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22-30-16
Section 22-30-16 Responsibilities of hazardous waste storage and treatment facility
and hazardous waste disposal site operators. (a) The department, acting through the commission,
is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations establishing such standards, applicable
to owners and operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal facilities as may
be necessary to protect human health or the environment. In establishing such standards, the
department may, where appropriate, distinguish in such standards between requirements appropriate
for new facilities and for facilities in existence on the date of promulgation of such regulations.
Such standards shall include but not be limited to the following: (1) Unless exempted from
regulation by this chapter or rules promulgated under authority of this chapter, obtaining
a permit from the department or interim status for each treatment, storage or disposal facility;
(2) Assuring that all hazardous wastes are stored, treated or...
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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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22-30-3
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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22-27-3
Section 22-27-3 Authority of local governing bodies as waste collections and disposal;
household exemptions; state regulatory program. (a) Generally. (1) The county commission or
municipal governing body may, and is hereby authorized to, make available to the general public
collection and disposal facilities for solid wastes in a manner acceptable to the department.
The county commission or municipal governing body may provide such collection or disposal
services by contract with private or other controlling agencies and may include house-to-house
service or the placement of regularly serviced and controlled bulk refuse receptacles within
reasonable (generally less than eight miles) distance from the farthest affected household
and the wastes managed in a manner acceptable to the department. (2) Any county commission
or municipal governing body providing services to the public under this article shall have
the power and authority by resolution or ordinance to adopt rules and...
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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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22-30A-8
Section 22-30A-8 Liability for hazardous substance sites; action by department or Attorney
General to recover expenses; administrative order or civil action; for what costs fund may
be reimbursed; contributions among liable parties; declaratory judgment action to determine
apportionment. (a) Liable parties shall be liable to the state for amounts expended for the
investigation, identification, containment and cleanup of hazardous substance sites, including
the cost of post-cleanup monitoring and maintenance of such sites. (b) The department or the
Attorney General shall act to recover for the fund the reasonable and necessary amounts expended
for the investigation, identification, containment, cleanup, monitoring and maintenance of
inactive or abandoned hazardous substance sites to the extent the department or the Attorney
General can attribute these expenditures to liable parties as set out herein. Recovery of
these expenditures by the department or the Attorney General can be either...
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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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22-30-12
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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45-29-90.11
Section 45-29-90.11 Regulation of zoning, planning, and construction. For the purpose
of promoting the health, safety, morals, convenience, environment order, prosperity, and general
welfare, all power and authority regarding zoning and planning within the management area
is hereby vested in the board of directors of the authority. As described herein, no regulated
activity shall commence without the applicant having first obtained a land use certificate
as issued by the authority. (1) The board is authorized to regulate the planning, zoning,
and construction within the management area of all activity involving public streets, public
roads, subdivisions, drainage structures in subdivisions, mobile home parks, residential and
commercial developments, apartments, recreation parks, coal mining, gas/oil and methane exploration
and development, excavation, and logging. The board is hereby authorized to adopt and enforce
such ordinances as shall be necessary to implement any development...
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11-50-340
Section 11-50-340 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and terms
shall have the following meanings unless the context shall indicate another meaning or intent:
(1) CITY. Any incorporated city in the State of Alabama. (2) COUNCIL. The city council, city
commission, or other board or body in which the general legislative powers of a city shall
be vested. (3) BOARD. A board of water and sewer commissioners created under the provisions
of Section 11-50-341 or, if any such board shall be abolished, the board, body, or
commission succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to which the powers given by this
article to such board shall be given by law. (4) WATER SYSTEM. Such term shall include all
plants, systems, facilities, or properties used or useful or having the present capacity for
future use in connection with the supply or distribution of water, and any integral part thereof,
including but not limited to water supply systems, water distribution systems,...
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