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Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 6001. Findings, policy and purpose. - (a) Findings. — The General Assembly hereby makes the following...
Subchapter II. Powers and Duties of Secretary and Department
§ 6002. Definitions. - The following words and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed...
§ 6003. Permit — Required. - (a) No person shall, without first having obtained a permit...
§ 6004. Permit — Application; hearing; extension. - (a) Any person desiring to obtain a permit required by...
§ 6005. Enforcement; civil and administrative penalties; expenses. - (a) The Secretary shall enforce this chapter. (b) Whoever violates...
§ 6006. Public hearings. - Any public hearing held by the Secretary concerning any regulation...
§ 6007. Establishment of Environmental Appeals Board. - (a) There is hereby created an Environmental Appeals Board which...
§ 6008. Appeals to Board. - (a) Any person whose interest is substantially affected by any...
§ 6009. Appeal from the Board's decision. - (a) Any person or persons, jointly or severally, or any...
§ 6010. Rules and regulations; plans. - (a) The Secretary may adopt, amend, modify or repeal rules...
§ 6011. Variance. - (a) The Secretary may, upon application of a person (except...
§ 6012. Temporary emergency variances. - (a) Notwithstanding § 6011 of this title, other than subsection...
§ 6013. Criminal penalties. - (a) Any person who wilfully or negligently: (1) Violates §...
§ 6014. Regulatory and compliance information, facility performance and public information. - (a) The Department shall develop an Environmental Information System that...
§ 6015. Interference with Department personnel. - No person shall obstruct, hinder, delay or interfere with, by...
§ 6016. Departmental investigations; witnesses; oaths; attendance. - In furtherance of the policy and purposes of this chapter,...
§ 6017. Sealing noncomplying equipment. - (a) The Department may seal, after consultation with the Attorney...
§ 6018. Cease and desist order. - The Secretary shall have the power to issue an order...
§ 6019. Voluntary compliance. - Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the Department from making...
§ 6020. Liberal construction. - This chapter, being necessary for the welfare of the State...
§ 6021. Federal aid; other funds. - The Department may cooperate with and receive moneys from the...
§ 6022. Temporary limits and procedures for hazardous operations. - Where no rule or regulation has been promulgated which sets...
§ 6023. Licensing of water well contractors, pump installer contractors, drillers, drivers, pump installers, septic tank installers, liquid waste treatment plant operators and liquid waste haulers. - (a) No person shall: (1) Engage in the drilling, boring,...
§ 6024. Right of entry. - The Secretary, or the Secretary's duly authorized designee, in regulating...
§ 6025. Solid waste. - (a) The Secretary shall have exclusive authority to effectuate the...
§ 6026. License fees. - (a) (1) The Secretary may establish fees, subject to approval...
§ 6027. Change of authority. - The word “Secretary” shall be substituted wherever the words “Water...
§ 6028. Report of discharge of pollutant or air contaminant. - (a) Any person who causes or contributes to an environmental...
§ 6029. Limitations on scope of chapter. - This chapter shall not apply to or change the existing...
§ 6030. Approval of water use. - No increase in the amount of water used shall be...
§ 6031. Obligation of recipients of water allocations. - (a) The Secretary shall, when the use of water pursuant...
§ 6032. Licensing of site evaluators, percolation testers and on-site system designers and contractors. - (a) No person shall conduct percolation tests or soil evaluations...
§ 6033. Pretreatment program. - (a) The Secretary shall develop, implement and enforce, and may...
§ 6034. Sewage system cleansers and additives. - (a) No person shall distribute, sell, offer or expose for...
§ 6035. Vessel sewage discharge. - (a) Marina owners/operators for marinas that are located in whole...
§ 6036. Projects of state significance. - The Department shall adopt objective standards and criteria to identify...
§ 6037. Obligation of persons who contaminate drinking water supplies. - (a) (1) The Secretary shall develop and publish the necessary...
§ 6037B. Recreational water. - (a) The Secretary shall provide for the sanitary control of...
§ 6038. Borrow pits. - (a) The Secretary shall develop, implement and enforce, and may...
§ 6039. Debris disposal area remediation. - (a) The Secretary may develop, implement and administer a program...
§ 6040. Requirement for scrap tire piles; enforcement. - (a) The following definitions shall apply to this section: (1)...
§ 6041. Scrap Tire Management Fund. - (a) There shall be established in the State Treasury and...
§ 6042. Civil and administrative penalties; Community Environmental Project Fund. - (a) There is hereby established a Community Environmental Project Fund,...
Subchapter III. Solid Waste Recycling
§ 6051. Findings; intent. - In furtherance of the determination long established in § 6450...
§ 6052. Definitions. - Notwithstanding any definitions in Chapter 60 or 64 of this...
§ 6053. Universal recycling. - The goal of universal recycling is to create an economy...
§ 6054. Delaware Recycling Fund. - (a) There shall be established in the State Treasury and...
§ 6055. Recycling Grants and Low Interest Loan Program. - (a) There is hereby established a competitive Recycling Grants and...
§ 6056. Adopting diversion goals and reporting requirements. - It is the intent of the General Assembly that implementation...
§ 6057. Beverage containers — Findings, intent, prohibitions. - (a) The General Assembly hereby finds that beverage containers are...
§ 6058. Establishment, composition and responsibility of the Recycling Public Advisory Council. - (a) There is hereby established a Recycling Public Advisory Council...
§ 6059. Enforcement, civil and administrative penalties. - (a) Whoever violates this subchapter, or any rule or regulation...
Subchapter IV. Ocean Dumping
§ 6070. Title. - This subchapter shall be known as the “Solid Waste Dumping...
§ 6071. Purpose. - The General Assembly finds that historically millions of tons of...
§ 6072. Definitions. - The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed...
§ 6073. Prevention. - The provisions of any other law, rule or regulation to...
§ 6074. Penalties. - (a) Whoever negligently violates § 6073 of this title shall...
Subchapter V. Water Utilities
§ 6075. Nonutility wells and permits for nonutility wells within a service territory served by a water utility under a certificate of public convenience and necessity. - (a) The Department may not withhold a permit for a...
§ 6076. Transfer of jurisdiction for certificates of public convenience and necessity for water utilities to the Public Service Commission. - On and after July 1, 2001, the Department and Secretary...
Subchapter VI. Source Water Protection
§ 6081. Reporting on source water protection. - (a) The Secretary shall prepare, periodically, a report to the...
§ 6082. Adoption of source water assessment, wellhead protection, and excellent ground-water recharge potential areas by counties and municipalities. - (a) By December 31, 2004, the Department shall develop a...
§ 6083. Adoption of source water assessment, wellhead protection and excellent ground-water recharge potential areas by the Governor's Cabinet Committee on State Planning Issues. - The Department shall make source water assessment, wellhead protection and...
§ 6084. Source Water Protection Citizen and Technical Advisory Committee. - The Secretary shall consult a citizen and technical advisory committee,...
Subchapter VII. Labeling of Plastic Products
§ 6090. Findings; intent. - (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) Recycling of waste...
§ 6091. Definitions. - As used in this subchapter, unless otherwise indicated: (1) “Container”...
§ 6092. Labeling. - (a) On or after July 1, 1992, no person shall...
§ 6093. Penalty; enforcement. - (a) Any person who violates this subchapter or any rule...
Subchapter VIII. Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit Program
§ 6095. Applicability. - This subchapter shall apply to all sources required to obtain...
§ 6096. Title V account. - The Secretary shall establish a separate account entitled the “Clean...
§ 6097. Fees. - (a) The Department shall collect an annual fee from sources...
§ 6098. Application shield. - Except for sources required to have a permit before construction...
§ 6099. Title V Operating Permit Program Advisory Committee. - There shall be established a “Title V Operating Permit Program...
Subchapter IX. Recycling and Waste Reduction
§ 6099A. At-store recycling program. - (a) For purposes of this subchapter, the following definitions shall...