22-27-15
Section 22-27-15 Establishment and review of reduction goals. (a) No later than October 15,
2009, the department shall establish, by rule, a goal for the percentage, on a statewide basis
only, of the reduction in the amount of household and commercial solid waste and the time
frames for that reduction. Reduction, by means including, but not limited to, recycling, source
reduction, waste minimization, reuse, and composting shall be determined at public solid waste
disposal or incineration facilities on a statewide, per capita basis. In order to evaluate
the statewide efforts, the department shall adopt rules for the determination of the base
year data, and reporting requirements by local governing bodies and public solid waste disposal
or incineration facilities, to include both the quantity and origin of the solid waste disposed
or incinerated at such facilities. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the reduction
goals shall emphasize activities prior to the delivery of...
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22-22A-4
Section 22-22A-4 Department of Environmental Management created; principal office; director;
deputy director; divisions and division chiefs; transfer of functions; designation as State
Environmental Control Agency, etc.; contract with Health Department for routine bacteriological
analyses. (a) There is hereby created and established the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management to carry out the purposes of this chapter and to administer and enforce the provisions
of this chapter and all functions transferred to the department by this chapter. The department
shall maintain its principal office in the City of Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama.
(b) The department shall be under the supervision and control of an officer who shall be designated
as the director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. The director shall
be an individual knowledgeable and experienced in environmental matters. The director shall
employ such officers, agents and employees as he deems...
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22-27-46
Section 22-27-46 Regional planning and development commissions. (a) Not later than six months
from May 16, 1989, each regional planning and development commission in the state shall prepare
and adopt a regional needs assessment evaluating solid waste management needs in their respective
regions. This regional needs assessment shall be submitted to the department for information
and review and shall be considered by units of local government within the region in the development
of their individual plans as required herein. Thereafter, the assessment shall be revised
and submitted to the department and local governments in the region annually. The regional
needs assessment shall include, at a minimum, the following: (1) An evaluation of the amount
of solid waste generated within the region and the amount of remaining disposal capacity,
expressed in years, at each solid waste disposal facility within the region; (2) An evaluation
of the needs of all localities within the district as to...
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22-27-44
Section 22-27-44 Solid Waste Management Advisory Committee. There is hereby created a twelve
member Solid Waste Management Advisory Committee to advise on the development of the Solid
Waste Management Plan. The committee members shall be named as follows: two representatives
designated by the Governor who shall be private citizens and who shall have been residents
of the state for at least two years; two representatives designated by the State Health Officer;
two representatives designated by the board of directors of the Association of County Commissions
of Alabama; two representatives designated by the board of directors of the Alabama League
of Municipalities; one member of the Alabama Environmental Management Commission selected
by the commission; one representative from the Alabama Chapter of the Government Refuse Collection
and Disposal Association selected from its membership by its board of directors; president
of the Alabama Conservancy; and the chairman of the committee who...
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22-27-48
Section 22-27-48 Implementation of plans. (a) In addition to any regulatory bodies, the governing
body of a county or municipality has a responsibility for and the authority to assure the
proper management of solid wastes generated within its jurisdiction in accord with its solid
waste management plan. A governing body may assign territories and approve or disapprove disposal
sites in its jurisdiction in accord with the plan approved for its jurisdiction. Such approval
or disapproval of services or activities described in the local plan shall be in addition
to any other approvals required from other regulatory authorities and shall be made prior
to any other approvals necessary for the provision of such services, the development of a
proposed facility or the modification of permits for existing facilities. (b) The department
may not consider an application for a new facility unless the application has received approval
pursuant to Section 22-27-48.1 by the affected local governing...
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22-32-4
Section 22-32-4 Authorization to operate site; users' charges; lease or contract for operation
and disposal of low-level radioactive wastes. (a) The Alabama Department of Energy is authorized
to operate a treatment, storage or disposal site for low-level radioactive wastes pursuant
to any license issued by the Radiation Control Agency. The Alabama Department of Energy is
authorized to charge each user of any licensed site within the state that user's proportionate
share of the costs for handling of the wastes. These costs shall be paid on the basis of a
fee per volume of wastes received at each site. Such fee shall be paid to the Department of
Energy and may include, but not be limited to costs of: (1) Operating fund (as hereinafter
provided for), including: labor and equipment, liability insurance, contingency costs, licensing
and inspection fees of the Radiation Control Agency for operation of the site; (2) Perpetual
cost fund costs (as hereinafter provided for); (3) Operating fund...
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45-49-252.01
Section 45-49-252.01 Powers and duties of administrative department. (a) The director, or his
or her duly appointed designee, shall be responsible for the administrative management of
this part. (b) The director shall provide for a solid waste management system consistent with
this part, consisting of storage, collection, transport, processing, separation, recovery,
and disposal. (c) The solid waste management system must be submitted to the Mobile County
Commission of Mobile County, Alabama, for review and approval or rejection. (Act 81-450, p.
773, §2.)...
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22-30-10
Section 22-30-10 Development and revision of criteria for determining hazardous wastes. (a)
The department, acting through the commission, shall promulgate and revise criteria for identifying
hazardous waste. (b) When developing these criteria, the department shall determine whether
the concentrations being disposed of present immediate or persistent toxic hazards to human
health or the environment, or the resistance of such wastes to natural degradation or detoxification
and/or whether such wastes are bioconcentrative, ignitable, reactive, toxic, irritating, corrosive
or infectious in addition to any hazardous characteristics. (c) The department shall compile,
and revise from time to time thereafter, a listing of solid wastes which have been determined
to be hazardous by using these criteria. Unless specifically excluded, all solid wastes identified
as hazardous by application of the criteria are hazardous wastes and must be managed in accordance
with this chapter and the regulations...
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22-30-15
Section 22-30-15 Regulations as to transporters. Subject to Section 22-30-21, the department,
acting through the commission, is authorized to promulgate regulations establishing such standards,
applicable to transporters of hazardous waste identified or listed under this chapter, as
may be necessary to protect human health or the environment. Such standards shall include
but not be limited to the following: (1) Unless exempted from regulation by this chapter or
rules promulgated under authority of this chapter, obtaining a permit from the department;
(2) Completing the manifest form in conjunction with the generator; (3) Assuring that all
hazardous wastes are transported to the permitted or interim status hazardous waste treatment,
storage facility or disposal facility or alternate facility designated on the manifest or,
if rejected by such facility, returned to the generator; (4) Maintaining records of hazardous
waste transported, and their source and delivery points; and (5)...
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22-30-4
Section 22-30-4 Regulatory and investigative authority; monitoring of commercial sites for
hazardous wastes; fees; hearings and investigations. (a) The department has exclusive regulatory
authority over all hazardous waste generation, transportation, storage, treatment and disposal
and other management practices in the state, and shall, from time to time, investigate and
monitor sources of generation, transportation, storage, treatment and disposal of hazardous
waste. However, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit the authority of the Alabama
Department of Public Health to regulate wastes containing radioactive materials under Chapter
14 of this title. (b) In exercising such exclusive authority, the department shall provide
sufficient personnel with training in hazardous waste management and a minimum of a bachelor's
degree in the sciences or engineering to comprehensively monitor all commercial sites for
the disposal of hazardous wastes. Such personnel shall be hired by...
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