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9-16-90
Section 9-16-90 Environmental protection performance standards. (a) Any permit issued
pursuant to this article to conduct surface mining operations shall require that such surface
coal mining operations will meet all applicable performance standards of this article, and
such other requirements as the regulatory authority shall promulgate. (b) General performance
standards shall be applicable to all surface coal mining and reclamation operations and shall
require the operation as a minimum to: (1) Conduct surface coal mining operations so as to
maximize the utilization and conservation of the solid fuel resource being recovered so that
reaffecting the land in the future through surface coal mining can be minimized; (2) Restore
the land affected to a condition capable of supporting the uses which it was capable of supporting
prior to any mining, or higher or better uses of which there is reasonable likelihood, so
long as such use or uses do not present any actual or probable hazard to...
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22-30D-4
Section 22-30D-4 Election of coverage; administration of chapter; rules and regulations.
(a)(1) All owners and operators and all wholesale distributors shall elect by May 24, 2001,
to be covered or not to be covered by this chapter and shall do so by notifying the department
in writing that such owner or operator or wholesale distributor elects to be covered or not
to be covered by this chapter. Following May 24, 2001, any owner or operator or wholesale
distributor who may have initially elected not to be covered by this chapter or who may have
inadvertently failed to notify the department may notify the department that such owner or
operator or wholesale distributor has reconsidered and desires to be covered by the fund,
but any such owner or operator or wholesale distributor shall, with its notice of request
for coverage, be required to pay to the Department of Revenue the registration fees which
would otherwise have been due to the fund had such owner or operator or wholesale...
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22-30-11
Section 22-30-11 Adoption of regulations, guidelines, criteria and standards by State
Department; states from which hazardous wastes cannot be accepted; penalty; contracts to satisfy
federal capacity assurance programs limited. (a) The department, acting through the commission,
is authorized to promulgate, and may revise when appropriate, rules and regulations, guidelines,
criteria and standards for all hazardous waste management practices. (b) It is unlawful for
any person who owns or operates a commercial hazardous waste treatment or disposal facility
within this state to dispose or treat any hazardous wastes generated in any state outside
the State of Alabama which: (1) Prohibits by law or regulation the treatment or disposal of
hazardous wastes within that state and which has no facility permitted or existing within
that state for the treatment or disposal of hazardous wastes; or (2) Has no facility permitted
or existing within that state for the treatment or disposal of hazardous...
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22-30-12
Section 22-30-12 Permit program. (a) The department, acting through the commission,
is authorized to promulgate a permit program for hazardous waste management practices and,
acting through the commission, to promulgate criteria for issuing permits and rules identifying
procedures for obtaining permits. (b) Except as provided by this subsection or subsections
(i) and (j) of this section, no person shall engage in the transportation, treatment,
storage or disposal of hazardous waste without having applied for and obtained a permit from
the department issued under authority of this section. The department, acting through
the commission, may promulgate rules which exempt certain hazardous waste management practices
from the requirement to obtain a permit under this section. (c) Unless specifically
exempted from regulation by this chapter or rules promulgated under authority of this chapter,
no person may commence or continue construction or operation of any hazardous waste treatment,...
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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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22-30-4
Section 22-30-4 Regulatory and investigative authority; monitoring of commercial sites
for hazardous wastes; fees; hearings and investigations. (a) The department has exclusive
regulatory authority over all hazardous waste generation, transportation, storage, treatment
and disposal and other management practices in the state, and shall, from time to time, investigate
and monitor sources of generation, transportation, storage, treatment and disposal of hazardous
waste. However, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit the authority of the Alabama
Department of Public Health to regulate wastes containing radioactive materials under Chapter
14 of this title. (b) In exercising such exclusive authority, the department shall provide
sufficient personnel with training in hazardous waste management and a minimum of a bachelor's
degree in the sciences or engineering to comprehensively monitor all commercial sites for
the disposal of hazardous wastes. Such personnel shall be hired by...
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22-30-18
Section 22-30-18 Reporting of wastes generated; when reports deemed trade secrets. Every
generator, transporter, and owner and operator of a treatment, storage or disposal facility
of hazardous wastes shall establish and maintain such records for a three-year period, make
such reports and furnish such information pertaining to the generation, transportation, treatment,
storage or disposal of said waste, and install, use and maintain such monitoring equipment
or methods, sample such wastes, materials, soils or waters, in accordance with such methods
and procedures, at such locations and times, as the department shall require. The retention
period for all records required to be maintained by this chapter or rules and regulations
promulgated under this chapter is automatically extended during the period of any unresolved
enforcement action regarding the facility or as requested by the department. Any records,
reports or information obtained under this chapter shall be available to the...
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22-27-9
Section 22-27-9 Authority of Department of Environmental Management and Department of
Public Health. (a) The Department of Environmental Management shall be the agency with primary
regulatory authority over the management of solid waste in the state, except for the collection
and transportation of nonhazardous and nonmedical solid waste. The department may exercise
the regulatory authority over the permitting and operation of solid waste management facilities
necessary to enforce the requirement and purposes of this article. (b) The Alabama Department
of Public Health shall have primary regulatory authority over the collection and transportation
of solid waste, excluding medical waste and hazardous waste, the management of sanitary waste
in septic tanks, excluding landfill disposal, and the management of collection activities
including, but not limited to, the provision of collection services by county and municipal
governing bodies, participation in local collection systems, the...
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22-30B-2.2
Section 22-30B-2.2 Pledge and appropriation of funds for Public Health Finance Authority.
For the purpose of providing funds, not to exceed $4,500,000.00 during any fiscal year of
the state, for the Alabama Public Health Finance Authority to pay at their respective maturities
the principal of premiums, if any, and interest on any bonds issued by it under the provisions
of Sections 22-3A-1 to 22-3A-24, inclusive, there is hereby irrevocably pledged for said above
purpose and hereby appropriated the annual amount necessary, not to exceed $4,500,000.00 during
any fiscal year of the state, from the first receipts after payment of any guarantees in Section
22-30B-2.1 of the fees that are levied on the disposal of waste, hazardous waste or hazardous
substances pursuant to this act and that were not theretofore appropriated and paid into the
General Fund of the State of Alabama (i.e., the amount resulting from the additional fee of
$72.00 per ton for all waste or substances disposed of at...
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22-30B-2.4
Section 22-30B-2.4 Restrictions on disposal of hazardous waste; exceptions. No commercial
site for the disposal of hazardous waste and hazardous substances shall during any calendar
year receive and dispose of more than 600,000 tons of waste that cannot be legally disposed
of in a solid waste landfill permitted under Subtitle D of RCRA 42 U.S.C. ยง6941. Provided,
however, that the Environmental Management Commission or its designee may allow the disposal
of hazardous wastes in excess of the 600,000 ton annual limitation of volume imposed in this
section if such action is determined by the Environmental Management Commission or
its designee to be necessary to protect human health or the environment in the state. Provided
further, if the commission determines that public awareness of environmental matters may be
enhanced by special events or if amnesty or similar programs will promote the protection of
human health and the environment of Alabama, then it may exempt any wastes so...
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