The Department of Environmental Services shall be charged with the exclusive control and protection of the rights and interest of the State in the phosphate rocks and phosphatic deposits in the navigable streams and in the marshes thereof.
Department of Health and Environmental Control has exclusive control of the state's phosphate interest
S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-110, under Title 10, Chapter 9.
S.C. Code Ann. § 10-9-110