous characteristics. (c) The department shall compile,
and revise from time to time thereafter, a listing of solid wastes which have been determined
to be hazardous by using these criteria. Unless specifically excluded, all solid wastes identified
as hazardous by application of the criteria are hazardous wastes and must be managed in accordance
with this chapter and the regulations...
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45-49-252
Section 45-49-252 Definitions. The following words, phases, or terms as used in this part,
unless the context indicates otherwise, shall have the following meanings: (1) ABANDONED PROPERTY.
Wrecked or derelict property having no value other than nominal salvage value, if any, which
has been left abandoned and unprotected from the elements and shall include wrecked, inoperative,
or partially dismantled motor vehicles, trailers, boats, machinery, refrigerators, washing
machines, plumbing fixtures, and other similar articles which have no value other than nominal
salvage value, if any; and is in a condition violative of Alabama statutes. (2) ADMINISTRATIVE
DEPARTMENT. The department charged by the Mobile County Commission with the administrative
management of this part. (3) COMMISSION. The Mobile County Commission of Mobile County, Alabama.
(4) BULKY WASTE. Items whose large size precludes or complicates their handling by normal
collection, processing, or disposal methods. (5) BUNDLE. A...
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22-30-2
Section 22-30-2 Legislative findings; purpose and intent of chapter. The Legislature finds
that the generation and management of hazardous waste is a continuing problem. Further, that
without adequate safeguards, the generation, transportation, treatment, storage and disposal
of such wastes can create conditions which threaten human health or the environment. The Legislature,
therefore, declares that in order to minimize and control any such hazardous conditions, it
is in the public interest to establish and to maintain a statewide program, administered by
the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, to provide for the safe management of
hazardous wastes. It is the intent of the Legislature that the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management seek and retain authorization to operate the State Hazardous Waste Management Program.
It is also the intent of the Legislature that the rules, regulations, guidelines and criteria
promulgated under authority of this chapter encourage...
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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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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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