The Act prohibits smoking in all enclosed public places in Georgia. The Act exempts private residences, hotel and motel rooms (as long as the hotel or motel does not designate more than 20% of the rooms as smoking), retail tobacco stores, long term care facilities, outdoor areas of employment, smoking
The Act replaces the Georgia rule relating to the development of water management plans for a series of rivers in Georgia by establishing a system to develop a comprehensive state-wide water management plan. The Act creates a water council that will work in cooperation with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division
The Act requires owners of large public waste-water treatment facilities to privatize the operation and maintenance of their systems if certain violations of their permits occur. The Act sets forth schedules, milestones, and standards for the privatization process. The Act creates a privatization oversight committee and authorizes this committee to
Act 6 enacts the Alabama-Coose-Tallapoosa between Georgia and Alabama of surface waters from the basin. Act 7 enacts the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact for allocation among Alabama, Florida, and Georgia of surface waters from the basin. The Acts do not provide specific percentages or formulas under which the surface waters
The Act mandates that the holders of certain waste water discharge permits who fail to meet existing phosphorous reduction standards shall adopt a schedule of construction milestones to reach amended standards established by the Act. The Act further imposes mandatory monetary penalties for failure to meet those milestones. The Act
The Act alters the reporting fees and liability of owners of property that falls under Georgia's Hazardous Waste Management laws. The Act exempts certain person from liability for clean-up costs and punitive damages by changing the definition of "a person who has contributed or who is contributing
The Act extends the maximum duration of permits for withdrawal, diversion, or impoundment of surface waters and ground waters to fifty years. Permits for more than twenty-five years must be based on a water conservation and development plan. The Act also provides for administrative review of decisions under this title.
The Act grants authority to the Director of the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources to impose either effluent limitations or best management practices for erosion and sedimentation control in general water pollution discharge permits. Additionally, the Act requires, as a minimum, that rules and regulations governing
The Act requires the Environmental Protection Division to compile and update an inventory of hazardous sites which list all the locations in Georgia where substantial amounts of hazardous waste have been dumped or released. The Act also sets forth disclosure requirements by owners of property contaminated with hazardous waste, and
The Act gives the Board of Natural Resources the power to adopt technical regulations for the land application of sewage sludge. Anyone wishing to apply sludge to land must obtain permission from the Director of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD). The local governing authority where the land application site
The Act seeks to reduce the amount of solid waste generated in the state by imposing restrictions on the disposal of tires and yard trimmings and by utilizing source reduction and planning methodologies. In addition, the Act seeks to expand Georgia's current municipal solid waste landfill space by
The Act makes it unlawful to dump waste in places such as public highways, lakes or rivers, or private property. An individual who dumps waste, other than biomedical waste, hazardous waste, or hazardous substances, not in excess of 500 pounds or 100 cubic feet is guilty of a misdemeanor. If
