O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-16-7 (2019)

Effect of article on federal environmental policy requirements

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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Nothing in this article shall in any way affect or detract from specific statutory obligations of any government agency to comply with criteria or standards of environmental quality or to perform other statutory obligations imposed upon it, except those specified in Code Section 12-16-6; to coordinate or consult with any other government agency or federal agency; or to act, or refrain from acting, contingent upon the recommendations or certification of any other government agency or federal agency. A government agency shall be deemed to have complied with the requirements of this article for a proposed governmental action that requires and has received federal approval of an environmental document prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, and its implementing regulations.

History

Code 1981, § 12-16-7, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 1728, § 1; Ga. L. 2004, p. 329, § 2.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - Third-party defense to liability under § 107 of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 USCS § 9607), 105 A.L.R. Fed 21.

Arranger liability of state government under § 107(a) of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) (42 USCS § 9607(a)), 130 A.L.R. Fed. 431.