O.C.G.A. § 12-9-70 (2019)
Study and review of gasoline additives
(a) As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘MTBE’’ means methyl tertiary butyl ether.
(b) The director of the Environmental Protection Division of the department is authorized and urged to study and review the use of gasoline additives in this state and to develop rules and regulations not later than January 1, 2008, for consideration by the Board of Natural Resources to provide for a phase out of the permissible use of gasoline containing MTBE in a manner designed to coordinate such phase out with other states adjacent to this state to the extent practicable; and the board is authorized to adopt rules and regulations for such purpose. In developing such rules and regulations, the director is urged to consider the need to ensure adequate supplies of gasoline in this state, environmental issues such as air quality and ground-water protection, the overall benefits and concerns with various gasoline additives, the use of additives by adjacent states, and the viability of ethanol for use as an additive to the greatest extent practicable.
History
Code 1981, § 12-9-70, enacted by Ga. L. 2006, p. 547, § 2/SB 636.
CONSERVATION & NATURAL RES.
CHAPTER 10 INTERSTATE COMPACTS Sec.
Article 1 Southern States Energy Compact Sec.
Compact enacted and entered into by State of Georgia; text of compact. Appointment of representatives to Southern States Energy Board; compensation. Board employees under merit system; establishment of retirement system. Board considered state agency for purpose of obtaining personnel services. Budget of estimated expenditures to be submitted to Governor. Appropriations for supplementary agreements. Cooperation by state departments, agencies, officers, and subdivisions with Board. Appropriation of funds to carry out article and compact.
Article 4 Southeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact
Required procedure to make compact effective; exchange of documents. Authority of Governor to execute compact with designated states; legislative approval of compact; text of compact. Process. Authority to exercise powers under compact; cooperation with compact administrator. Construction of article. Article 5
Historic Chattahoochee Compact 12-10-80 and 12-10-81. [Repealed]. Article 6 Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact
Article 2 Southern Growth Policies Agreement
Annotations
Cross references. - The Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact, § 12-8-120 et seq.
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ARTICLE 1 SOUTHERN STATES ENERGY COMPACT
Editor's notes. - Ga. L. 1979, p. 806 changed the name of the Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact to the Southern States Energy Compact and made several other changes in the text of the Compact and in this article. Ga. L. 1979, p. 806, § 9 provided that the provisions of Ga. L. 1979, p. 806, § 9 were to become effective "at such time as nine of the party states to the Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact approve substantially the same changes in the Compact as are provided for in this Act and the Congress of the United States consents to the Compact, substantially as amended by this Act." Subsequently, the Compact received the approval of the requisite number of states and by the Congress of the United States; thus, the Act is now binding.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR. - Constitutionality, construction, and application of compacts and statutes involving co-operation between states, 134 A.L.R. 1411.