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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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22-30-12
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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22-30-15
Section 22-30-15 Regulations as to transporters. Subject to Section 22-30-21, the department,
acting through the commission, is authorized to promulgate regulations establishing such standards,
applicable to transporters of hazardous waste identified or listed under this chapter, as
may be necessary to protect human health or the environment. 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;
(2) Completing the manifest form in conjunction with the generator; (3) Assuring that all
hazardous wastes are transported to the permitted or interim status hazardous waste treatment,
storage facility or disposal facility or alternate facility designated on the manifest or,
if rejected by such facility, returned to the generator; (4) Maintaining records of hazardous
waste transported, and their source and delivery points; and (5)...
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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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22-27-2
Section 22-27-2 Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) AGENCY. Any controlling agency,
public or private, elected, appointed, or volunteer utilizing methods approved by the health
department or the department for the purpose of controlling and supervising the collection
or management of solid wastes or recyclable materials. (2) ALTERNATIVE COVER. Material other
than earth used to cover a landfill or sanitary landfill. An alternative cover shall be approved
by the Department of Environmental Management in compliance with federal law and United States
Environmental Protection Agency rules or guidance to achieve a level of performance equal
to or greater than earthen cover material. (3) ASHES. The solid residue from burning of wood,
coal, coke, or other combustible material used for heating, from incineration of solid wastes,
or for the production of electricity at electric generating...
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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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22-35-4
Section 22-35-4 Alabama Underground and Aboveground Storage Tank Trust Fund. There is hereby
created the Alabama Underground and Aboveground Storage Tank Trust Fund, hereinafter referred
to as the "fund," to be administered by the Secretary-Treasurer of the Retirement
Systems of Alabama. The fund shall be used by the department as a revolving fund for carrying
out the purposes of this chapter. The fund is not an insurance company and the laws relating
to the conduct of business in this state by an insurance company do not apply to the fund.
A decision that underground or aboveground storage tanks are ineligible for benefits under
the fund does not expose the fund, the director, department, or commission to a claim of bad
faith as such terms are used in general insurance law. Further, in no event shall combined
claims against the fund for payment of response actions and third-party claims exceed the
per occurrence indemnification limit set by the commission. Under no circumstances shall...
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22-50-11
Section 22-50-11 Department - Additional and cumulative powers. The Department of Mental Health
is given hereby the following additional and cumulative powers through its commissioner: (1)
It is authorized and directed to set up state plans for the purpose of controlling and treating
any and all forms of mental and emotional illness and any and all forms of mental retardation
and shall divide the state into regions, districts, areas or zones, which need not be geographic
areas, but shall be areas for the purpose of establishing priorities and programs and for
organizational and administrative purposes in accordance with these state plans. (2) It is
designated and authorized to supervise, coordinate, and establish standards for all operations
and activities of the state related to mental health and the providing of mental health services;
and it is authorized to receive and administer any funds available from any source for the
purpose of acquiring building sites for, constructing,...
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22-30D-7
Section 22-30D-7 Expenditure of funds. (a) Prior to the approval of an expenditure of any funds
under this chapter with respect to payment for costs incurred for investigation, assessment,
and, if necessary, remediation at a particular site, every owner or operator covered by this
chapter, person owning any abandoned drycleaning facility eligible for coverage by this chapter,
or impacted third party filing a request with the board for payment, shall accept responsibility
for the first ten thousand dollars ($10,000), as a deductible amount, of the actual costs
to be incurred with that particular site. Each wholesale distributor covered by this chapter
shall accept responsibility for the first fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), as a deductible
amount, of the actual cost to be incurred with a wholesale distribution facility. An adjacent
landowner shall not be required to accept responsibility for any costs incurred at a site.
(b) Payments from the fund may be obtained from the board by...
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45-49-252.14
Section 45-49-252.14 Certain acts and practices prohibited. (a) It shall be unlawful to dispose
of solid waste except by sanitary landfill, incineration, recycling process, or other method
approved by the director, consistent with applicable state law, operated by the county or
permitted and possessing certificates of need as required herein. (b) It shall be unlawful
to allow an unauthorized accumulation of rubbish, yard trash, garbage, and putrescible waste
on any residential or commercial premises not engaged in a salvaging operation. (c) It shall
be unlawful for any person other than the owner or collector, or his or her agent, or employees
to collect refuse or to interfere in any manner with any such receptacles from the place where
the same are placed by the owner or person lawfully in control thereof, or to remove the contents
of such receptacles. (d) No person shall place any refuse in any street, alley, or other public
place, or upon private property, whether owned by such...
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