45-49-255.02
Section 45-49-255.02 Solid waste management advisory board. (a) There is created a solid waste management advisory board consisting of 11 members: One shall be a member of the County Commission of Mobile County, Alabama, one shall be the solid waste coordinator, two shall be appointed by the senators of the Mobile County Legislative Delegation, two shall be appointed by the representatives of the Mobile County Legislative Delegation, one at large shall be appointed by all other appointees, one shall be appointed by the Sheriff of Mobile County, one shall be appointed by the County Commissioner of District 1, one shall be appointed by the County Commissioner of District 2, and one shall be appointed by the County Commissioner of District 3. All members shall reside in the unincorporated area of Mobile County. (b) The solid waste management advisory board members shall serve for a term of four years; provided, however, in the initial term the member from the county commission shall serve...
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22-27-5.2
Section 22-27-5.2 Solid waste landfill moratorium. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law, until May 31, 2014, neither the department nor any state or local agency may grant any new permits to a new public solid waste landfill facility which is intended to receive waste not generated by the permittee. (2) The moratorium period is necessary in order to allow the department and the Alabama Department of Public Health to review their duties and responsibilities pursuant to the Solid Wastes and Recyclable Materials Management Act. As appropriate, following this review, the department, with input from the Alabama Department of Public Health, shall make recommendations for necessary legislation or undertake rulemaking to implement enhancement identified during the review period. (3) For the purpose of evaluating solid waste landfill management issues facing the state and to allow for the update of the state's comprehensive solid waste management plan to identify and provide for the...
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45-49-252.15
Section 45-49-252.15 Inspections. In order to insure compliance with this part and the laws of this state, the director or his or her agents, or the health officer and his or her agents, are authorized to inspect, at reasonable times, all phases of solid waste management within Mobile County. (Act 81-450, p. 773, §16.)...
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22-27-49
Section 22-27-49 Moratorium on issuance of permits. (a) For the purpose of evaluating solid waste management problems facing the state and to allow for the development of comprehensive plans to identify and provide for the state's solid waste management needs, there is hereby imposed a moratorium on the issuance by the Department of Environmental Management of any new or modified permits or transfers of existing permits for solid waste management facilities which receive or are intended to receive wastes not generated by the permittee. Said moratorium shall not apply to industrial landfills receiving waste generated in state only by the permittee. Modifications for the limited purposes of changing liner and leachate collection design, changes in waste streams from within the facility's designated service area, changes in sequence of fill, and changes to incorporate new technology, or changes intended to bring a facility into compliance with statutes and regulations are specifically...
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22-30A-2
Section 22-30A-2 Definitions. When used in this chapter and except where the context prohibits, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CLEANUP. All activities including administrative activities related to the identification, investigation and evaluation of hazardous substance sites and the removal of hazardous substances or other closure or containment of hazardous substances and any subsequent monitoring of such sites. (2) COMMISSION. The Alabama Environmental Management Commission as created by Section 22-22A-6. (3) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management as created by Section 22-22A-4. (4) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (5) FUND. The Alabama Hazardous Substance Cleanup Fund. (6) HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE. Any substance defined as a hazardous substance pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §9601(14) or listed as a hazardous waste pursuant to the Hazardous Wastes Management Act, Section 22-30-1 et seq. and...
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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. §6941. 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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45-43-170.05
Section 45-43-170.05 Solid waste disposal - Management and enforcement. With regard to the collection of solid wastes, the health department shall exercise such supervision over equipment, methodology, and personnel in the management of solid wastes as may be necessary to enforce sanitary requirements, and the state and county boards of health may adopt such rules and regulations as may be needed to specify methodology and procedures to meet the requirements of this article. With regard to the disposal of solid wastes, the department shall exercise such regulatory control over the management of solid wastes as may be necessary to enforce the requirements of the department, and the department may adopt such rules and regulations as may be needed to meet the requirements of this article. Any person violating this article or any rule or regulation made pursuant to this article shall be guilty of a violation and, upon conviction, shall be fined as provided by state law and not less than...
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22-25B-1
Section 22-25B-1 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ADEM. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (2) ADPH. The Alabama Department of Public Health. (3) CERTIFICATE OF ECONOMIC VIABILITY. The certification by the commission of the financial viability of a wastewater management entity's financial viability pursuant to this chapter. (4) CLUSTER WASTEWATER SYSTEM. An integrated wastewater collection system or treatment system, or both, or multiple systems serving a single development or contiguous developments, which collectively have a design flow of 15,000 GPD or less, and is designed and permitted for discharge of the treated wastewater to a subsurface distribution system, but excluding systems that discharge directly to surface waters of the state. The system must be designed by and certified by a licensed professional engineer to comply with design and permit...
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22-28-21
Section 22-28-21 Air pollution emergencies. (a) Any other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding, if the director finds that a generalized condition of air pollution exists and that it creates an emergency requiring immediate action to protect human health or safety, the director shall order persons causing or contributing to the air pollution to reduce or discontinue immediately the emission of air contaminants, and such order shall fix a place and time, not later than 24 hours thereafter, for a hearing to be held before the Environmental Management Commission. Not more than 24 hours after the commencement of such hearing, and without adjournment thereof, the Environmental Management Commission shall affirm, modify or set aside the order of the director. (b) In the absence of a generalized condition of air pollution of the type referred to in subsection (a) of this section, but if the director finds that emissions from the operation of one or more air contaminants sources...
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39-6-1
Section 39-6-1 Radioactive fallout protection to be incorporated in planning and construction of certain state funded public buildings or structures; powers and duties of State Building Commission as to certification of planning or construction of same and granting of exemptions from provisions of section. (a) Wherever used in this section, unless a different meaning clearly appears in the context, the following terms shall be given the following respective interpretations: (1) PUBLIC BUILDING or STRUCTURE. All buildings constructed for any department, agency, board, commission, council or authority of the State of Alabama, including public school buildings or structures and public buildings or structures of universities and colleges, including any additions to existing buildings or structures. (2) STATE BUILDING COMMISSION. The building commission of 1945. (3) RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT PROTECTION. The minimum space and fallout protection criteria recommended by the Office of Civil Defense,...
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