29-1-24
Section 29-1-24 Ozone transport oversight. (a) This section may be referred to as the Ozone Transport Oversight Act of 1997. (b) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds all of the following: (1) The Federal Clean Air Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq., contains a comprehensive regulatory scheme for the control of emissions from mobile and stationary sources. (2) Ozone and other air pollutants have declined substantially during the past 25 years throughout the United States due to implementation of the Clean Air Act, and additional air quality improvements will result as the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments are implemented. (3) The Northeast Ozone Transport Commission ("OTC"), in an effort to remedy the serious ozone nonattainment conditions prevailing in urbanized areas of the Northeast, has proposed emission control requirements for stationary and mobile sources more stringent than those applicable to states outside of the Northeast Ozone Transport Region ("OTR"), including a...
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22-30E-3
Section 22-30E-3 Definitions. Unless otherwise defined in this chapter, the definition of all terms included in Section 22-30-3 shall be applicable to this chapter. Other definitions as necessary may be promulgated as regulations by the department for further implementation of this chapter. Also, as used in this chapter, the following words and terms have the following meanings: (1) ALABAMA LAND RECYCLING AND ECONOMIC REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION. That commission which is created in Section 22-30E-12. (2) APPLICANT. An owner or operator or prospective purchaser of a qualifying property seeking to participate in the voluntary cleanup program established pursuant to this chapter. (3) CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE. A statement prepared by a professional engineer or geologist licensed to practice in the State of Alabama which certifies compliance with a voluntary cleanup plan required by Section 22-30E-9. (4) CLEANUP. For purposes of this chapter, cleanup means the cleaning up, remediation,...
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22-22A-2
Section 22-22A-2 Legislative intent and purposes of chapter. The Legislature finds the resources of the state must be managed in a manner compatible with the environment, and the health and welfare of the citizens of the state. To respond to the needs of its environment and citizens, the state must have a comprehensive and coordinated program of environmental management. It is therefore the intent of the Legislature to improve the ability of the state to respond in an efficient, comprehensive and coordinated manner to environmental problems, and thereby assure for all citizens of the state a safe, healthful and productive environment. (1) To this end an Alabama Department of Environmental Management is created by this chapter within the Executive Branch of State Government in order to effect the grouping of state agencies which have primary responsibility for administering environmental legislation into one department, to promote economy and efficiency in the operation and management...
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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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22-28-23
Section 22-28-23 Local air pollution control programs. (a) Except as provided in this section, it is the intention of this chapter to occupy by preemption the field of air pollution control within all areas of the State of Alabama. However, nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or abrogate any private remedies now available to any person for the alleviation, abatement, control, correction, or prevention of air pollution or restitution for damage resulting therefrom. (b) Subject to the provisions of this section, each municipal governing body which had municipal ordinances in effect on, or before, July 1, 1969, which pertain to air pollution control and which provide for the creation and establishment of an air pollution control board and each county board of health shall have the authority to establish, and thereafter administer, within their jurisdictions, a local air pollution control program which: (1) Provides, subject to subsection (d) of this section, by ordinance,...
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22-28-2
Section 22-28-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) AIR POLLUTION. The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in such quantities and duration as are, or tend to be, injurious to human health or welfare, animal or plant life or property or would interfere with the enjoyment of life or property throughout the state and in such territories of the state as shall be affected thereby. (2) AIR CONTAMINANT. Any solid, liquid or gaseous matter, any odor or any combination thereof, from whatever source. (3) COMMISSION. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (4) PERSON. Any and all persons, natural or artificial, including, but not limited to, any individual, partnership, association, society, joint stock company, firm, company, corporation, institution, trust, estate, or other legal or other business organization or any governmental entity, and any...
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11-54-171
Section 11-54-171 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this article shall, in the absence of clear implication otherwise, be given the following interpretations: (1) APPLICANT. A person who files a written application with the governing body of any municipality in accordance with Section 11-54-173. (2) AUTHORITY. A public corporation organized pursuant to this article. (3) AUTHORIZING MUNICIPALITY. Any municipality the governing body of which shall have adopted an authorizing resolution. (4) AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION. A resolution adopted by the governing body of any municipality in accordance with Section 11-54-173, that authorizes the incorporation of an authority. (5) BOARD. The board of directors of an authority. (6) BONDS. Includes bonds, notes, and certificates representing an obligation to pay money. (7) COUNTY. Any county in the state. (8) DIRECTOR. A member of the board of an authority. (9) GOVERNING BODY. With respect to a municipality, its city or town council,...
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11-54-88
Section 11-54-88 Additional powers as to pollution control facilities. (a)(1) In addition to all other powers at any time conferred on them by law, each industrial development board shall have the following powers: a. To acquire, whether by construction, purchase, exchange, gift, lease, or otherwise and to enlarge, improve, replace, equip, and maintain one or more pollution control facilities, including all real and personal properties deemed necessary or desirable in connection therewith, including the sale and issuance of bonds for any of the said purposes; b. To lease to others and otherwise dispose of all or any portion of any pollution control facility; and c. To exercise with respect to any pollution control facility and each part thereof any and all powers that are conferred on industrial development boards by other provisions of this division. Each pollution control facility so acquired by any industrial development board may be a part of another project or may constitute a...
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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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22-30B-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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