9-8A-11
Section 9-8A-11 Agreement to maintain conservation practices; sale of land with respect to which agreement is in effect. As a condition for receipt of a cost-share grant of allocated funds for soil and water conservation practices, the eligible person receiving the benefit of such grant shall agree to maintain those practices for the expected life of the practice as established by the commission and outlined in the applicable conservation plan. Agreement to maintain practices for which allocated funds are being paid shall be accomplished by completing and signing a maintenance agreement. Specific conditions of the maintenance agreement shall be detailed on a form specified by the commission, and may include provisions for repayment of cost-share grants. Completion of the form and signature of the eligible person is required prior to transfer of the payment from the district to the recipient. Agreements to perform soil and water conservation practices for which allocated funds are being...
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9-16-124
Section 9-16-124 Lands and waters eligible for reclamation. For purposes of this article, lands and water eligible for reclamation or drainage abatement expenditures are those which were mined for coal or which were affected by the mining, wastebanks, coal processing, or other coal mining processes, and abandoned or left in an inadequate reclamation status prior to November 5, 1990, and for which there is no continuing reclamation responsibility under existing state or federal law. (Acts 1981, No. 81-210, p. 254, §5; Acts 1993, No. 93-542, p. 894, §1.)...
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9-16-92
Section 9-16-92 Inspections; authority to inspect records, equipment, premises; etc.; violations; maintenance of records, etc., by permittee; authority to enter upon all lands of the state. (a) For the purpose of developing or assisting in the development, administration, and enforcement of this article or in the administration and enforcement of any permit under this article, or of determining whether any person is in violation of any requirement of this article: (1) The regulatory authority shall require any permittee to (i) establish and maintain appropriate records, (ii) make monthly reports to the regulatory authority, (iii) install, use, and maintain any necessary monitoring equipment or methods, (iv) evaluate results in accordance with such methods, at such locations, intervals, and in such manner as the regulatory authority shall prescribe, and (v) provide such other information relative to surface coal mining and reclamation operations as the regulatory authority deems...
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9-8A-8
Section 9-8A-8 Ineligible lands. Allocated funds shall not be used to reimburse other units of government for implementing soil and water conservation practices. Privately-owned land not used for agricultural or timber production shall not qualify for allocated funds. Tracts of land used for agricultural or timber production smaller than 20 acres in size from which less than $1,000.00 of agricultural products are sold annually shall not qualify for allocated funds. (Acts 1985, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 85-123, p. 169, §10; Acts 1986, No. 86-426, p. 775, §9.)...
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9-10A-1
Section 9-10A-1 Legislative intent. Proper management of the watersheds of the state is necessary to insure the health, safety and welfare of our citizens. Improper land use and water use practices upon our watersheds have caused or contributed to and will continue to cause and contribute to critical flooding, erosion and pollution problems. Proper management of watersheds is necessary to provide an adequate supply of water for residential, agricultural and industrial uses, flood prevention and control, soil erosion prevention and control, agricultural and timber land protection, and wildlife habitat protection. The legislative intent of this chapter is to provide for the establishment of watershed management authorities, and to authorize said entities to protect and manage the watersheds of this state. (Acts 1991, No. 91-602, p. 1119, §1.)...
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9-8A-6
Section 9-8A-6 Application for cost-share grant. In order to qualify for a cost-share grant, an eligible person shall file, accompanied by the applications specified in this section, a conservation plan approved by the soil and water conservation district in which the eligible person's eligible land is located. Cost-share grants shall be available only with respect to those soil and water conservation practices determined to be needed by the soil conservation district to reduce erosion, improve agricultural water quality and improve forest resources in the district. Such determination of need shall be made by a qualified soil and water conservation or forestry technician. All application forms and agreements for allocated funds shall be available from and completed forms shall be submitted to the local soil and water conservation district office located in the county where such practices are proposed to be implemented. If an applicant's land is in more than one soil and water...
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9-16-99
Section 9-16-99 Surface mining operations not subject to this article. The provisions of this article shall not apply to any of the following activities: (1) The extraction of coal by a landowner for his own noncommercial use from land owned or leased by him; (2) For surface mining operations affecting two acres or less, the regulatory authority may waive certain requirements of this article where those requirements will not affect the reclamation of the affected lands; (3) The extraction of coal as an incidental part of federal, state or local government-financed highway or other construction under regulations established by the regulatory authority; (4) The extraction of coal incidental to the extraction of other minerals where coal does not exceed sixteen and two-thirds percent of the tonnage of minerals removed for commercial use or sale pursuant to regulations established by the regulatory authority. (Acts 1981, No. 81-435, p. 682, §31; Acts 1983, No. 83-774, p. 1415, §4.)...
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9-8-23
Section 9-8-23 Creation and incorporation of districts; increase or decrease in boundaries; reorganization; change of name. (a) Any 25 owners of land lying within the limits of the territory proposed to be organized into a district may file a petition with the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee asking that a soil and water conservation district be organized to function in the territory described in the petition. Such petition shall set forth: (1) The proposed name of said district; (2) That there is need in the interest of the public health, safety and welfare for a soil and water conservation district to function in the territory described in the petition; (3) A description of the territory proposed to be organized as a district, which description shall not be required to be given by metes and bounds or by legal subdivisions but shall be deemed sufficient if generally accurate; and (4) A request that the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee duly define the boundaries...
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9-16-81
Section 9-16-81 Licenses required; application; qualifications; fees. (a) All surface coal mining operations shall be subject to this article, except as excluded in Section 9-16-99. (b) No person shall engage in or carry out on lands within the state any surface coal mining operations unless such person is a citizen of the United States or, if not a citizen of the United States, a person who is legally present in the United States with appropriate documentation from the federal government and has first obtained a license in accordance with this section. The term of a license shall be continuous and shall authorize the licensee, subject to the other provisions of this article, to engage in surface coal mining operations unless the license shall be suspended or revoked in accordance with this article. Suspension, revocation, or subcontracting shall in no way relieve the licensee of his or her obligation to comply with the reclamation requirement of this article. (c) An applicant for a...
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9-8A-1
Section 9-8A-1 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise, have the following respective meanings: (1) ALLOCATED FUNDS. That portion of the funds appropriated to the commission that are allocated by the commission to the soil and water conservation district in each county of the state. (2) AUTHORIZED INVESTMENTS. Bonds or other obligations of, or guaranteed by, the United States of America or the state, or interest bearing bank and savings and loan association deposits or obligations, obligations of any agency of the United States of America, any obligations in which a state chartered savings and loan association may invest its funds, any agreement to repurchase any of the foregoing, or any thereof. (3) COMMISSION. The Alabama Agricultural and Conservation Development Commission organized pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution of Alabama...
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