Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality

In accordance with the definitions provided in Section 19 of H.B. 1730, passed and became law in Mississippi Regular Session of 2020, for the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed in this rule unless the context clearly indicates otherwise…

A. Section 19 of H.B. 1730, Mississippi Regular Session of 2020, created in the State Treasury a special fund to be designated as the "Mississippi Dam Safety Fund," which shall consist of funds made available by the Legislature in any manner and funds from any other source design…

A. The department hereby establishes a grant program to make grants to owners of high hazard dams to provide funds to be used for the purposes of draining, repairing, rehabilitating, breaching, or removing high hazard dams in this state as necessary to protect downstream lives an…

In its selection of projects to which award grants, subject to available funds, MDEQ shall rank and prioritize applications for Dam Safety Grants based on the potential to reduce risk to downstream lives and property in the event that the dam were to fail. Additional studies and …

A. Upon the department's approval of an application for a grant, the department shall enter into a project grant agreement with each grantee to establish the terms of the grant and the project, including the amount of the grant. B. The grant funds shall be used by grantees to add…

The words and phrases used in this Chapter shall have the meanings set forth in this rule. A. "Air pollution" means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in quantities, of characteristic, and of a duration which are materially injurious or can be …

The Pollution Emergency Fund, created pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. § 49-17-68, may be used by the commission for the purpose of mitigation, abatement, clean-up, or other remedial actions and related technical investigations involving the introduction of pollutants upon or into the…

The Mississippi Solid Wastes Disposal Law of 1974, Miss. Code Ann. §§ 17-17-1, et seq., provides essentially the same mechanism for ensuring that immediate remedial or clean-up action be completed when a party causes an immediate necessity for remedial or clean-up action involvin…

In accordance with the above cited statutes, any person who owns or operates a facility which, through misadventure, happenstance or otherwise, causes pollution necessitating immediate remedial or clean-up action shall be liable for the cost of such remedial or clean-up action an…

If the Responsible Party ("RP") is available at the site of a pollution event, or if MDEQ is able to communicate via telephone with the RP, then the RP shall make arrangements to pay the response contractor directly for necessary remedial or clean-up actions. If the RP is not ava…