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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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22-30A-5
Section 22-30A-5 Identification of inactive or abandoned sites and liable parties by
director; development and implementation of cleanup plan; public comment period; orders; notice
and hearing; payment and reimbursement of expenses; appeal; recovery of expenses by order
or civil action; penalties. (a) The director shall identify inactive or abandoned hazardous
substance sites, as defined herein, within the State of Alabama. Once identified the director
shall refer to the most current national priorities list ("NPL") of the United States
Environmental Protection Agency under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation
and Liability Act of 1980, ("CERCLA") 42 U.S.C. ยง9601 et seq. Any Alabama site
identified by the director that also appears on the NPL shall not be subject to this chapter,
except for the matching funds provision of Section 22-30A-3(c). (b) For all sites so
identified by the director, not appearing on the NPL, the director shall attempt to identify
all...
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22-27-15
Section 22-27-15 Establishment and review of reduction goals. (a) No later than October
15, 2009, the department shall establish, by rule, a goal for the percentage, on a statewide
basis only, of the reduction in the amount of household and commercial solid waste and the
time frames for that reduction. Reduction, by means including, but not limited to, recycling,
source reduction, waste minimization, reuse, and composting shall be determined at public
solid waste disposal or incineration facilities on a statewide, per capita basis. In order
to evaluate the statewide efforts, the department shall adopt rules for the determination
of the base year data, and reporting requirements by local governing bodies and public solid
waste disposal or incineration facilities, to include both the quantity and origin of the
solid waste disposed or incinerated at such facilities. Notwithstanding anything herein to
the contrary, the reduction goals shall emphasize activities prior to the delivery of...
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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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22-27-5
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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22-27-12
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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22-27-3
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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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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22-22A-4
Section 22-22A-4 Department of Environmental Management created; principal office; director;
deputy director; divisions and division chiefs; transfer of functions; designation as State
Environmental Control Agency, etc.; contract with Health Department for routine bacteriological
analyses. (a) There is hereby created and established the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management to carry out the purposes of this chapter and to administer and enforce the provisions
of this chapter and all functions transferred to the department by this chapter. The department
shall maintain its principal office in the City of Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama.
(b) The department shall be under the supervision and control of an officer who shall be designated
as the director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. The director shall
be an individual knowledgeable and experienced in environmental matters. The director shall
employ such officers, agents and employees as he deems...
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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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