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9-17-153
Section 9-17-153 Protection against pollution and escape of gas; property rights. (a) The board
shall issue such orders, rules and regulations as may be necessary for the purpose of protecting
any such storage facility against pollution, invasion, and the escape or migration of gas
therefrom, including such necessary orders, rules and regulations as may pertain to the drilling
into or through such storage facility. (b) Any and all hydrocarbons which are within the storage
facility on May 21, 1992 and at all times thereafter and which have been acquired by the storage
operator by condemnation or otherwise and any and all gas injected into said facility by the
storage operator shall be deemed the property of the storage operator, his heirs, successors
and assigns, and in no event shall such hydrocarbons or injected gas be subject to the right
of the owner of the surface of the lands or of any mineral interest therein under which such
storage facility shall lie or be adjacent to or of any...
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9-17-152
Section 9-17-152 Board approval; recordation of order; certificate of effectiveness; dissolution
of fields and units; determination of commercial reserves; creation of cavities. (a) The use
of an underground reservoir as a storage facility for gas is hereby authorized, provided that
the board shall first enter an order, after notice and hearing pursuant to the provisions
of Sections 9-17-3 to 9-17-8, inclusive, approving such proposed underground storage of gas
and designating the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the storage facility, such boundaries
to include within them any necessary or reasonable buffer zone for the purpose of insuring
the safe operation of the storage facility and to protect the storage facility against pollution,
invasion, and escape or migration of gas therefrom, upon finding as follows: (1) That the
storage facility is suitable and feasible for the injection, storage and withdrawal of gas
and has a greater value or utility for the storage of gas than for...
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9-17-150
Section 9-17-150 Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined
in this section shall have the following meanings when found in this article: (1) UNDERGROUND
STORAGE. Storage in an underground reservoir. (2) GAS. All natural gas, casinghead gas, and
occluded natural gas found in coal beds, and all other hydrocarbons not defined as oil in
Section 9-17-1(3), except and not including liquid petroleum gas. (3) UNDERGROUND RESERVOIR.
Any subsurface sand, stratum, formation, aquifer, or cavity, cavern or void (whether natural
or artificially created), suitable for or capable of being made suitable for the injection
and storage of gas therein and the withdrawal of gas therefrom. (4) STORAGE FACILITY. Any
underground reservoir used or to be used for the underground storage of gas and all surface
and subsurface rights and appurtenances necessary or useful in the operation of the facility
for the underground storage of gas, including any necessary or reasonable...
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9-17-154
Section 9-17-154 Eminent domain. (a) Any storage operator is hereby empowered, after obtaining
approval of the board as herein required, to exercise the right of eminent domain in the manner
provided by law, to acquire all surface and subsurface rights and interests necessary or useful
for the purpose of operating the storage facility (including easements and rights-of-way across
lands for transporting, by pipeline or otherwise, gas to and from said facility) and to exercise
eminent domain rights to acquire any hydrocarbons therein, pursuant to the provisions hereof.
Such power shall be exercised under the procedure provided by Chapter 1A, Title 18. (b) No
rights or interests in storage facilities acquired for the injection, storage and withdrawal
of gas by a party who has eminent domain rights under this act and who has obtained an order
from the board under the provisions of Section 9-17-152, shall be subject to the exercise
of any eminent domain rights; and no portion of any salt...
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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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22-36-2
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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40-17-322
Section 40-17-322 Definitions. As used in this article and unless the context requires otherwise,
the following terms have the meaning ascribed herein: (1) AIRCRAFT. Any airplane or helicopter.
(2) ASSOCIATE JOBBER. A person who acquires motor fuel from a licensed distributor in this
state for subsequent sale. An associate jobber may obtain a distributor's license even though
it does not acquire fuel from a supplier in this state. (3) AVIATION FUEL. Aviation gasoline
or aviation jet fuel. (4) AVIATION GASOLINE. Motor fuel designed for use in the operation
of aircraft other than jet aircraft, and sold or used for that purpose. (5) AVIATION JET FUEL.
Motor fuel designed for use in the operation of jet or turbo-prop aircraft and sold or used
for that purpose. (6) BIODIESEL FUEL. Any motor fuel or mixture of motor fuels that is derived,
in whole or in part, from agricultural products or animal fats, or the wastes of such products
or fats, and is advertised as, offered for sale as, suitable...
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22-27-2
Section 22-27-2 Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) AGENCY. Any controlling agency,
public or private, elected, appointed, or volunteer utilizing methods approved by the health
department or the department for the purpose of controlling and supervising the collection
or management of solid wastes or recyclable materials. (2) ALTERNATIVE COVER. Material other
than earth used to cover a landfill or sanitary landfill. An alternative cover shall be approved
by the Department of Environmental Management in compliance with federal law and United States
Environmental Protection Agency rules or guidance to achieve a level of performance equal
to or greater than earthen cover material. (3) ASHES. The solid residue from burning of wood,
coal, coke, or other combustible material used for heating, from incineration of solid wastes,
or for the production of electricity at electric generating...
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9-16-90
Section 9-16-90 Environmental protection performance standards. (a) Any permit issued pursuant
to this article to conduct surface mining operations shall require that such surface coal
mining operations will meet all applicable performance standards of this article, and such
other requirements as the regulatory authority shall promulgate. (b) General performance standards
shall be applicable to all surface coal mining and reclamation operations and shall require
the operation as a minimum to: (1) Conduct surface coal mining operations so as to maximize
the utilization and conservation of the solid fuel resource being recovered so that reaffecting
the land in the future through surface coal mining can be minimized; (2) Restore the land
affected to a condition capable of supporting the uses which it was capable of supporting
prior to any mining, or higher or better uses of which there is reasonable likelihood, so
long as such use or uses do not present any actual or probable hazard to...
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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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