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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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22-30-11
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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22-30-9
Section 22-30-9 General responsibilities of State Department. The responsibilities of
the department include the following: (1) The department may adopt procedures for granting
variances and is empowered to grant such variances. (2) The department, acting through the
commission, may promulgate, and may revise when appropriate, rules and regulations and may
enter into agreements to ensure that information obtained by the department regarding facilities
and sites for the treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous waste is available to the public
in substantially the same manner, and to the same degree, as would be the case under the Federal
Hazardous Waste Management Program administered by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency under authority of the RCRA and shall establish procedures to ensure that trade secrets
used by any person regarding methods of hazardous wastes handling and disposal are utilized
by the department, or any authorized representative of the department,...
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22-27-5
Section 22-27-5 Authority of localities to establish charges, fees, etc., and enter
into mutual agreements or contracts; approval of department; licensing of private or corporate
agencies; permits and bonds; nonpayment of fees, etc. (a) Fees, etc.; mutual agreements or
contracts. The county commission or municipality undertaking the responsibility for providing
services to the public under this article may establish fees, charges and rates and may collect
and disburse funds within cooperating areas or districts, inside or outside the corporate
limits of municipalities or inside or outside of county boundaries, for the specific purpose
of administering this article and providing and operating a solid waste program. Also, said
county commission or public authority may enter into mutual agreements or contracts with the
government bodies of other counties, municipalities, corporations or individuals, where deemed
to be mutually economical and feasible, to jointly or individually collect,...
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22-30B-1.1
Section 22-30B-1.1 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that: (1) The state is
increasingly becoming the nation's final burial ground for the disposal of hazardous wastes
and materials; (2) The volumes of hazardous wastes and substances disposed in the state have
increased dramatically for the past several years; (3) The existence of hazardous waste disposal
activities in the state poses unique and continuing problems for the state; (4) As the site
for the ultimate burial of hazardous wastes and substances, the state incurs a permanent risk
to the health of its people and the maintenance of its natural resources that is avoided by
other states which ship their wastes to Alabama for disposal; (5) The state also incurs other
substantial costs related to hazardous waste management including the costs of regulation
of transportation, spill cleanup and disposal of ever-increasing volumes of hazardous wastes
and substances; (6) Because all waste and substances disposed at commercial...
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22-30-19
Section 22-30-19 Penalties and remedies. (a) Whenever, on the basis of any information,
the department determines that any person is in violation of any requirement of this chapter,
any rule or regulation promulgated by the department or any permit issued under authority
granted by this chapter, the department may issue an order requiring compliance immediately
or within a specified time period, and, in cases where an imminent threat to human health
or the environment is demonstrated, suspend operations causing such threat until the department
determines that adequate steps are being taken to correct such violations. (b) Whenever, on
the basis of any information, the department determines that there is or has been a release
of hazardous waste into the environment from a facility authorized to operate under Section
22-30-12(i), the department may issue an order requiring corrective action or such other response
measure as it deems necessary to protect human health or the environment....
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22-27-90
Section 22-27-90 Definitions. When used herein the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT. Any food service establishment, retail food store,
limited food service establishment, limited retail food store, food processing establishment,
or other place of business where food is prepared or sold or offered for sale, or any establishment
that slaughters, fabricates, bones or processes animals, poultry, or fish, whether or not
required by law to be licensed or permitted by an agency of the State of Alabama. (2) DEPARTMENT.
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management as established by Section 22-22A-4.
(3) DISPOSE. To discard or carry away, whether personally or by and through a contractor,
and whether for the purposes of recycling, reuse, or reprocessing or for ultimate elimination.
(4) INEDIBLE ANIMAL BY-PRODUCT. Any bone, fat, offal, carcass, blood, skin, hide, tallow,
lard, feather, horn, hoof, or any other solid by-product derived from any...
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34-21A-2
Section 34-21A-2 Definitions. The following terms shall have the meanings respectively
ascribed to them as used in this chapter unless the context requires a different meaning:
(1) BOARD. The Alabama Onsite Wastewater Board. (2) CONVENTIONAL ONSITE SEWAGE SYSTEM. An
onsite sewage system consisting of a septic tank, or an Alabama Department of Public Health
approved pretreatment device, with effluent discharging into a subsurface effluent disposal
medium, where all portions of the effluent disposal field sidewalls are installed below the
elevation of undisturbed native soil, including a conventional onsite sewage system as defined
by the Alabama Department of Public Health regulations. (3) ENGINEERED ONSITE SEWAGE SYSTEM.
An onsite sewage system that varies from conventional onsite sewage system equipment, methods,
processes, and installation procedures in accordance with the rules and regulations of the
Alabama Department of Public Health. (4) GOOD STANDING WITH LOCAL HEALTH...
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11-89A-2
Section 11-89A-2 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this chapter,
and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of a clear
implication herein otherwise, be given the following respective interpretations herein: (1)
APPLICANT. A natural person who files a written application with the governing body of any
county or municipality in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-89A-3. (2) AUTHORITY.
Any public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (3) AUTHORIZING
RESOLUTION. A resolution or ordinance adopted by the governing body of any county or municipality
in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-89A-3, that authorizes the incorporation
of an authority. (4) BOARD. The board of directors of an authority. (5) BONDS. Bonds, notes,
or other obligations representing an obligation to pay money. (6) COSTS. As applied to a facility
or any portion thereof, such term shall include all or any part of the cost of...
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