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22-22A-6
Section 22-22A-6 Environmental Management Commission; powers and duties; composition; meetings;
compensation; expenses; ethical requirements. (a) There is hereby created a seven member Environmental
Management Commission of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management which shall have
the following duties: (1) To select a director for the Department of Environmental Management
and to advise the director on environmental matters which are within the department's scope
of authority; (2) To establish, adopt, promulgate, modify, repeal, and suspend any rules,
regulations, or environmental standards for the department which may be applicable to the
state as a whole or any of its geographical parts; (3) To develop environmental policy for
the state; and (4) To hear and determine appeals of administrative actions. (b) The Environmental
Management Commission shall be composed of seven members who are citizens of the State of
Alabama. Initial members of the commission shall be appointed...
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35-19-12
Section 35-19-12 Registry of environmental covenants. (a) The Alabama Department of Environmental
Management shall establish and maintain a registry that contains all environmental covenants
and any amendment or termination of those covenants. The registry may also contain any other
information concerning environmental covenants and the real property subject to them which
the department considers appropriate. The registry is a public record for purposes of Section
36-12-40. (b) After an environmental covenant or an amendment or termination of a covenant
is filed in the registry established pursuant to subsection (a), a notice of the covenant,
amendment, or termination that complies with this section may be recorded in the land records
in lieu of recording the entire covenant. Any such notice must contain all of the following:
(1) A legally sufficient description and any available street address of the real property
subject to the covenant. (2) The name and address of the owner of the...
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22-36-2
Section 22-36-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise indicated,
the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Environmental Management Commission. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama
Department of Environmental Management. (3) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Department
of Environmental Management. (4) OPERATOR. Any person in control of, or having responsibility
for, the daily operation of an underground storage tank. (5) OWNER OF AN UNDERGROUND STORAGE
TANK: a. In the case of an underground storage tank in use on November 8, 1984 or brought
into use after that date, any person who owns an underground storage tank used for the storage,
use, or dispensing of regulated substances, and b. In the case of any underground storage
tank in use before November 8, 1984 but no longer in use on that date, the present owner of
the tank and any person who owned such tank immediately before the...
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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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22-22-1
Section 22-22-1 Short title; definitions. (a) This chapter may be cited as the "Alabama
Water Pollution Control Act." (b) For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise
indicated, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this
section: (1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (2) WATERS. All
waters of any river, stream, watercourse, pond, lake, coastal, ground or surface water, wholly
or partially within the state, natural or artificial. This does not include waters which are
entirely confined and retained completely upon the property of a single individual, partnership
or corporation unless such waters are used in interstate commerce. (3) POLLUTION. The discharge
of a pollutant or combination of pollutants. A pollutant includes but is not limited to dredged
spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical
wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or...
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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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22-22A-17
Section 22-22A-17 Navigable Waters Dredging Fund. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law,
the budget proposed each year for the Alabama Department of Environmental Management shall
include as a line item in the General Fund Budget the Navigable Waters Dredging Fund for the
dredging of the navigable waters of this state and for sediment reuse. The director of the
department shall present the proposed budget at the appropriate budget hearing scheduled by
the Alabama Legislature. (b) There is established a Navigable Waters Dredging Fund which shall
be administered by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management which funds shall be
paid to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the purposes of dredging the navigable waters
of this state and for sediment reuse. The principal of the fund shall consist of the following:
(1) Funds appropriated by any governmental entity. (2) Funds received as gifts from any source.
(c) All funds collected or received by the department for the Navigable...
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22-28A-3
Section 22-28A-3 Regulations, commitments relating to reduction of greenhouse gases. (a) Effective
immediately, the Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management shall refrain
from proposing or promulgating any new regulations intended in whole or in part to reduce
emissions of greenhouse gases, as such gases are defined by the Kyoto Protocol, from the residential,
commercial, industrial, electric utility, or transportation sectors unless such reductions
are required under existing statutes. (b) In the absence of a resolution or other act of the
Legislature of the State of Alabama approving same, the Director of the Alabama Department
of Environmental Management shall not submit to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or
to any other agency of the federal government any legally enforceable commitments related
to the reduction of greenhouse gases, as such gases are defined by the Kyoto Protocol unless
such reductions are required under existing statutes. (Act...
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9-10B-26
Section 9-10B-26 Effect of chapter on other state departments and agencies. Nothing in this
chapter shall be interpreted as negating, destroying, impairing, preempting, or superseding
any statutory, common law, or other legal right, duty, power, or authority of the Alabama
Department of Environmental Management, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources, the Alabama Department of Public Health, the Geological Survey of Alabama or any
other agency or department of this state. (Acts 1993, No. 93-44, p. 78, ยง27.)...
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35-19-2
Section 35-19-2 Definitions. The following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ACTIVITY
AND USE LIMITATIONS. Restrictions or obligations created under this chapter with respect to
real property. (2) AGENCY or DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
(3) COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITY. A condominium, cooperative, or other real property with respect
to which a person, by virtue of the person's ownership of a parcel of real property, is obligated
to pay property taxes or insurance premiums, or for maintenance, or improvement of other real
property described in a recorded covenant that creates the common interest community. (4)
DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management or his or her
designated representative. (5) ENVIRONMENTAL COVENANT. A servitude arising under an environmental
response project that imposes activity and use limitations. (6) ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE PROJECT.
A plan or work performed for environmental remediation...
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