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9-7-20
Section 9-7-20 Requirements as to permits generally; regulation of uses of lands within coastal
area by local government units; filing with board copies of applications for federal permits.
(a) It is the intent and purpose of this section to avoid duplication whenever possible as
to managing activities within the coastal area and yet assure compliance with the management
program established by the board. (b) The department shall review the permitting activities
of persons within the coastal area in order to insure consistency with the coastal area management
program and where necessary to issue permits to persons to insure compliance and consistency
with said program. No agency can issue a permit for any activity in the coastal area that
the Department of Environmental Management finds to be inconsistent with the coastal area
management program. (c) There may well be uses of certain lands included within the boundaries
of the coastal area which will not have a "direct and significant"...
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9-7-10
Section 9-7-10 Definitions. The following terms, whenever used in this chapter shall have the
following respective meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) COASTAL
AREA. The coastal waters, including the lands therein and thereunder, and the adjacent shorelands,
including the waters therein and thereunder, strongly influenced by each and in proximity
to the shorelines of Alabama and including transitional and intertidal areas, salt marshes,
wetlands, and beaches. The area extends seaward to the outer limit of the United States territorial
sea and extends inland from the shorelines only to the extent necessary to control shorelands,
the uses of which have a direct and significant impact on the coastal waters. (2) COASTAL
WATERS. Those waters, adjacent to the shoreline, which contain a measurable quantity or percentage
of sea water, including but not limited to, sounds, bays, lagoons, bayous, ponds and estuaries.
(3) ESTUARY. That part of a river or stream or other...
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9-18-1
Section 9-18-1 Enactment of Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact. The Southern Interstate Nuclear
Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the state of Alabama with any and all
states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as
follows: "SOUTHERN INTERSTATE NUCLEAR COMPACT "Article I. Policy and Purpose "The
party states recognize that the proper employment of nuclear energy, facilities, materials,
and products can assist substantially in the industrialization of the south and the development
of a balanced economy for the region. They also recognize that optimum benefit from and acquisition
of nuclear resources and facilities requires systematic encouragement, guidance, and assistance
from the party states on a cooperative basis. It is the policy of the party states to undertake
such cooperation on a continuing basis; it is the purpose of this compact to provide the instruments
and framework for such a cooperative effort to improve...
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9-18A-1
Section 9-18A-1 Enactment of Southern States Energy Compact. The Legislature hereby enacts,
and the State of Alabama hereby enters into, the Southern States Energy Compact with any and
all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially
as follows: "SOUTHERN STATES ENERGY COMPACT "Article I. Policy and Purpose. "The
party states recognize that the proper employment and conservation of energy and employment
of energy-related facilities, materials, and products, within the context of a responsible
regard for the environment, can assist substantially in the industrialization of the south
and the development of a balanced economy for the region. They also recognize that optimum
benefit from an acquisition of energy resources and facilities require systematic encouragement,
guidance and assistance from the party states on a cooperative basis. It is the policy of
the party states to undertake such cooperation on a continuing basis; it is the purpose of...
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9-7-15
Section 9-7-15 Coastal Area Board - Development of coastal area management program. The board
shall provide for the development of a comprehensive coastal area management program. The
program shall be prepared in cooperation with local, regional, state and federal interests.
The inland boundaries of the coastal area subject to the management program are described
as follows: begin at the southernmost point on the Mississippi-Alabama state line where the
land surface elevation reaches 10 feet above mean sea level and continue in a general easterly
direction along the 10-foot contour to the proximity of Mobile Bay; continue in a northerly
direction on the 10-foot contour along the western shore of Mobile Bay and the Mobile River
delta to the north line of Mobile County; thence southeastward along the north line of Mobile
County to the intersection with the Baldwin County lines in the Mobile River; thence along
the west and north lines of Baldwin County in the Mobile and Alabama Rivers to...
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9-7-13
Section 9-7-13 Activities deemed permissible uses within coastal area; determination of additional
permissible uses. (a) The Legislature of Alabama finds that the following activities shall
constitute permissible uses within the coastal area: (1) The accomplishment of emergency decrees
of any duly appointed health officer of a county or municipality or of the state acting to
protect the public health and safety; (2) The conservation, repletion and research activities
of the Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, the Marine Resources Division of the Department
of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium; (3)
The exercise of riparian rights by the owner of the riparian rights; provided, that the construction
and maintenance of piers, boathouses and similar structures shall be on pilings that permit
a reasonably unobstructed ebb and flow of the tide; (4) The normal maintenance and repair
of bulkheads, piers, roads and highways existing on the...
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9-15-56
Section 9-15-56 Application for beach project; issuance of permit. (a) Upon application by
a coastal municipality, the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources,
acting through the Lands Division of the department, shall issue a permit for the construction
and maintenance of a beach project by the coastal municipality under the authority of Article
11 of Chapter 47 of Title 11, provided all of the requirements of this section shall have
been satisfied. (b) The application for a beach project shall contain, at a minimum, all of
the following: (1) A detailed description of the location, dimensions, and design features
of the proposed beach project. (2) A copy of the survey, map, metes and bounds description,
or plane coordinate references adopted by the governing body of the coastal municipality as
identifying the location of the mean high tide line and the locations of the limits of the
landward and seaward extensions of the proposed beach project relative to...
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22-22A-3
Section 22-22A-3 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases,
unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context or by legislation governing
functions transferred by this chapter, shall have the following meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT.
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management, established by this chapter. (2) DIRECTOR.
The director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (3) DIVISION. A subdivision
of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, which may be headed by a division chief.
Such divisions may be divided into sections where appropriate. (4) ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
COMMISSION. The Environmental Management Commission of the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management. (5) FUNCTION(S). A duty, power or program exercised by or assigned to a commission,
board or the State Health Department, including all positions and personnel relating to the
performance of such function, unless otherwise provided by...
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9-2-150
Section 9-2-150 Shellfish Aquaculture Review Board; oyster aquaculture leasing program. (a)
For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD.
The Shellfish Aquaculture Review Board. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources. (3) OYSTER AQUACULTURE. The cultivation and harvesting of hatchery-spawned
oysters for commercial purposes. (b) There is created the Shellfish Aquaculture Review Board,
which shall be responsible for developing a shellfish aquaculture policy and implementing
a sustainable program for leasing land in the coastal waters of Alabama for oyster aquaculture.
For administrative purposes, the board shall be an administrative unit within the department.
(c) The board shall consist of the following members: (1) The Commissioner of the Alabama
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources or his or her designee. (2) The Commissioner
of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries or his or her...
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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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