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15-22-504. Publication and availability of plan.
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15-22-504. Publication and availability of plan.
(a) In accordance with §§ 15-20-207, 15-22-204, and 15-22-501, the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission shall publish an “Arkansas Water Plan”, which shall from time to time be revised, updated, and amended as new information, projects, and developments shall occur.
(b) The plan shall be made available to all interested state agencies, departments, commissions, and individuals in order to ensure that the provisions of this subchapter are complied with concerning water resource planning and development.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 15-22-504
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15-22-504. Publication and availability of plan.
(a) In accordance with §§ 15-20-207, 15-22-204, and 15-22-501, the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission shall publish an “Arkansas Water Plan”, which shall from time to time be revised, updated, and amended as new information, projects, and developments shall occur.
(b) The plan shall be made available to all interested state agencies, departments, commissions, and individuals in order to ensure that the provisions of this subchapter are complied with concerning water resource planning and development.
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15-20-207. Powers and duties.
The Arkansas Natural Resources Commission shall have the authority to:
(1)(A) Enter into negotiations with the duly authorized representatives of adjoining states relating to the protection and use of interstate waters occurring in underground aquifers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, or natural or artificial channels or impoundments and, with the consent of the United States Congress, enter into written compacts in relation thereto which shall become effective upon their ratification by the General Assembly and the legislative bodies of the other states which are parties thereto.
(B) In order that the commission may perform its functions more effectively, the Department of Agriculture shall employ a Water Resources Engineer, and the person so employed, at the time of his or her employment and during the continuance thereof, shall hold a certificate of registration granted by the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors;
(2) Cooperate with similar agencies existing in other states, with the several federal departments, and with civic organizations interested in and devoted to water and soil conservation and flood control and prevention;
(3)(A) Cooperate with local organizations, with districts organized under the Arkansas Irrigation, Drainage, and Watershed Improvement District Act of 1949, § 14-117-101 et seq., or other state law of similar import, and with appropriate federal departments and agencies in the development and prosecution of plans for the construction, operation, and maintenance of pools, lakes, reservoirs, dams, levees, ditches, canals, waterways, pumping works, and other facilities.
(B) This cooperation may be for work on improvements on lakes, rivers, bayous, and streams for the
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 15-20-207
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15-22-204. Penalties — Enforcement.
(a)(1) Any person who violates any provision of this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to imprisonment not to exceed six (6) months or a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both.
(2) For a continuing offense, each day during which the offense is committed shall be considered a separate violation.
(b) The Arkansas Natural Resources Commission shall enforce its rules and orders by any or all of the following means:
(1) Revocation of any permit or suspension from any program administered by the commission;
(2) Suit for injunction or for damages, or both; and
(3) Civil penalties not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
(c) All penalties received shall go to the Arkansas Water Development Fund.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 15-22-204
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15-22-501. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter, “water development project” means the construction, acquisition, ownership, replacement, operation, and maintenance of facilities, including land, easements, and works of improvement, for the protection, conservation, preservation, development, utilization, and proper disposal of the state's water resources and related land resources in order to:
(1) Provide for the people of the state adequate supplies of quality water for municipal, industrial, agricultural, recreational, and domestic purposes, water for navigation, and access to the state's lakes and streams, parks, and other recreational sites along their shores;
(2) Reclaim, preserve, and protect the state's land resources and adequately protect the wealth of the state from disastrous floods; and
(3) Collect or treat sewage, including without limitation, wastewater treatment plants, intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, force mains, pumping stations, instrumentation and control systems, and other appurtenances necessary or useful for the collection, removal, reduction, treatment, purification, disposal, and handling of liquid and solid waste, sewage and industrial waste, and refuse.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 15-22-501
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 15-22-501. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.