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SC Code § 48-46-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 46 - Atlantic Interstate Low-level Radioactive Waste Compact Implementation Act|Section 48-46-20. Purpose.

 The purpose of this act is to establish South Carolina as a member of the Atlantic Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact, known in federal statute as the "Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact" and to authorize and direct specific processes and procedures that are necessary to implement South Carolina's responsibilities in the compact.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 357, Section 1.
SC Code § 48-46-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 46 - Atlantic Interstate Low-level Radioactive Waste Compact Implementation Act|Section 48-46-50. Appointment of commissioners, alternate commissioners, and technical representatives from certain state agencies to Atlantic Compact Commission; restrictions on voting authority of commissioners.

 (A) The Governor shall appoint two commissioners to the Atlantic Compact Commission and may appoint up to two alternate commissioners. These alternate commissioners may participate in meetings of the compact commission in lieu of and upon the request of a South Carolina commissioner. Technical representatives from the Department of Health and Environmental Control, the office, the PSC, and other state agencies may participate in relevant portions of meetings of the compact commission upon the request of a commissioner, alternate commissioner, or staff of the compact commission, or as called for in the compact commission bylaws.  (B) South Carolina commissioners or alternate commissioners to the compact commission may not vote affirmatively on any motion to admit new member states to the compact unless that state volunteers to host a regional disposal facility.  (C) Compact commissioners or alternate commissioners to the Atlantic Compact Commission may not vote to approve a regional management plan or any other plan or policy that allows for acceptance at the Barnwell regional disposal facility of more than a total of 800,000 cubic feet of waste from Connecticut and New Jersey.  (D) South Carolina's commissioners or alternate commissioners to the compact commission shall cast any applicable votes on the compact commission in a manner that authorizes the importation of waste into the region for purposes of disposal at a regional disposal facility in South Carolina so long as importation would not result in the facility accepting more than the following total volumes of all waste:  (1) 160,000 cubic feet in fiscal year 2001;  (2) 80,000 cubic feet in fiscal year 2002;  (3) 70,000 cubic feet in fiscal year 2003;  (4) 60,000 cubic feet in fiscal year 2004;  (5) 50,000 cubic feet in fiscal year 2005;  (6) 45,000 cubic feet in fiscal year 2006;  (7) 40,000 cubic feet in fiscal year 2007;  (8) 35,000 cubic feet in fiscal year 2008.  South Carolina's commissioners or alternate commissioners shall not vote to approve the importation of waste into the region for purposes of disposal in any fiscal year after 2008.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 357, Section 1; 2014 Act No. 121 (S.22), Pt V, Section 7.GG, eff July 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2014 Act No. 121, Section 7.GG, in subsection (A), substituted "the office" for "the board".
SC Code § 48-46-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 46 - Atlantic Interstate Low-level Radioactive Waste Compact Implementation Act|Section 48-46-70. Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact incorporated by reference.

 The Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact, P.L. 99-240, Section 227, 99 Stat. 1909 (1985) as it existed on the date this act was enacted, is hereby incorporated by reference, and all terms and conditions contained therein shall have full force and effect as if set forth herein in their entirety. In addition to the express limitations on non-host state and compact commission liability provided in the Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact, South Carolina will indemnify the Atlantic Compact Commission or any of the other party states for any damages incurred solely because of South Carolina's membership in the compact and for any damages associated with any injury to persons or property during the institutional control period resulting from the radioactive and waste management operations of the regional facility.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 357, Section 1.
SC Code § 48-46-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 46 - Atlantic Interstate Low-level Radioactive Waste Compact Implementation Act|Section 48-46-80. Adjustment of license fees for Low-Level Radioactive Waste Shallow Land Disposal.

 Pursuant to Section 48-2-10 et seq., the Department of Health and Environmental Control may adjust the radioactive materials license fee for Low-Level Radioactive Waste Shallow Land Disposal in Regulation 61-30 in an amount that will offset changes to its annual operating budget caused by projected increases or decreases in the number of permittees expected to pay fees for Radioactive Waste Transport Permits under the same regulation for shipment of low-level radioactive waste for disposal within the State.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 357, Section 1.
SC Code § 48-46-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 46 - Atlantic Interstate Low-level Radioactive Waste Compact Implementation Act|Section 48-46-90. Custody and maintenance of Barnwell site following closure.

 (A) In accordance with Section 13-7-30, the office, or its designee, is responsible for extended custody and maintenance of the Barnwell site following closure and license transfer from the facility operator. The Department of Health and Environmental Control is responsible for continued site monitoring.  (B) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to alter or diminish the existing statutory authority of the Department of Health and Environmental Control to regulate activities involving radioactive materials and radioactive wastes.  HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 357, Section 1; 2014 Act No. 121 (S.22), Pt V, Section 7.II, eff July 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2014 Act No. 121, Section 7.II, in subsection (A), substituted "the office" for "the board".
SC Code § 48-49-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 49 - South Carolina Mountain Ridge Protection Act Of 1984|Section 48-49-10. Short title.

 This chapter known and may be cited as the South Carolina Mountain Ridge Protection Act of 1984.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 444, Section 1.
SC Code § 48-49-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 49 - South Carolina Mountain Ridge Protection Act Of 1984|Section 48-49-20. Legislative findings.

 The General Assembly finds that the construction of tall or major buildings and structures on the ridges and higher elevations of South Carolina's mountains can cause unusual problems and hazards to the residents of and to visitors to the mountains. Supplying water to, and disposing of the sewage from, buildings at high elevations with significant numbers of residents may infringe on the groundwater rights and endanger the health of those persons living at lower elevations. Providing fire protection may be difficult given the lack of water supply and pressure and the possibility that fire will be fanned by high winds. Extremes of weather can endanger buildings, structures, vehicles, and persons. Tall or major buildings and structures located on ridges are a hazard to air navigation and persons on the ground and detract from the natural beauty of the mountains. Finally, the construction of tall buildings or structures within or in visible proximity to any such mountain ridges would mar, destroy, or greatly damage their natural beauty and greatly reduce their attractiveness to both the citizens of this State and to visitors to our State. For these reasons, it is imperative that the State protect this unique, valuable, and enduring asset against the consequences of this unsightly construction.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 444, Section 2.
SC Code § 48-49-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 49 - South Carolina Mountain Ridge Protection Act Of 1984|Section 48-49-30. Definitions.

 The following words unless the context clearly indicates otherwise have the following meanings:  (1) "Person" has that meaning as found in Section 2-7-30 of the 1976 Code but also includes the State of South Carolina and its political subdivisions. A person doing business in or maintaining an office within a county or municipality is deemed to be a resident thereof for purposes of this chapter.  (2) "Tall building or structure" means any building or structure or portion of any building or structure, any part of which has, or would have upon construction, a height of more than forty-two feet measured from the highest elevation of the natural surface of the land on or over which the building or structure is constructed. This definition also includes any building or structure, regardless of where it is located, if any part of it extends more than forty-two feet above the lowest point of the protected mountain ridge located closest to the building or structure. "Tall buildings or structures" do not include:  (a) Water, radio, telephone or television towers, or any equipment for the transmission of electricity or communications or both.  (b) Structures of a relatively slender nature and minor vertical projections of a parent building, including chimneys, flagpoles, flues, spires, steeples, belfries, cupolas, antennas, poles, wires, or windmills.  (c) Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places.  (3) "Construction" means and includes reconstruction, alteration, or expansion.  (4) "Ridge" means the elongated crest or series of crests at the apex or uppermost point of intersection between two opposite slopes or sides of a mountain and includes all land within one hundred feet below the elevation of any portion of such line or surface along the crest.  (5) "Protected mountain ridges" means all ridges whose elevation is two thousand five hundred feet above sea level or more.  (6) "Crest" means the uppermost line of a mountain or chain of mountains from which the land falls away on at least two sides to a lower elevation or elevations.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 444, Section 3.
SC Code § 48-49-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 49 - South Carolina Mountain Ridge Protection Act Of 1984|Section 48-49-40. Authorization by county or municipality for construction of tall buildings or furnishing of utility services.

 (a) No county or municipality may authorize the construction of, and no person may construct, a tall building or structure on any protected mountain ridge.  (b) No county or municipality may authorize the providing of the following utility services to any building or structure constructed in violation of subsection (a) of this section: electricity, telephone, gas, water, sewer, or septic system.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 444, Section 4.
SC Code § 48-49-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 49 - South Carolina Mountain Ridge Protection Act Of 1984|Section 48-49-50. Previously existing buildings.

 Section 48-49-40 applies to buildings that existed upon the effective date of this chapter as follows:  (1) No reconstruction, alteration, or expansion may aggravate or intensify a violation by an existing building or structure that did not comply with Section 48-49-40 upon its effective date.  (2) No reconstruction, alteration, or expansion may cause or create a violation by an existing building or structure that did comply with Section 48-49-40 upon its effective date.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 444, Section 5.
SC Code § 48-49-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 49 - South Carolina Mountain Ridge Protection Act Of 1984|Section 48-49-60. Violations; penalties; civil remedies.

 (a) A person violating the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than twenty-five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. In addition, any county or municipality is authorized to seek injunctive relief enjoining violations of this chapter.  (b) Any person injured by a violation of this chapter or any person who resides in the county in which the violation occurred may bring a civil action against the person alleged to be in violation. The action may seek:  (1) Injunctive relief; or  (2) An order enforcing the provision violated; or  (3) Damages caused by the violation; or  (4) Both damages and injunctive relief; or  (5) Both damages and an enforcement order; or  (6) Both an enforcement order and injunctive relief.  If actual damages as found by the court or jury in suits brought under this subsection are five hundred dollars or less, the plaintiff must be awarded not less than five hundred dollars; if the amount of actual damages as found by the court or jury is greater than five hundred dollars, the plaintiff shall receive damages in the amount so found. Injunctive relief or an enforcement order under this subsection must be based upon a threatened injury, an actual injury, or both.  Civil actions under this subsection must be brought in the circuit court of the county in which the alleged violation occurred. The court, in issuing any final order in any action brought pursuant to this section, may award costs of litigation, including reasonable attorney and expert-witness fees, to any party, whenever it determines that such an award is appropriate. The court may, if a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction is sought, require the filing of a bond or equivalent security, the amount of such bond or security to be determined by the court. Nothing in this section shall restrict any right which any person or class of persons may have under the common law or under any statute to seek injunctive or other relief.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 444, Section 6; 1993 Act No. 184, Section 244.
SC Code § 48-49-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 49 - South Carolina Mountain Ridge Protection Act Of 1984|Section 48-49-70. Identification of protected mountain ridge crests.

 (a) The Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism shall identify the protected mountain ridge crests in each county by showing them on a map or drawing, describing them in a document, or any combination thereof. These maps, drawings, or documents shall identify the protected mountain ridges as defined in Section 48-49-30 and such other mountain ridges as any county may request, and shall specify those protected mountain ridges that serve as all or part of the boundary line between two counties. By January 1, 1985, the map, drawing, or document tentatively identifying the protected mountain ridge crests of each county must be filed with the governing body of that county, with the municipal governing body of each municipality that requests it, and with the register of deeds or the clerk of court in the county where the land lies, and made available for inspection at the Department's offices in Columbia.  (b) Determinations by the Department of elevations under this section are conclusive in the absence of fraud.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 444, Section 7; 1997 Act No. 34, Section 1.  Code Commissioner's Note  1997 Act No. 34, Section 1, directed the Code Commissioner to change all references to "Register of Mesne Conveyances" to "Register of Deeds" wherever appearing in the 1976 Code of Laws.
SC Code § 48-49-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 49 - South Carolina Mountain Ridge Protection Act Of 1984|Section 48-49-80. Power of counties or municipalities to enact ordinances restricting construction on mountain ridges.

 Nothing in this chapter shall prevent any county or municipality from enacting ordinances pursuant to law to prohibit or restrict development or construction on any mountain ridge regardless of elevation, but in no event shall any such ordinance result in less stringent protection than that provided for in this chapter.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 444, Section 8.
SC Code § 48-52-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 52 - Energy Efficiency|Section 48-52-10. Short title.

 This chapter may be cited as the "South Carolina Energy Efficiency Act".  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 449, Part II, Section 1.
SC Code § 48-52-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 52 - Energy Efficiency|Section 48-52-210. Policy and purpose.

 (A) It is the policy of this State to have a comprehensive state energy plan that maximizes to the extent practical environmental quality and energy conservation and efficiency and minimizes the cost of energy throughout the State. To implement this policy there is adopted the Plan for State Energy Policy.  (B) The purpose of the plan is to:  (1) ensure access to energy supplies at the lowest practical environmental and economic cost;  (2) ensure long-term access to adequate, reliable energy supplies;  (3) ensure that demand-side options are pursued wherever economically and environmentally practical;  (4) encourage the development and use of clean energy resources, including nuclear energy, energy conservation and efficiency, and indigenous, renewable energy resources;  (5) ensure that basic energy needs of all citizens, including low income citizens, are met;  (6) ensure that energy vulnerability to international events is minimized;  (7) ensure that energy-related decisions promote the economic and environmental well-being of the State and maximize the ability of South Carolina to attract retirees, tourists, and industrial and service-related jobs;  (8) ensure that short-term energy decisions do not conflict with long-range energy needs;  (9) ensure that internal governmental energy use patterns are consistent with the state's long-range interests;  (10) ensure that state government is organized appropriately to handle energy matters in the best public interest;  (11) ensure that governmental energy-related tax, expenditure, and regulatory policies are appropriate, and, wherever possible, maximize the long-range benefits of competition; and  (12) ensure that any future energy strategy that promotes carbon-free, nongreenhouse gas emitting sources includes nuclear energy, renewable resources, and energy conservation and efficiency.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 449, Part II, Section 1; 2009 Act No. 19, Section 3, eff May 19, 2009.  Effect of Amendment  The 2009 amendment, in item (4), added "clean energy resources, including nuclear energy, energy conservation and efficiency, and", and added item (12) relating to future energy strategy.
SC Code § 48-52-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 52 - Energy Efficiency|Section 48-52-220. "Renewable energy resources" defined.

 For the purposes of this chapter, "renewable energy resources" means energy conservation and efficiency, solar photovoltaic energy, solar thermal energy, wind power, hydroelectric power, geothermal energy, tidal energy, wave energy, recycling, hydrogen fuel derived from renewable resources, biomass energy, energy derived from municipal and other solid waste, energy derived from waste oil, energy derived from waste tires, and landfill gas.  HISTORY: 2009 Act No. 19, Section 1, eff May 19, 2009.
SC Code § 48-52-410 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 52 - Energy Efficiency|Section 48-52-410. State Energy Office established; purpose.

 There is established the State Energy Office within the Office of Regulatory Staff which shall serve as the principal energy planning entity for the State. Its primary purpose is to develop and implement a well-balanced energy strategy and to increase the efficiency of use of all energy sources throughout South Carolina through the implementation of the Plan for State Energy Policy. The State Energy Office must not function as a regulatory body.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 449, Part II, Section 1; 2014 Act No. 121 (S.22), Pt VI, Section 11, eff July 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2014 Act No. 121, Section 11, substituted "Office of Regulatory Staff" for "State Budget and Control Board".
SC Code § 48-52-425 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 52 - Energy Efficiency|Section 48-52-425. Limitation on amount school districts must spend on energy conservation.

 No public school district may be required to expend more than one hundred dollars a year to comply with the provisions of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 449, Pt. II, Section 4.
SC Code § 48-52-430 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 52 - Energy Efficiency|Section 48-52-430. Annual state energy action plan.

 The State Energy Office annually shall submit to the Governor and the Public Utility Review Committee, the House Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee, and the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee a state energy action plan that includes, but is not limited to:  (a) activities by the State Energy Office to carry out the Plan for State Energy Policy;  (b) recommendations for long-term quantitative and qualitative energy goals for the residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, governmental, and utility sectors, and measures of progress for these goals;  (c) identification of obstacles to efficiency for which legislative, regulatory, or other governmental remedies are appropriate.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 449, Part II, Section 1; 2009 Act No. 19, Section 5, eff May 19, 2009.  Effect of Amendment  The 2009 amendment, in the introductory paragraph, substituted "the Public Utility Review Committee, the House Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee, and the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee" for "Joint Legislative Committee on Energy".
SC Code § 48-52-435 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 52 - Energy Efficiency|Section 48-52-435. Prior approval required for studies of alternative energy usage or conservation measures.

 In order to avoid duplicative studies, funds shall not be expended by state agencies for studies investigating alternative energy usage or conservation measures without prior approval of the State Energy Office and the Joint Legislative Committee on Energy.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 145, Part II, Section 8.
SC Code § 48-52-450 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation|Chapter 52 - Energy Efficiency|Section 48-52-450. Consolidation of energy-related offices and programs.

 Where possible, the State Energy Office shall encourage consolidating other offices or programs in state government related to energy, energy efficiency, and energy reliability.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 449, Part II, Section 1.