Title 13, ENVIRONMENT

Sec. 4. (a) The board may, in accordance with IC 13-14-9, adopt rules to establish the following: (1) Standards for the following: (A) The issuance of permits for: (i) septage management under section 3 of this chapter; and (ii) land application of authorized septage, solid waste…

Sec. 5. (a) The board may adopt a fee schedule for the issuance of: (1) septage management permits; and (2) land application site approvals; under this chapter in accordance with IC 13-16-1. (b) Whenever the board designates a county or city health agency as the board's agent to …

Sec. 6. (a) This chapter shall be enforced under IC 13-30-3. (b) Violations of this chapter are subject to the penalties imposed by the following: (1) IC 13-30-4. (2) IC 13-30-5. (3) IC 13-30-8. In addition, a violation of this chapter may lead to criminal prosecution under IC 13…

Sec. 6.5. In addition to any other authority in this title, the commissioner or a designated staff member may, under IC 4-21.5, revoke or modify a permit or an approval issued under this chapter for any of the following reasons: (1) Violation of a requirement of this chapter, rul…

Sec. 7. This chapter does not require a person to obtain a permit under this chapter if the person is: (1) engaged in: (A) servicing or maintaining publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities; or (B) transportation of wastewater from a publicly owned wastewater treatment facil…

Sec. 7.5. (a) As used in this section, "septage" means human excreta, wastewater, scum, sludge, and other content introduced through incidental or accidental seepage that is removed from domestic septic tanks, holding tanks, privies, seepage pits, cesspools, compost toilets, or p…

Sec. 8. (a) If a publicly owned treatment works permittee: (1) determines that an upset has occurred in the publicly owned treatment works that is likely to pose a threat to human or animal life; or (2) has knowledge of an imminent threat from a chemical or other release to the c…

for county onsite waste management districts; guidelines or rules Sec. 9. (a) This section applies only in a county onsite waste management district established under IC 36-11. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c), the point source discharge of sewage, treated or untreated, f…

Sec. 9.5. If the amendment of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) general permit issued by the department for the purposes of IC 36-11 is necessary or advisable to enable county onsite waste management districts established under IC 36-11 after June 30, 20…

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to a county having a population of more than four hundred thousand (400,000) and less than seven hundred thousand (700,000). [Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-7-19-1.] As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.11-2023, SEC.47.

Sec. 2. A person may not establish a sanitary landfill for the disposal of garbage, rubbish, or refuse on land in Indiana within one-half (1/2) mile of an area: (1) that has been subdivided for residential purposes; and (2) for which the plat is on file in the office of the count…

Sec. 3. A person that violates section 2 of this chapter shall be assessed a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000). Each additional day of violation constitutes a separate violation. [Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-7-19-3.] As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC…

Sec. 1. (a) All bonds issued under this article may: (1) be issued as serial or term bonds or as a combination of both; (2) be executed and delivered by the district at any time and from time to time; (3) bear the date or dates; (4) bear the maximum interest rates, if fixed rates…

Sec. 10. The general assembly covenants and agrees with the holders of any bonds that as long as any bonds of a district issued under this article or IC 13-9.5-9 (before its repeal) are outstanding and unpaid, the state: (1) will not limit or alter the rights of the district to: …

Sec. 11. This article is supplemental to all other statutes covering the acquisition, construction, modification, use, and maintenance of facilities for solid waste disposal by a district. [Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-9.5-9-18.] As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.11.

Sec. 2. The bonds issued under this article or IC 13-9.5-9 (before its repeal) may be secured by a trust indenture between the district and a corporate trustee, which may be any national or state bank having its principal office in Indiana and having trust powers. The trust inden…

Sec. 3. A security issued in connection with a financing under this article, the interest on which is excludable from adjusted gross income tax, is exempt from the registration requirements of IC 23. [Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-9.5-9-10.] As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.11.…

Sec. 4. All: (1) bonds, including grant and bond anticipation notes, issued under this article or IC 13-9.5-9 (before its repeal); and (2) the interest on the bonds and notes; are exempt from taxation in accordance with IC 6-8-5. [Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-9.5-9-11.] A…

Sec. 5. All revenues received by the board or district under this article or IC 13-9.5-9 (before its repeal) are exempt from all taxation. [Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-9.5-9-12.] As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.11.

Sec. 6. The facilities or any part of the facilities to be financed under this article may be financed by any combination of one (1) or more of the methods provided for in this article. [Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-9.5-9-13.] As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.11.

Sec. 7. An action to: (1) contest the validity of the bonds; or (2) prevent the issuance of the bonds; must be brought within thirty (30) days following the first publication of public notice of the adoption of the resolution authorizing the bonds. [Pre-1996 Recodification Citati…

Sec. 8. (a) This article constitutes full authority for the issuance of bonds. No procedure, proceedings, publications, notices, consents, approvals, orders, acts, or things by a board, officer, commission, department, agency, or instrumentality of the state is required to issue …

Sec. 9. The following are exempt from regulation under IC 8-1-2 and IC 8-1.5: (1) A facility owned, operated, or financed under this article. (2) The sale of byproducts from the facility. [Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-9.5-9-16.] As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.11.…

Sec. 1. Notwithstanding the fees established under IC 13-16-1, the hazardous waste: (1) permit application fees; (2) annual operation fees; (3) prices for purchasing manifests; and (4) disposal fees; provided for in this chapter are established. [Pre-1996 Recodification Citation:…

Sec. 10. Regardless of a person's rate of generation, a person must pay a generator annual operation fee if the person accumulates more than: (1) six thousand (6,000) kilograms of hazardous waste; or (2) one (1) kilogram of acutely toxic waste; onsite at any time during a year. […

Sec. 11. Groundwater compliance sampling fees established under this chapter apply to groundwater monitoring wells in existence at an operating land disposal facility at the time an annual operation fee concerning the land disposal facility is assessed. [Pre-1996 Recodification C…

Sec. 12. A person or facility that is described in more than one (1) category under this chapter must pay all applicable fees. [Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-7-16.1-3(p).] As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.12.

Sec. 13. Except for the hazardous waste disposal fee collected under section 3.5 of this chapter, the fees and delinquency charges collected under this chapter: (1) are payable to the department; and (2) shall be deposited in the environmental management permit operation fund est…

Sec. 2. For hazardous waste, the application fees are as follows: New Permit Application Fee Land Disposal $40,600 Incinerator (per unit) $21,700 Storage $23,800 Treatment $23,800 Permit Renewal or Class 3 Modification Land Disposal $34,000 Incinerator $21,700 Storage $17,200 Tre…

Sec. 3. For hazardous waste, the annual operation fees are as follows: Fee Land Disposal $37,500 Incinerator (per unit) $10,000 Storage $ 2,500 Treatment $10,000 Generator $ 1,565 Postclosure Activity $ 1,500 Groundwater Compliance Sampling at active facilities (per well) $ 1,000…

Sec. 3.5. (a) For the disposal of hazardous waste in Indiana, the fees are as follows: (1) For hazardous waste disposed of in a disposal facility, eleven dollars and fifty cents ($11.50) per ton. If hazardous waste is mixed with or dissolved or suspended in water or another liqui…

Sec. 3.6. (a) The fees collected under section 3.5 of this chapter upon the disposal of a quantity of hazardous waste shall be deposited and paid over as follows: (1) Seventy-five percent (75%) shall be deposited in the hazardous substances response trust fund established by IC 1…

Sec. 5. (a) When a person files a hazardous waste permit application with the department, the person must remit an application fee to the department. (b) If a person does not remit an application fee to the department, the department shall deny the person's application. [Pre-1996…

Sec. 6. Hazardous waste annual operation fees begin accruing January 1 each year. The department shall assess the fees not later than June 15 of that year. [Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-7-16.1-3(j).] As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.12. Amended by P.L.250-2019, SEC.33.

Sec. 7. A person must remit a hazardous waste annual operation fee or an installment established by the department under IC 13-16-2 to the department not more than thirty (30) days after the date the fee is assessed or on the date the installment is due. [Pre-1996 Recodification …

Sec. 8. (a) In addition to the penalties described under: (1) IC 13-30-4-1; (2) IC 13-30-4-2; and (3) IC 13-30-5-1; if a person does not remit a hazardous waste annual operation fee or an installment established by the department under section 14 of this chapter not more than six…

Sec. 9. Annual operation fees established under this chapter apply to facilities that: (1) have received a permit from the department; or (2) are operating under interim status or otherwise manage hazardous waste subject to regulation under the following: (A) IC 13-22-2 through I…

Sec. 1. (a) Each year, if an underground storage tank or aboveground storage tank has not been closed before January 1 of the year under: (1) rules adopted under IC 13-23-1-2; or (2) a requirement imposed by the commissioner before the adoption of rules under IC 13-23-1-2; the ow…

Sec. 2. If the total amount of the fees owed under this article exceed five hundred dollars ($500), the fee payer has the option of paying the annual fees in four (4) equal installment payments. The department shall establish a payment schedule to implement this section. [Pre-199…

Sec. 3. Except as provided by section 2 of this chapter, the fee required by section 1 of this chapter shall be paid annually in accordance with a payment schedule established by the department. The fee payment form provided by the department must accompany the fee payment. [Pre-…

Sec. 4. The department shall collect the fees paid under this chapter and deposit the fees as follows: (1) Fees paid in connection with underground petroleum storage tanks or aboveground petroleum storage tanks under section 1(b)(1) of this chapter shall be deposited in the petro…

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to the use of an electronic submission for any of the following: (1) Satisfaction of a state or federal requirement for reporting to the department. (2) Satisfaction of the requirements for an application to the department. (3) Submission to the depar…

Sec. 2. (a) If a person is required to submit information or a document to the department, the department may require the person to submit the information or document electronically. However, the department may not require a person to submit information or a document to the depar…

Sec. 4. (a) The department may adopt procedures that are consistent with federal law for compliance with this chapter to allow an applicant to submit an electronic document bearing the valid electronic signature of a signatory if that signatory would otherwise be required to sign…

Sec. 5. Information submitted in an acceptable electronic document under a procedure adopted under section 4 of this chapter must have a signature uniquely assigned. The receiving system for the document must be able to attribute the signature to a specific individual. If an elec…

Sec. 6. A person is subject to applicable state or federal civil, criminal, or other penalties and remedies for failure to comply with a reporting requirement if the person submits an electronic document that: (1) is in place of a paper document under this chapter; and (2) fails …