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Water Pollution Control Authority (Code of Alabama: Title 22 Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control; Chapter 34)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Territorial subdivision
Alabama
Document type
Legislation
Date
1975 (2019)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Water
Keyword
Freshwater pollution Pollution control Water quality standards Institution Governance Financing Subsidy/incentive
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This chapter of the Code of Alabama provides for the Water Pollution Control Authority. It is the intent of the Legislature by the passage of this chapter to enable the state acting by and through the authority and the Department of Environmental Management to aid in the prevention and control of water pollution, to provide state financial aid to public bodies for the prevention and control of water pollution, and to these ends to authorize the incorporation of a state authority with power to issue Water Pollution Control Bonds; and to agree to pay and to pay such portion of the estimated reasonable cost of the projects of each public body as may be required to meet the water quality goals of the Federal Clean Water Act.

Full text
English
Website
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us