HB376 Alabama 2017 Session

Under existing law, certain privately owned wastewater systems, including community wastewater systems and cluster wastewater systems, are subject to regulation under certain conditions by the Department of Environmental Management, the Department of Public Health, and the Public Service Commission. The terms "cluster wastewater system," "community wastewater system," and "small-flow cluster systems" exclude systems that discharge directly to the surface waters of the state

This bill would remove the exclusions described above from the definitions

To amend Section 22-25B-1 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the regulation of privately owned wastewater systems; to further provide for the definition of cluster wastewater systems, community wastewater systems, and small-flow cluster systems to delete the exclusions for systems that discharge directly into the surface waters of the state.