(a) There is hereby created a fund known as the Pollution Control Grant Fund. This fund shall consist of

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Terms Used In Alabama Code 22-22A-16

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(1) All appropriations made to the fund; and
(2) All grants, gifts, bequests or donations made to the fund from any source whatsoever. This fund shall be used and expended by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management in accordance with the terms of the appropriation, gift, bequest, grant or donation from which said moneys are derived and in the absence of such terms or stipulations, shall be expended by said department in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b). All necessary expenses of said department in implementing the provisions of this section shall likewise be paid out of the fund on the requisition of the director of said department as may be deemed advisable.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (a), the Alabama Department of Environmental Management is authorized to make grants to any county, municipality or public corporation, agency or instrumentality organized under the laws of the state, for the purpose of carrying out any air, land or water pollution control, prevention or abatement practices, measures, experiments or research, from the Pollution Control Grant Fund and to enter into and carry out contracts or agreements in connection therewith and include in any contract or agreement such conditions as it may deem reasonable and appropriate.
(c) Acting through the Environmental Management Commission, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management is authorized to promulgate rules, regulations and standards to carry out the provisions of this section.
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