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22-30-9
Section 22-30-9 General responsibilities of State Department. The responsibilities of the department
include the following: (1) The department may adopt procedures for granting variances and
is empowered to grant such variances. (2) The department, acting through the commission, may
promulgate, and may revise when appropriate, rules and regulations and may enter into agreements
to ensure that information obtained by the department regarding facilities and sites for the
treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous waste is available to the public in substantially
the same manner, and to the same degree, as would be the case under the Federal Hazardous
Waste Management Program administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
under authority of the RCRA and shall establish procedures to ensure that trade secrets used
by any person regarding methods of hazardous wastes handling and disposal are utilized by
the department, or any authorized representative of the department,...
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45-43-170.03
Section 45-43-170.03 Solid waste disposal - Definitions. As used in this article, the following
words shall have the following meanings respectively ascribed to them unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise: (1) BURNING. No garbage or rubbish containing garbage or other putrescible
materials or hazardous wastes shall be burned except in approved incinerators meeting the
regulations of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management requirements and air pollution
controls as now established or as may later be established. The open burning of rubbish shall
be permitted only under sharply controlled circumstances where sanitary landfill or landfill
is not feasible and not in proximity to sanitary landfill or landfill operations where spread
of fire to these operations may be a hazard in the opinion of the department. (2) DEPARTMENT.
Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (3) EXCEPTION. A person, household, business,
industry, or any property owner may store, haul, and...
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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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22-27-3
Section 22-27-3 Authority of local governing bodies as waste collections and disposal; household
exemptions; state regulatory program. (a) Generally. (1) The county commission or municipal
governing body may, and is hereby authorized to, make available to the general public collection
and disposal facilities for solid wastes in a manner acceptable to the department. The county
commission or municipal governing body may provide such collection or disposal services by
contract with private or other controlling agencies and may include house-to-house service
or the placement of regularly serviced and controlled bulk refuse receptacles within reasonable
(generally less than eight miles) distance from the farthest affected household and the wastes
managed in a manner acceptable to the department. (2) Any county commission or municipal governing
body providing services to the public under this article shall have the power and authority
by resolution or ordinance to adopt rules and...
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22-30-19
Section 22-30-19 Penalties and remedies. (a) Whenever, on the basis of any information, the
department determines that any person is in violation of any requirement of this chapter,
any rule or regulation promulgated by the department or any permit issued under authority
granted by this chapter, the department may issue an order requiring compliance immediately
or within a specified time period, and, in cases where an imminent threat to human health
or the environment is demonstrated, suspend operations causing such threat until the department
determines that adequate steps are being taken to correct such violations. (b) Whenever, on
the basis of any information, the department determines that there is or has been a release
of hazardous waste into the environment from a facility authorized to operate under Section
22-30-12(i), the department may issue an order requiring corrective action or such other response
measure as it deems necessary to protect human health or the environment....
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45-49-252.14
Section 45-49-252.14 Certain acts and practices prohibited. (a) It shall be unlawful to dispose
of solid waste except by sanitary landfill, incineration, recycling process, or other method
approved by the director, consistent with applicable state law, operated by the county or
permitted and possessing certificates of need as required herein. (b) It shall be unlawful
to allow an unauthorized accumulation of rubbish, yard trash, garbage, and putrescible waste
on any residential or commercial premises not engaged in a salvaging operation. (c) It shall
be unlawful for any person other than the owner or collector, or his or her agent, or employees
to collect refuse or to interfere in any manner with any such receptacles from the place where
the same are placed by the owner or person lawfully in control thereof, or to remove the contents
of such receptacles. (d) No person shall place any refuse in any street, alley, or other public
place, or upon private property, whether owned by such...
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9-16-91
Section 9-16-91 Surface effects of underground coal mining; requirements; remedies. (a) The
regulatory authority shall promulgate rules and regulations directed toward the surface effects
of underground coal mining operations, and embodying the following requirements. In adopting
any rules and regulations, the regulatory authority shall consider all distinct differences
between surface coal mining and underground coal mining. (b) Each permit issued pursuant to
this article and relating to underground coal mining shall require the operator to: (1) Adopt
measures consistent with available technology in order to prevent subsidence causing material
damage to the extent technologically and economically feasible, maximize mine stability, and
maintain the value and reasonably foreseeable use of such surface lands, except in those instances
where the mining methods used requires planned subsidence in a predictable and controlled
manner. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit...
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9-17-1
Section 9-17-1 Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall
have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. The State Oil and Gas Board created by this article.
(2) DEVELOPED AREA or DEVELOPED UNIT. A drainage unit having a well completed thereon which
is capable of producing oil or gas in paying quantities; however, in the event it is shown
and the board finds that a part of any unit is nonproductive, then the developed part of the
unit shall include only that part found to be productive. (3) DRAINAGE OR PRODUCTION UNIT.
The area in a pool which may be drained efficiently and economically by one well. (4) DRILLING
UNIT. An administrative unit established by the board to provide and allow for the drilling
of a well. Prior to establishment of a field and drainage or production unit within the field,
the board may establish a drilling unit to allow for the drilling of a well in search of oil
and gas. (5) FIELD. The general area which is underlain or appears to be...
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22-30-17
Section 22-30-17 Manifest. (a) The department shall develop and, acting through the commission,
promulgate a manifest. (b) A manifest shall be required to accompany transportation, for off-site
storage, treatment or disposal of hazardous waste, provided, however, that regarding bulk
shipments by rail or water, a shipping paper may be substituted for the manifest if the shipping
paper meets the requirements set out in the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter.
The manifest shall be originated by the hazardous waste generator and shall identify the hazardous
waste transported, the quantity of such waste, and such other information as the department
may require. (c) A copy of each complete manifest shall be forwarded monthly to the department
by owners or operators treating, storing or disposing of hazardous wastes received from off-site.
(Acts 1978, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 129, p. 1843, §17; Acts 1984, No. 84-50, p. 57, §1; Acts
1987, No. 87-807, p. 1590, §13.)...
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22-30B-1
Section 22-30B-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter and except where the context prohibits,
the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMERCIAL SITE FOR THE
DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS WASTE OR HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES. A site or facility receiving hazardous
waste or hazardous substances, as defined herein, not generated on site, for disposal and
to which a fee is paid or other consideration given for such disposal. (2) DISPOSAL. The discharge,
deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, incineration, leaking or placing of any waste or substance
into or on any land or water so that such waste or substance or any constituent thereof may
enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters including groundwaters
at a commercial site within the State of Alabama for the disposal of hazardous waste or hazardous
substances as defined herein. For the purpose of this chapter incineration does not include
hazardous substances or waste that have been...
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