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AR Code § 8-7-1103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 11 - Voluntary Cleanup|§ 8-7-1103. Division's authority

 (a) The Division of Environmental Quality shall have authority regarding a voluntary response program to provide the following:  (1) Opportunities for technical assistance for voluntary response actions;  (2) Adequate opportunities for public participation, including prior notice and opportunity for comment in appropriate circumstances, in selecting response actions;  (3) Streamlined procedures to ensure expeditious voluntary response actions;  (4) Oversight and enforcement authorities or other mechanisms that are adequate to ensure that:  (A) Voluntary response actions will protect human health and the environment and be conducted in accordance with applicable federal and state laws; and  (B) If the person conducting the voluntary response action fails to complete the necessary response activities, including operation and maintenance or long-term monitoring activities, the necessary response activities are completed;    (5) Mechanisms for approval of a voluntary response action plan; and  (6)  (A) A requirement for certification or similar documentation from the division to the person conducting the voluntary response action indicating that the response is complete.  (B) This certification shall document any conditions, restrictions, or limitations on the release from liability for contamination existing at the site before the division and the prospective purchaser enter into an implementing agreement.      (b) The division may establish and administer a revolving loan fund to make secured and unsecured loans or grants to eligible participants for the purpose of financing the assessment, investigation, or remedial actions at abandoned industrial, commercial, or agricultural sites, or at abandoned residential property.
AR Code § 8-7-1201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 12 - Abandoned Agricultural Pesticide Disposal Act|§ 8-7-1201. Title

 This subchapter may be known and may be cited as the “Abandoned Agricultural Pesticide Disposal Act”.
AR Code § 8-7-1202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 12 - Abandoned Agricultural Pesticide Disposal Act|§ 8-7-1202. Purpose

 It is the purpose of this subchapter to protect the citizens of the state and the environment by providing for the safe and proper disposal of abandoned pesticides used in agriculture and for other uses. Furthermore, it is the purpose of this subchapter to create an Abandoned Pesticide Advisory Board to review and approve proposed pesticide disposal projects, select contractors to dispose of abandoned pesticides used in agriculture and for other uses, and approve payments from the Abandoned Agricultural Pesticide and Plant Regulator Disposal Trust Fund.
AR Code § 8-7-1203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 12 - Abandoned Agricultural Pesticide Disposal Act|§ 8-7-1203. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Abandoned” means chemicals which are no longer used and for which there is no planned use;  (2) “Advisory board” means the Abandoned Pesticide Advisory Board;  (3) “Contractor” means a person who provides services for a fee involving the disposal of abandoned pesticides;  (4) “Fund” means the Abandoned Agricultural Pesticide and Plant Regulator Disposal Trust Fund;  (5) “Pesticide” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for prevention, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pests, or any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant, and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used as a spray adjuvant and for other uses; and  (6)  (A) “Plant regulator” means any substance or mixture of substances intended through physiological action to accelerate or retard the rate of growth of maturation or to otherwise alter the behavior of plants or the produce thereof.  (B) “Plant regulator” does not include substances to the extent that they are intended as plant nutrients, trace elements, nutritional chemicals, plant inoculates, or soil amendments.
AR Code § 8-7-1204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 12 - Abandoned Agricultural Pesticide Disposal Act|§ 8-7-1204. Abandoned Pesticide Advisory Board

 (a) There is created the Abandoned Pesticide Advisory Board.  (b) The board shall be composed of up to six (6) members:  (1) One (1) member shall be a representative from the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation;  (2) One (1) member shall be a representative from the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission;  (3) One (1) member shall be a representative from the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service;  (4) One (1) member shall be a representative from the Division of Environmental Quality;  (5) One (1) member may be a representative from the United States Natural Resources Conservation Service; and  (6) One (1) member shall be a representative from the Department of Agriculture, who shall serve as the Chair of the Abandoned Pesticide Advisory Board.    (c) Members of the board shall serve without compensation.
AR Code § 8-7-1205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 12 - Abandoned Agricultural Pesticide Disposal Act|§ 8-7-1205. Powers and duties of the board

 The Abandoned Pesticide Advisory Board shall have the following powers and duties:   (1) To identify any abandoned pesticides which shall be excluded from the collection and disposal program;  (2) To advise and make recommendations to the State Plant Board regarding projects for collecting and disposing of abandoned pesticides;  (3) To advise and make recommendations to the State Plant Board on the issuance of requests for proposals from contractors;  (4) To review and evaluate proposals for the collection and disposal of abandoned pesticides;  (5) To select proposals for the collection and disposal of abandoned pesticides to be implemented; and  (6) To approve payments from the Abandoned Agricultural Pesticide and Plant Regulator Disposal Trust Fund for collection and disposal projects.
AR Code § 8-7-1206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 12 - Abandoned Agricultural Pesticide Disposal Act|§ 8-7-1206. Abandoned pesticide disposal

 (a)  (1) Moneys received into the Abandoned Agricultural Pesticide and Plant Regulator Disposal Trust Fund shall be from gifts, grants, or funds from entities other than the State Plant Board and from a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) per registered pesticide per registrant per year levied by the State Plant Board for the specific purpose of funding the disposal of abandoned pesticides.  (2) This fee shall be known as the “Abandoned Pesticide Disposal Fee” and shall not be a part of the pesticide registration fee collected pursuant to § 2-16-407(f).  (3) The Abandoned Pesticide Disposal Fee shall not apply to products classified as:  (A) “Sanitizers and disinfectants” by the State Plant Board;  (B) Aerosol products which are not labeled for agricultural use;  (C) Insect repellants which are labeled for use on the human body or clothing;  (D) Silica gels and other nonvolatile ready-to-use paste, foam, or gel formulations of insecticidal baits;  (E) Nonvolatile insecticidal baits in tamper-resistant bait stations;  (F) Insecticidal flea and tick collars and spot-on flea treatments for dogs and cats; or  (G) Insecticidal cattle ear tags.    (4) Collection of the Abandoned Pesticide Disposal Fee shall be discontinued upon completion of the abandoned pesticide collection program.  (5) Moneys received into the fund shall be utilized by the State Plant Board, as authorized by the Abandoned Pesticide Advisory Board, to pay for projects and other activities relating to the collection and disposal of abandoned pesticides and for administrative support.  (6) The total allocation of funds for administrative support shall not exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) per biennium.    (b)  (1) The State Plant Board shall administer the program relating to the collection and disposal of abandoned pesticides, as authorized by the Abandoned Pesticide Advisory Board.  (2) The duties of the State Plant Board shall include:  (A) Developing and issuing requests for proposals from contractors to collect and dispose of abandoned pesticides;  (B) Contracting for the collection and disposal of abandoned pesticides; and  (C) Paying contractors for services relating to the collection and disposal of abandoned pesticides.
AR Code § 8-7-1301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 13 - Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Consultant Act|§ 8-7-1301. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Consultant Act”.
AR Code § 8-7-1302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 13 - Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Consultant Act|§ 8-7-1302. Purpose

 It is the purpose of this subchapter to authorize the Division of Environmental Quality to establish and administer a certification program to maintain a list of Phase I consultants who meet the minimum qualifications for an environmental professional who undertakes a Phase I environmental site assessment, referred to as “all appropriate inquiry” under the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, Pub. L. No. 107-118, as it exists on January 1, 2007, or a Phase I environmental site assessment under the American Society for Testing and Materials standard E1527-05 as in effect on January 1, 2007.
AR Code § 8-7-1303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 13 - Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Consultant Act|§ 8-7-1303. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Person” means any individual, corporation, company, firm, partnership, association, trust, joint-stock company or trust, venture, state or the United States Government or agency, or any other legal entity however organized;  (2) “Phase I consultant” means a person that performs a Phase I environmental site assessment for a fee or in conjunction with other services for which a fee is charged; and  (3) “Phase I environmental site assessment” means an assessment defined as “all appropriate inquiry” under the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, Pub. L. No. 107-118, and the rules promulgated under the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act or a Phase I environmental site assessment as that term is used in the American Society for Testing and Materials standard E1527-00 as in effect on January 1, 2005.
AR Code § 8-7-1304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 13 - Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Consultant Act|§ 8-7-1304. Powers and duties

 (a) The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality shall maintain and make available to the public a list of Phase I consultants who meet the minimum qualifications for an environmental professional who undertakes a Phase I environmental site assessment, referred to as “all appropriate inquiry” under the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, Pub. L. No. 107-118, and the rules promulgated under the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act.  (b) The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission shall promulgate rules to implement this subchapter.
AR Code § 8-7-1311 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 13 - Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Consultant Act|§ 8-7-1311. Fees

 (a)  (1) Under rules promulgated by the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission, the Division of Environmental Quality may assess fees to Phase I consultants who apply to be placed on the list maintained under § 8-7-1304.  (2) Fees shall be reasonable and appropriate and subject to periodic review.    (b) All fees collected under this subchapter shall be deposited into the Hazardous Waste Permit Fund, § 19-6-434.  (c) Fees collected under this subchapter shall be used for the purposes of administering this subchapter.
AR Code § 8-7-1401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 14 - Controlled Substances Contaminated Property Cleanup Act|§ 8-7-1401. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Controlled Substances Contaminated Property Cleanup Act”.
AR Code § 8-7-1402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 14 - Controlled Substances Contaminated Property Cleanup Act|§ 8-7-1402. Professional cleanup of properties contaminated through the manufacture of controlled substances

 (a) The Division of Environmental Quality shall:  (1) Establish and administer a certification program to:  (A) Certify contractors who choose to undertake the inspection, sampling, remediation, and removal of contaminated materials from property contaminated through the manufacture of controlled substances; and  (B) Require as a condition of certification that the contractors demonstrate that they have the qualifications required to undertake inspection, sampling, remediation, and removal of contaminated materials from property contaminated through the manufacture of controlled substances;    (2) Establish standards for the remediation of properties contaminated through the manufacture of controlled substances;  (3) Make the certification program rules and the remediation standards available to law enforcement officials and the public:  (A) On the division's website; and  (B) In hard copy upon request to the division; and    (4) Annually review and update the remediation standards.    (b)  (1) The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission shall promulgate rules to implement the certification program for contractors in the inspection, sampling, remediation, and removal of contaminated materials from property contaminated through the manufacture of controlled substances.  (2) The rules promulgated by the commission under this section shall include without limitation:  (A) Application forms for certification;  (B) Continuing education requirements;  (C) Professional and technical standards for certification;  (D) Renewals of certification;  (E) Procedures for revocation and other actions that affect the status of certification; and  (F) Reasonable fees.
AR Code § 8-7-1403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 14 - Controlled Substances Contaminated Property Cleanup Act|§ 8-7-1403. Reporting of properties contaminated through the manufacture of controlled substances

 (a) If a private property owner finds an abandoned laboratory for the manufacture of controlled substances on his or her property and there has been no active on-site law enforcement involvement, the private property owner shall notify local law enforcement for proper removal of contaminated material.  (b)  (1) If a property owner finds or becomes aware of evidence of a laboratory for the manufacture of controlled substances on his or her property, the property owner shall have the property inspected in accordance with the guidelines established by the Division of Environmental Quality under this subchapter by a contractor certified by the division under § 8-7-1402.  (2) If the contractor selected by the property owner under subdivision (b)(1) of this section verifies that a laboratory for the manufacture of controlled substances has been on the property, the contractor shall notify the division, and the division shall place the property on the contaminated properties list required under § 8-7-1404.
AR Code § 8-7-1404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 14 - Controlled Substances Contaminated Property Cleanup Act|§ 8-7-1404. Recordkeeping required

 (a) The Division of Environmental Quality shall maintain records concerning properties contaminated through the manufacture of controlled substances.  (b) The division shall:  (1) Create a list of properties contaminated through the manufacture of controlled substances;  (2) Place a contaminated property on the contaminated properties list;  (3) Not determine that a property has been adequately remediated unless:  (A) The inspection, sampling, remediation, and removal of contaminated materials is performed:  (i) By or under the direction and responsible charge of an individual who has obtained a certification under the rules established by the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission under this subchapter; or  (ii) By an employee of a public agency that has the responsibility of regulatory enforcement, emergency response, the protection of public health and welfare, or the protection of the environment while the employee is acting in the course of that employment; and    (B) The property has met the remediation standards developed by the division;    (4)  (A) Post the results of a cleanup on the division's website for ten (10) working days after the division determines that the property has been adequately remediated.  (B) After the ten (10) working days of posting required under subdivision (b)(4)(A) of this section, the division shall remove from the division's website the formerly contaminated property and the results of the cleanup; and    (5) Remove a property from the list when the division finds that the property has been adequately remediated.    (c)  (1) The division shall make the list of properties contaminated through the manufacture of controlled substances available to law enforcement officials and to the public:  (A) On the division's website; and  (B) In hard copy upon request to the division.    (2) The division shall keep hard copies of the information required under this section until the division has removed the property from the list of properties contaminated through the manufacture of controlled substances.
AR Code § 8-7-1406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 14 - Controlled Substances Contaminated Property Cleanup Act|§ 8-7-1406. Remediated property

 (a) After property contaminated through the manufacture of controlled substances is remediated and the property owner receives official notification from the Division of Environmental Quality, no person, including the property owner, landlord, and real estate agent, is required to report or otherwise disclose the past contamination.  (b) Unless retention is mandated by federal law, the division shall destroy all copies of information required to be kept under this subchapter that refer to a specific property location once the property is officially removed from the contaminated properties list.
AR Code § 8-7-1407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 7 - Hazardous Substances|Subchapter 14 - Controlled Substances Contaminated Property Cleanup Act|§ 8-7-1407. Penalties

 Any person who pleads guilty or nolo contendere to or is found guilty of violating § 8-7-1405(d)(7)(D) or § 8-7-1405(d)(7)(E) is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
AR Code § 8-8-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 8 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 1 - Interstate Environmental Compact|§ 8-8-101. Purpose

 (a) The General Assembly recognizes that:  (1) The purity and life-giving qualities of our environment are of primary concern to the people of Arkansas and to all Americans;  (2) The ultimate responsibility for the quality of the Arkansas environment rests upon the state government; and  (3) Ecological systems and environmental problems cross state boundaries.    (b) Therefore, the General Assembly recognizes that the discharge of this responsibility can be enhanced by acting in concert and cooperation with our sister states and with the federal government, insofar as such cooperative governmental efforts are consistent with the laws of the State of Arkansas. For these reasons, the Interstate Environmental Compact is approved.
AR Code § 8-8-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 8 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 1 - Interstate Environmental Compact|§ 8-8-103. Supplementary agreement appropriations

 Any supplementary agreement entered into pursuant to Article 4 of the Interstate Environmental Compact and requiring the expenditure of funds or the assumption of an obligation to expend funds shall not become effective as to this state prior to the making of an appropriation therefor by the General Assembly, with the following exceptions:   (1) The Governor may use special appropriations as are made available for emergency purposes;  (2) The Governor may use any such funds as are made available to him or her by the United States Government or any other source specifically for the creation and implementation of supplemental agreements under this subchapter; and  (3) Where an agency of the state can better carry out the purpose for which it was created by the legislature by cooperative actions with other states under the terms of the compact, that agency may, with the consent of the Governor, expend funds appropriated to the agency for such purposes.
AR Code § 8-8-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 8 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 2 - Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact|§ 8-8-201. Penalties

 (a) Any person who violates any provision of this subchapter or commits any unlawful act under this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction, that person shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than one (1) year or a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or subject to both such fine and imprisonment. Each day or part of a day during which the violation is continued or repeated shall constitute a separate offense.  (b) Any person who violates any provision of this subchapter or commits any unlawful act under this subchapter shall be subject to a civil penalty in such amount as the court shall find appropriate, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per day of such violation, to the payment of any expenses reasonably incurred by the state in removing, correcting, or terminating any adverse effects resulting therefrom, including the cost of the investigation, inspection, or survey establishing such violation or unlawful act, and the payment to the state of reasonable compensation of any actual damage resulting therefrom.
AR Code § 8-8-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 8 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 2 - Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact|§ 8-8-203. State member and alternate on commission

 Arkansas shall have one (1) member and one (1) alternate member of the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission. The member and alternate member shall be appointed by the Governor after receiving the advice of the Joint Committee on Energy. Such appointments shall be for terms of two (2) years.
AR Code § 8-8-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 8 - Environmental Law|Chapter 8 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 2 - Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact|§ 8-8-205. Cooperation with commission

 The departments, agencies, and officers of the state and its subdivisions may cooperate with the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission in the furtherance of any of its activities pursuant to the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact.