[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 19]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR147.51]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 147--STATE UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart B--Alabama
 
Sec. 147.51  State-administered program--Class I, III, IV, and V wells.

    The UIC program for Class I, III, IV and V wells in the State of 
Alabama, except those on Indian lands, is the program administered by 
the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, approved by EPA 
pursuant to section 1422 of the SDWA. Notice of this approval was 
published in the Federal Register on August 25, 1983 (48 FR 38640); the 
effective date of this program is August 25, 1983. This program consists 
of the following elements, as submitted to EPA in the State's program 
application:
    (a) Incorporation by reference. The requirements set forth in the 
State statutes and regulations cited in this paragraph are hereby 
incorporated by reference and made a part of the applicable UIC program 
under the SDWA for the State of Alabama. This incorporation by reference 
was approved by the Director of the Federal Register on June 25, 1984.
    (1) Alabama Water Pollution Control Act, Code of Alabama 1975, 
sections 22-22-1 through 22-22-14 (1980 and Supp. 1983);
    (2) Regulations, Policies and Procedures of the Alabama Water 
Improvement Commission, Title I (Regulations) (Rev. December 1980), as 
amended May 17, 1982, to add Chapter 9, Underground Injection Control 
Regulations (effective June 10, 1982), as amended April 6, 1983 
(effective May 11, 1983).
    (b) The Memorandum of Agreement between EPA Region IV and the 
Alabama Department of Environment Management, signed by the EPA Regional 
Administrator on May 24, 1983.
    (c) Statement of legal authority. (1) ``Water Pollution--Public 
Health--State has Authority to Carry Out Underground Injection Control 
Program Described in Federal Safe Drinking Water Act--Opinion by Legal 
Counsel for the Water Improvement Commission,'' June 25, 1982;
    (2) Letter from Attorney, Alabama Water Improvement Commission, to 
Regional Administrator, EPA Region IV, ``Re: AWIC Response to Phillip 
Tate's (U.S. EPA, Washington) Comments on AWIC's Final Application for 
Class I, III, IV, and V UIC Program,'' September 21, 1982;
    (3) Letter from Alabama Chief Assistant Attorney General to Regional 
Counsel, EPA Region IV, ``Re: Status of Independent Legal Counsel in 
Alabama Water Improvement Commission's Underground Injection Control 
Program,'' September 14, 1982.
    (d) The Program Description and any other materials submitted as 
part of the application or as supplements thereto.

[49 FR 20197, May 11, 1984, as amended at 53 FR 43086, Oct. 25, 1988]