• § 12-8-60 - Short Title
  This part shall be known as and may be cited as the "Georgia Hazardous Waste Management Act."
• § 12-8-61 - Legislative Policy
  It is declared to be the public policy of the State of Georgia, in furtherance of its responsibility to protect the public health, safety,...
• § 12-8-62 - Definitions
  As used in this part, the term: (1) "Board" means the Board of Natural Resources of the State of Georgia. (2) "Designated hazardous waste"...
• § 12-8-63 - Administration of Article by Division; Enforcement of Article by Director
  The division shall be the state agency to administer this article. The director shall be the official charged with the primary responsibility for the...
• § 12-8-64 - Powers and Duties of Board As to Hazardous Waste
  In the performance of its duties, the board shall have and may exercise the power to: (1) Adopt, promulgate, modify, amend, and repeal rules...
• § 12-8-65 - Powers and Duties of Director As to Hazardous Waste
  (a) The director shall have and may exercise the following powers and duties: (1) To exercise general supervision over the administration and enforcement of...
• § 12-8-65.1 - Hazardous Waste Reduction Plans; Specific Performance Goals; Biennial Progress Reports; Rules and Regulations
  (a) By not later than March 1, 1992, large quantity hazardous waste generators shall develop hazardous waste reduction plans and submit such plans to...
• § 12-8-65.2 - Updating Plans and Reports; Technical Assistance; Information Available to Public
  (a) All large quantity hazardous waste generators shall complete and submit to the director a hazardous waste reduction plan on or before March 1,...
• § 12-8-65.3 - Plans and Reports by Out-Of-state Generators Storing, Treating, or Disposing of Hazardous Waste in State
  (a) For the purposes of this Code section, "out-of-state generator" means any large quantity hazardous waste generator generating hazardous waste at a location outside...
• § 12-8-65.4 - Duplication of Prior Reporting Requirements Not Required
  Nothing contained in Code Sections 12-8-65.1 through 12-8-65.3 or Code Section 12-8-66 shall require a duplication of reporting requirements under this article as it...
• § 12-8-66 - Permits for Construction, Installation, Operation, or Alteration of Hazardous Waste Facilities
  (a) No person shall, and it shall be unlawful and a violation of this part to, construct, install, operate, or substantially alter a hazardous...
• § 12-8-67 - Hazardous Waste in Transit to Be Accompanied by Manifest
  No hazardous waste shall be transported across, within, or through this state unless it is accompanied by a manifest properly issued, completed, and filled...
• § 12-8-68 - Requirement of Financial Responsibility for Persons Operating or Maintaining Hazardous Waste Storage, Treatment, or Disposal Facility; Hazardous Waste Facility Trust Fund
  (a) No hazardous waste storage, treatment, or disposal facility shall be operated or maintained by any person unless adequate financial responsibility, by bonding or...
• § 12-8-69 - Variances
  (a) Unless variances are prohibited by the federal act or the standards, rules, and regulations promulgated thereunder, the director may grant variances from the...
• § 12-8-70 - Inspections and Investigations
  (a) The director or the director's authorized representative, upon presentation of his credentials, shall have a right to enter upon, to, or through premises...
• § 12-8-71 - Proceedings for Enforcement
  (a) Whenever the director has reason to believe that a violation of any provision of this part, a violation of any rule or regulation...
• § 12-8-72 - Application for Injunctive Relief
  Whenever, in the judgment of the director, any person has engaged in or is about to engage in any act or practice which constitutes...
• § 12-8-73 - Hearings on Contested Matters; Judicial Review
  All hearings on and the review of contested matters, orders, or permits and all hearings on and the review of any other enforcement actions...
• § 12-8-74 - Judgment in Accordance With Final Orders
  Any order of the hearing officer issued after a hearing as provided in Code Section 12-8-73 or any order of the director issued pursuant...
• § 12-8-75 - Powers of Director in Situations Involving Imminent and Substantial Endangerment to Environment or to Public Health
  Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary, the director, upon receipt of evidence that the past or present handling, storage, treatment, transportation,...
• § 12-8-76 - Legal Assistance by Attorney General
  It shall be the duty of the Attorney General or his representative to represent the director in all actions in connection with this article.
• § 12-8-77 - Contracts to Provide Solid Waste Handling, Reclamation, or Recycling Services
  (a) Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, in order to comply with this article, with the federal act, or with applicable state...
• § 12-8-78 - Public Access to Information; Protection of Confidential Information; Access to Confidential Information by Federal Government and Courts
  (a) Any records, reports, or information obtained from any person by the director under this part or the rules and regulations promulgated under this...
• § 12-8-79 - Effect of Other Laws on Permits Issued Under Article and Rules and Regulations
  Subject to the provisions of the Constitution of Georgia, no other law of this state and no action, ordinance, regulation, or law of any...
• § 12-8-80 - Applicability of Article
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 1992, p. 2234, § 5, effective July 1, 1992.
• § 12-8-81 - Civil Penalties; Procedures for Imposing Penalties
  (a) Any person violating any provision of this article, the rules or regulations effective under this article, or any permit condition or limitation established...
• § 12-8-82 - Criminal Penalty
  (a) Any person who: (1) Knowingly transports or causes to be transported any hazardous waste as defined in this article to a facility which...
• § 12-8-83 - Use of Material Mixed With Dioxin or Other Hazardous Waste for Dust Suppression or Road Treatment Prohibited
  The use of waste or used oil or other material which is contaminated or mixed with dioxin or any other hazardous waste as defined...

Last modified: October 14, 2016