Title 48, Environmental Protection and Conservation

Section effective until December 31, 2029. The department shall initiate a stakeholder group on June 1, 2026, and provide a report on its findings to the Chairman of the House Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Agricu…

Section effective until December 31, 2029. As used in this chapter: (1) "Collect" or "collection" means to facilitate the delivery of a covered television device or covered computer monitor device to a collection site included in the manufacturer's program, and to transport the c…

Section effective until December 31, 2029. A computer, computer monitor, or television manufacturer may not sell or offer to sell a covered device unless a label indicating the computer, computer monitor, or television manufacturer's brand is permanently affixed to the covered de…

Section effective until December 31, 2029. (A) A computer manufacturer may not sell or offer to sell in this State a covered computer device unless the computer manufacturer provides a recovery program at no charge. A recovery program must: (1) require a computer manufacturer to …

Section effective until December 31, 2029. (A) For program year 2023 and each year thereafter, no television manufacturer or computer monitor manufacturer shall sell or offer for sale a covered television device or covered computer monitor device in this State unless the televisi…

Section effective until December 31, 2029. (A) Beginning in program year 2023, each manufacturer electronic waste program must offer collection sites in accordance with the following convenience standards for each county or solid waste authority serving one or more counties that …

Section effective until December 31, 2029. (A) Beginning in program year 2023, the designee of a county including, but not limited to, a representative of a solid waste authority serving one or more counties, may elect to participate in a manufacturer electronic waste program by …

Section effective until December 31, 2029. (A) By November 1, 2022, for program year 2023, and by September first each year thereafter, each computer monitor and television manufacturer shall, individually or through a manufacturer clearinghouse, submit to the department a manufa…

Section effective until December 31, 2029. (A) A manufacturer electronic waste program plan submitted by a manufacturer clearinghouse may take into account and incorporate individual plans or operations of one or more manufacturers that are participating in the manufacturer clear…

Section effective until December 31, 2029. A computer, computer monitor, or television manufacturer is not liable for damages arising from information stored on a covered device collected from a consumer under the manufacturer's electronic waste program.

Section effective until December 31, 2029. (A) As used in this section: (1) "Adjusted total proportional responsibility" means the percentage calculated for each participating manufacturer for a program year pursuant to subsection (F). (2) "Market share" means the percentage that…

Section effective until December 31, 2029. Counties, solid waste authorities serving one or more counties, and municipalities that fully comply with the storage and packaging requirements of this chapter shall be exempt from liability upon the proper removal of covered devices fr…

Section effective until December 31, 2029. (A) A retailer only may sell or offer to sell a covered device that: (1) bears a manufacturer label as provided in Section 48-60-30; and (2) is manufactured by a manufacturer that offers an electronic waste program as provided in Section…

Section effective until December 31, 2029. A retailer may not be liable for damages arising from information stored on any covered device collected from a consumer under the manufacturer's electronic waste program.

(A) After July 1, 2011, a consumer must not knowingly place or discard a covered device or subassemblies of a covered device in a waste stream that is to be disposed of in a solid waste landfill. (B) An owner or operator of a solid waste landfill must not, at the gate, knowingly …

As used in this article: (1) "Fund" means the Disaster Relief and Resilience Reserve Fund. (2) "Office" means the South Carolina Office of Resilience.

(A) There is created the South Carolina Office of Resilience. The office shall develop, implement, and maintain the Statewide Resilience Plan and shall coordinate statewide resilience and disaster recovery efforts, including coordination with federal, state, and local governmenta…

To coordinate and strengthen efforts to reduce losses from future disasters across the State, the office shall develop, implement, and maintain a strategic Statewide Resilience Plan, which must include, but is not limited to: (1) development and implementation of a Strategic Stat…

As used in this article: (1) "Authority" means the South Carolina Disaster Recovery Office within the South Carolina Office of Resilience. (2) "Conservation easement" means an interest in real property as defined in Chapter 8, Title 27, the South Carolina Conservation Easement Ac…

There is created the South Carolina Resilience Revolving Fund. The fund is governed by the authority. The authority is a public instrumentality of this State, and the exercise by it of a power conferred in this article is the performance of an essential public function. The Direc…

(A) With regard to the fund, the authority is authorized to: (1) make and service below-market interest rate loans and grants as financial incentives to eligible fund recipients meeting the criteria of Section 48-62-50 for the purchase of flooded properties and land to complete f…

(A) In the issuing of loans, the authority must: (1) prioritize the buyout of blocks or groups of homes rather than individual homes so that no more than fifteen percent of funds disbursed in a fiscal year go toward individual home buyouts; (2) prioritize buyouts of single-family…

(A) The fund must be held and administered by the authority in accordance with the provisions of this article and policies, rules, regulations, directives, and agreements as may be promulgated or entered into by the authority pursuant to this article. Earnings on balances in the …

In addition to appropriations made by the General Assembly, the office shall seek out additional sources of funding to sustain the fund, including federal dollars from the Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery appropriatio…

The office may: (1) promulgate regulations to effectuate the provisions of this article; (2) establish an operational structure within its authority to administer the fund; (3) develop priority systems that ensure consistency with the provisions of this article; (4) prepare annua…

The provisions of this article must be liberally construed to the end that its beneficial purposes may be effectuated. No proceeding, notice, or approval is required for loan obligations by a project sponsor or instruments or the security for the loan obligation, except as provid…

(A) To aid in the development of the Statewide Resilience Plan, there is created the Statewide Resilience Plan Advisory Committee. The committee must be composed of: (1) the Director of the Department of Natural Resources, or his designee; (2) the Director of the Department of In…

There is created in the State Treasury the Disaster Relief and Resilience Reserve Fund, which shall be separate and distinct from the general fund and all other reserve funds. Funds appropriated to the fund only may be used to develop, implement, and maintain the Statewide Resili…

(A) Following a federally declared disaster, the Disaster Relief and Resilience Reserve Fund may make available immediate disaster relief assistance to aid resilient rebuilding in affected communities with significant unmet needs. For purposes of this section, disaster relief ass…

(A) To satisfy the purposes of removing residents from hazard areas, safeguarding property, and restoring the natural function of the floodplain, the Disaster Relief and Resilience Reserve Fund may be allocated to enable hazard mitigation and infrastructure improvements through l…