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MS Code § 49-17-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|In General|§ 49-17-37. Transcript of hearings

 All hearings before the commission shall be recorded either by a court reporter or by tape or mechanical recorders and subject to transcription upon order of the commission or any interested party, but in the event that the request for transcription originates with an interested party, such party shall pay the cost thereof.
MS Code § 49-17-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|In General|§ 49-17-39. Protection of confidential information

 Information obtained by the commission concerning environmental protection including but not limited to information contained in applications for air emission equipment construction permits and water discharge permits shall be public information and shall be made available upon proper request. Other information obtained by the commission, department or permit board in the administration of Sections 49-17-1 through 49-17-43 concerning trade secrets, including, but not limited to, marketing or financial information, processes, devices, methods of manufacture, or production capabilities or amounts shall be kept confidential, if and only if: (a) a written confidentiality claim is made when the information is supplied; (b) such confidentiality claim allows disclosure of the confidential information to authorized department employees and/or the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); and (c) such confidentiality claim is determined by the commission to be valid. If the confidentiality claim is denied, the information sought to be covered thereby shall not be released or disclosed, except to the Environmental Protection Agency, until the claimant has been notified in writing and afforded an opportunity for a hearing and appeal therefrom, as with other orders of the commission. Disclosure of confidential information by the EPA should be governed by federal law and EPA regulations. Anyone making unauthorized disclosure of information determined to be confidential as herein provided shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising therefrom and shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable as provided by law.
MS Code § 49-17-42 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|In General|§ 49-17-42. Consideration as "owner"; exemption from liability

  Any lender or holder who maintains indicia of ownership primarily to protect an interest in a property, facility, or other person, and who does not participate in the management of the property, facility, or other person, shall not be considered an owner or operator of that property, facility, or other person, nor liable under any pollution control or other environmental protection law, or any rule or regulation or written order of the commission in pursuance thereof, for the prevention, clean-up, removal, remediation or abatement of any pollution, hazardous waste or solid waste placed, released or dumped on, in, about or near the property, facility or other person or caused by any operator on or of the property, facility or other person.   This section shall apply to actions commenced by the commission or by third parties.   In implementing this section, the commission shall adopt regulations equivalent to those proposed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for this purpose.   This section shall apply to all interests existing at the time of passage of this chapter and thereafter created, whether secured or unsecured.
MS Code § 49-17-44.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|In General|§ 49-17-44.1. Petition for appointment of receiver to operate and manage abandoned or grossly mismanaged sewer systems

 If the commission determines that any privately owned sewer system that is certificated by the Public Service Commission and within its jurisdiction has been actually or effectively abandoned by its owner, or that its management is grossly inefficient or irresponsible, and the abandonment or management has created an environmental problem that endangers public health, the commission may petition the chancery court of any county wherein the privately-owned sewer system is located for an order attaching the assets of the privately-owned sewer system and placing such sewer system under the sole control and responsibility of a receiver. Any person served by the sewer system shall have standing to intervene in the chancery proceeding as an interested party. If the court determines that the petition is proper in all respects and finds, after a hearing thereon, the allegations contained in the petition are true, it shall order that the sewer system be placed in receivership. The court, in its discretion and in consideration of the recommendation of the commission, may appoint a receiver who shall be a responsible individual, partnership, corporation or political subdivision knowledgeable in sewer service affairs and who shall maintain control and responsibility for the operation and management of the affairs of such sewer system. The receiver shall operate the sewer system so as to preserve the assets of the sewer system and to serve the best interests of its customers while protecting public health and welfare and the environment. The receiver shall be compensated from the assets of the sewer system in an amount to be determined by the court. Control of and responsibility for the sewer system shall remain in the receiver until the court determines that it is in the best interests of the customers and the public interest that the sewer system be returned to the owner, transferred to another owner, or assumed by another sewer system or public service corporation. If the court, after hearing, determines that control of and responsibility for the affairs of the sewer system should not be returned to the legal owner thereof, the receiver may proceed to liquidate the assets of the sewer system in the manner provided by law. Mississippi laws and Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure generally applicable to receivership shall govern receiverships created under this section. Any new owner or operator of a sewer system transferred or liquidated by the receiver or the chancery court under this subsection shall obtain all necessary permits and approvals from the Permit Board, the Public Service Commission and any other applicable state or local agencies.
MS Code § 49-17-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|In General|§ 49-17-45. Small Business Stationary Source Technical and Environmental Compliance Assistance program; Small Business Compliance Advisory Panel

  The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality, acting through the Department of Environmental Quality, shall establish and administer, in accordance with the Federal Clean Air Act, the Mississippi Small Business Stationary Source Technical and Environmental Compliance Assistance Program (PROGRAM).   There is created the Mississippi Small Business Compliance Advisory Panel. The Mississippi Small Business Compliance Advisory Panel shall consist of the following members, the term of each to be concurrent with the term of the appointing official of that member:   One (1) member representing the Air Pollution Control Program of the Department of Environmental Quality;   Two (2) members who are not owners or representatives of owners of a small business, appointed by the Governor;   Two (2) members who each shall be the owner or representatives of an owner of a small business, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and   Two (2) members who each shall be the owner or representatives of an owner of a small business, appointed by the Lieutenant Governor.     The panel shall elect one (1) member to serve as chairman. The panel shall meet at the call of the chairman at Jackson, Mississippi, or such other places within the state designated by the panel; however, the panel shall not meet more than four (4) times during a calendar year.   Members of the Mississippi Small Business Compliance Advisory Panel shall serve without salary, but each shall be entitled to receive per diem as provided in Section 25-3-69 and his actual travel and hotel expenses incurred while in the performance of his duties as a member of the committee in accordance with Section 25-3-41. Per diem and expenses shall be paid on an itemized statement approved by the State Fiscal Officer from fees collected under Section 49-17-30.   The Mississippi Small Business Compliance Advisory Panel shall:   Render advisory opinions concerning:   The effectiveness of the Small Business Stationary Source Technical and Environmental Compliance Assistance Program;   Difficulties encountered; and   Degree and severity of enforcement;     Make periodic reports to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concerning the compliance of the State Small Business Stationary Source Technical and Environmental Compliance Assistance Program with the requirements of the federal Paperwork Reduction Act, the federal Regulatory Flexibility Act, and the federal Equal Access to Justice Act;   Review information for small business stationary sources to assure such information is understandable by the layperson; and   Have the Small Business Stationary Source Technical and Environmental Compliance Assistance Program serve as the secretariat for the development and dissemination of such reports and advisory opinions.
MS Code § 49-17-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Water Pollution Abatement Grant Program|§ 49-17-63. Loans in aid; eligibility

 Loans in aid of construction in amounts of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) or less made from state funds shall be made to the political subdivision eligible to receive such loan immediately upon approval of the award by the appropriate federal agency or agencies of a contract, or contracts, for construction.   The remainder of any such loan in aid of construction from state funds shall be made in installments in accord with rules and regulations adopted by the bureau of pollution control of the department of natural resources as authorized by subsection (h) of Section 49-17-17, Mississippi Code of 1972.   All such loans in aid of construction shall be made subject to the availability of funds.
MS Code § 49-17-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Water Pollution Abatement Grant Program|§ 49-17-65. Waste disposal plants; construction loans; pledge for repayment; disposition of repaid funds; renegotiation of certain loans

  Any political subdivision desiring to construct a waste disposal plant approved by the Office of Pollution Control of the Department of Environmental Quality, and which receives a loan from the state for that purpose, shall pledge for the repayment of such loan that part of the sales tax reimbursement to which it is entitled under Section 27-65-75 as may be required to meet a repayment schedule adopted by the State Tax Commission. The repayment schedule shall provide for monthly payments, the largest of which shall not exceed the average monthly payment for the term of years of the contract by more than fifteen percent (15%). The repayment schedule shall provide for the repayment of all funds received within not more than twenty (20) years from the date said loan is actually received by the political subdivision; however, the repayment schedule and the time for repayment of all funds received on loans renegotiated under subsection (6) of this section shall be modified by the State Tax Commission to conform with the terms of the renegotiated loan. The State Tax Commission shall withhold monthly from the amount to be remitted to a political subdivision, a sum equal to the next monthly payment.   When bonds shall have been issued by the State of Mississippi to generate funds to be used for loans to be made under the provisions of Section 49-17-61, all payments made in repayment under this section shall be deposited into the Water Pollution Abatement Bond Fund established under the provisions of Section 49-17-61 so long as any such bonds shall be outstanding and unpaid.   When all the bonds shall have been paid, such payments shall be deposited in the Water Pollution Abatement Loan Fund ("loan fund") established under the provisions of Section 49-17-61.   When no such bonds shall be outstanding and unpaid, the payments shall be deposited in the loan fund.   Funds on deposit in the loan fund may be used to make loans in aid of construction for water pollution abatement upon appropriation by the Legislature.   The Department of Environmental Quality may, on a case-by-case basis, renegotiate the payment of principal on loans made under Sections 49-17-61 through 49-17-70 to political subdivisions located in the six (6) most southern counties of the state covered by the Presidential Declaration of Major Disaster for the State of Mississippi (FEMA-1604-DR) dated August 29, 2005; however, the maturity of the loans shall not be extended for a period of more than forty-eight (48) months.
MS Code § 49-17-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Water Pollution Abatement Grant Program|§ 49-17-67. Repayment agreement

 Before any political subdivision shall receive any loan it shall have executed with the state tax commission a repayment agreement, a copy of which must also be filed with the bureau of pollution control of the department of natural resources, after which the bureau shall enter upon its minutes a certificate certifying that the waste disposal plant has been approved, a copy of which certificate must be delivered to and filed with the Mississippi State Tax Commission. The repayment schedule hereinabove provided for shall not be construed to prohibit any recipient from prepaying any part or all of the funds received.
MS Code § 49-17-68 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Water Pollution Abatement Grant Program|§ 49-17-68. Pollution Emergency Fund created; sources of funds

 The Pollution Emergency Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. All fines, penalties or other money recovered or collected by the commission under Sections 17-17-29 and 49-17-43 shall be deposited into appropriate accounts in such fund. The commission is further authorized to receive and accept additional funds from any other source to be deposited into the Pollution Emergency Fund. The commission is authorized to utilize any funds in the Pollution Emergency Fund for the purpose of mitigation, abatement, clean-up or other remedial actions and related technical investigations involving the introduction of pollutants, including hazardous wastes, upon or into the land, air or waters of this state and may be used for the purpose of providing the required state matching funds to assist the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in furtherance of its remedial clean-up program. When the acceptance of such funds by the commission is conditioned on the return of those funds to the grantor after use and recovery, such funds shall be returned to the grantor.
MS Code § 49-17-70 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Water Pollution Abatement Grant Program|§ 49-17-70. Repayment agreement; certificate of approved disposal plant

 Before any political subdivision shall receive any loan, it shall have executed with the state tax commission a repayment agreement, a copy of which must also be filed with the bureau of pollution control of the department of natural resources, after which the bureau shall enter upon its minutes a certificate certifying that the waste disposal plant has been approved; a copy of which certificate shall be delivered to and filed with the Mississippi State Tax Commission.
MS Code § 49-17-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Tennessee River Basin Water Pollution Control Compact|§ 49-17-71. Tennessee River Basin Water Pollution Control Compact

 The governor, on behalf of this state, is hereby authorized to execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with any one or more of the States of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, and the legislature hereby signifies in advance its approval and ratification of such compact:
MS Code § 49-17-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Tennessee River Basin Water Pollution Control Compact|§ 49-17-73. When compact effective

 When the governor shall have executed the compact on behalf of this state and shall have caused a verified copy thereof to be filed with the state secretary, and when such compact shall have been ratified by one or more of the states named in Section 49-17-71, then compact shall become operative and effective as between this state and such other state or states. The governor is hereby authorized and directed to take such action as may be necessary to complete the exchange of official documents as between this state and any other state ratifying the compact.
MS Code § 49-17-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Tennessee River Basin Water Pollution Control Compact|§ 49-17-75. Commission created

 The commission contemplated by Article IV of the above compact shall consist of three (3) members, as follows: One legislator, who may either be a member of the Mississippi State Senate or the Mississippi House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Mississippi Commission on Interstate Co-operation, and two (2) executive officers or employees in the executive branch of the state government whose duties, experience and abilities qualify them for such a position, to be appointed by the governor. Each member of the commission must be a qualified voter of this state and shall serve for a term of four (4) years and be eligible to immediately succeed himself.
MS Code § 49-17-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Tennessee River Basin Water Pollution Control Compact|§ 49-17-77. Authority of commissioners; construction of laws

 The three (3) commissioners from the State of Mississippi shall be authorized to do any and all things necessary in order to effectuate the terms and provisions of the compact contained herein and Sections 49-17-71 through 49-17-77 shall be entitled to a liberal interpretation in order to carry out the spirit and intent of the aforesaid compact.
MS Code § 49-17-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund|§ 49-17-81. Short title

 Sections 49-17-81 through 49-17-89 shall be known and cited as the "Mississippi Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund and Emergency Loan Fund Act."
MS Code § 49-17-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund|§ 49-17-83. Definitions

 For the purposes of Sections 49-17-81 through 49-17-89, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed in this section:   "Administrator" means the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.   "Commission" means the Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality.   "Department" means the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.   "Emergency fund" means the "Water Pollution Control Emergency Loan Fund" created under Section 49-17-86.   "Loan agreement" means an agreement by and among the commission, a political subdivision and the State Tax Commission to evidence the terms and provisions of a loan under Sections 49-17-81 through 49-17-89.   "Loan fund" means the Water Pollution Abatement Loan Fund created pursuant to Section 49-17-61.   "Municipal security" means a bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness issued by a political subdivision to evidence a loan pursuant to the provisions of Sections 49-17-81 through 49-17-89.   "Political subdivision" means any county, municipality, utility, district, political subdivision, or other governmental unit created under state law.   "Project" means a publicly owned wastewater collection, treatment or disposal system including sludge disposal, renovation, repair and upgrading of existing systems, nonpoint source pollution control management programs and estuary conservation and management programs, and otherwise qualified under rules of the commission pursuant to the federal Water Quality Act of 1987.   "Revolving fund" means the Mississippi Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund created under Section 49-17-85.   "State" means the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 49-17-89 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 49 - Conservation and Ecology|Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air|Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund|§ 49-17-89. Borrowing of monies, issuance of securities, etc., by political subdivisions authorized; issuance of municipal securities; validation of securities; provisions of section supplemental

  Political subdivisions are hereby authorized to borrow monies under the provisions of Sections 49-17-81 through 49-17-89, to issue municipal securities to evidence such loans, and to enter into such other agreements necessary for such loans and municipal securities on such terms and conditions as such political subdivisions shall deem necessary and advisable.   In connection with the issuance of municipal securities by political subdivisions to evidence loans under the provisions of this chapter and as may be required by Section 31-25-1 et seq., the following provisions shall specifically apply:   No notice of intent to issue municipal securities as may otherwise be required by state law shall be required.   The governing body of the political subdivision shall adopt such resolutions as may be necessary to borrow monies under this chapter, to issue and sell municipal securities to evidence such loans, and to approve and authorize the execution of any agreements related thereto.   Such loans and municipal securities shall be secured as provided for in Section 49-17-87.   Such loans and municipal securities shall not be deemed general obligations.   Such municipal securities shall be sold only to evidence the repayment of a loan under this chapter and may be sold at such price or prices, in such form, and subject to such terms and conditions of issue, redemption and maturity, rate of interest and time of payment of interest as otherwise provided for a loan under this chapter.   A political subdivision may pay all expenses, premiums, fees and commissions which it may deem necessary and advantageous in connection with any loan and the issuance and sale of municipal securities under this chapter.   Municipal securities issued under this chapter need not be validated as provided in Section 31-13-1 et seq.   This section shall be deemed to provide an additional, alternate and complete method for the doing of the things authorized hereby and shall be deemed and construed to be supplemental to any provisions of any other laws and not in derogation of any such provisions. In connection with the issuance of municipal securities under this chapter, a political subdivision shall not be required to comply with the provisions of any other law except as provided herein.