HB610 Alabama 2014 Session

This bill would comprehensively regulate dam safety in Alabama by the Office of Water Resources of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. The bill would establish statewide procedures for the construction, alteration, repair, operation, abandonment, and removal of dams. The bill would require this act to be administered by a licensed engineer

Relating to dam safety in Alabama; to provide for the regulation of the construction, alteration, repair, operation, abandonment, and removal of dams; to provide defined terms; to provide for administrative provisions and powers of the Office of Water Resources of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (the office); to provide for investigations and reviews of facilities; to provide for the adoption of standards for dams and reservoirs; to provide for the application process, fees, inspections, certificates of approval, emergency actions, funding of the program for dam regulation, and civil penalties for violators by the office.