39-101 Short Title
39-102 State Policy On Environmental Protection
39-102A Legislative Intent in Creating Department of Environmental Quality
39-103 Definitions
39-104 Department of Environmental Quality — Creation
39-104A Authority to Make Rules Regulating Large Swine Feeding Operations — Financial Assurances
39-105 Powers and Duties of the Director
39-106 Director — Additional Powers and Duties — Transfer and Continuation of Rules and Other Proceedings
39-107 Board — Composition — Officers — Compensation — Powers — Subpoena — Depositions — Review — Rules
39-107A Real Property in Bunker Hill Cleanup Site
39-107B Department of Environmental Quality Fund
39-107C Environmental Protection Trust Fund Established
39-107D Rules of Department or Board
39-108 Investigation — Inspection — Right of Entry — Violation — Enforcement — Penalty — Injunctions
39-109 Commencement of Civil Enforcement Actions — Criminal Actions Authorized — Duties of Attorney General
39-110 Registration of Persons Engaged in Operations or Construction Where Air Pollution Is a Factor — Reports
39-111 Availability of Records
39-112 Emergency — Order — Hearing — Modification, Affirmance, or Setting Aside
39-113 Transfer of Employees
39-114 Open Burning of Crop Residue
39-115 Pollution Source Permits
39-116 Compliance Schedules
39-116A Compliance Agreement Schedules
39-117 Criminal Violation — Penalty
39-118 Review of Plans
39-118A Ore Processing by Cyanidation
39-118B Relationship to Federal Law
39-118C Legislative Findings and Declaration of Purpose
39-118D Idaho Air Quality Permitting Fund
39-118E Small Business Assistance
39-119 Collection of Fees for Services
39-120 Department of Environmental Quality Primary Administrative Agency — Agency Responsibilities
39-121 Definitions
39-126 Duties of State and Local Units of Government
39-127 Application of Fertilizers and Pesticides
39-128 Applicability — Promulgation of Rules — Establishment of Zones — Combustor Charging Composition and Recordkeeping — Report to Local Government — Permit Processing
39-129 Applicability — Definition of Local Government and Mandates — Authorization for Local Government Agreements — Adoption of Rules — Establishment of Schedules — Priority of Considerations — Report and Recommendations
39-130 Removal — Remediation — Bunker Hill Mining and Metallurgical Complex Superfund Facility
39-171 Legislative Findings and Purpose
39-172 Definitions
39-173 Committee — Members — Terms
39-174 Committee Duties — Meetings
39-175A Legislative Findings and Purposes
39-175B Relationship Between State and Federal Law
39-175C Approval of Idaho Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Program
39-175D Idaho Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Decisions and Appeal of Decisions
39-175E Idaho Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Program Investigation, Inspection and Enforcement Authorities
39-175F Ipdes Program Fund Established
39-176A Legislative Findings
39-176B Scope and Applicability
39-176C Definitions
39-176E Construction Requirements for New Phosphogypsum Stacks — Lateral Expansions of Existing Phosphogypsum Stacks
39-176F Plan — Approval or Rejection by Department

Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 39 > Chapter 1 - Environmental Quality — Health

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;
Idaho Code 73-114
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • seal: includes an impression of such seal upon the paper, alone, as well as upon wax or a wafer affixed thereto; or, alternatively, the seal may be the mark of a rubber stamp providing substantially the same information as the impression. See Idaho Code 73-111
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.