Pollution Control, General Assembly

95th Arkansas General Assembly: Legislation Introduced Prohibiting Discharges into Waterbodies Utilized by A Public Water System

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/1/2025

Senate Bill 556 has been introduced which would amend Arkansas Code Title 8, Chapter 3, Subchapter 1 to add an additional Section titled: 8-3-104. Watershed Discharge Prohibition...more

95th Arkansas General Assembly: Senate Bill Introduced to Repeal Small Business Revolving Loan Fund for Pollution Control and...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 3/6/2025

Senator Irvin of Mountain View has introduced Senate Bill 367 which would repeal the Small Business Revolving Loan Fund for Pollution Control and Prevention Technologies Act (“Act”). The Act is found in Chapter 5,...more

94th Arkansas General Assembly/Petroleum Storage Tank Trust Fund: Senate/House of Representatives Enact Legislation Increasing...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 3/24/2023

The Arkansas State Senate and House of Representatives have passed legislation (HB1520) which would raise the limit for payment for corrective action per occurrence pursuant to the Arkansas Petroleum Storage Tank Trust Fund...more

93rd Arkansas General Assembly: Arkansas Authority to Seek Delegation/Section 404 Clean Water Act Program (UPDATE)

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 2/24/2021

As previously noted, House Bill 1261 (“HB 1261”) was introduced on January 25th which would authorize the Arkansas Water Control Agency (i.e., Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality...more

Key Energy Related Bills Introduced in the 2019-2020 Legislative Session

Stoel Rives - Renewable + Law on 3/6/2019

The 2019-2020 California Legislative Session has reached its first deadline. February 22, 2019 marked the deadline by which bills could be introduced for the first half of the Legislative Session. Lawmakers will begin Spring...more

Waste Tire Program/92nd Arkansas General Assembly: Bill Introduced Addressing Compliance Advisory Panel/Transfer of Moneys

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 2/5/2019

House Bill 1362 has been introduced which would address the Compliance Advisory Panel (“CAP”) established by Arkansas Code § 8-4-314(j)(5) and transfer certain moneys from the Marketing Recyclables Program Fund to the Used...more

Arkansas 91st General Assembly – Second Extraordinary Session 2018: House Bill 1007/Senate Bill 8 – Update

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 3/19/2018

As noted in previous posts (see previous posts of 03-13-18 and 03-14-18 here) House Bill (“H.B.”) 1007 and Senate Bill (“S.B.) 8 would add a subsection to a section of Subchapter 2 (Water Pollution) of the Arkansas Water and...more

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