(a) The county mayor and four (4) members of the county legislative body appointed by the county mayor of the county in which any commercial facility is located may accompany the department upon any site investigation or monitoring inspection.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-212-208

  • County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Department: means the department of environment and conservation. See Tennessee Code 68-212-401
  • Facility: means :
    (A) Any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline (including any pipe into a sewer or publicly owned treatment works), well, pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, motor vehicle, rolling stock, or aircraft. See Tennessee Code 68-212-401
(b) The county legislative body of the county in which any commercial facility is located may, by a majority vote of the members to which it is entitled, require that independent monitoring tests be conducted. Such tests shall be conducted by a laboratory which is certified to conduct tests for safe drinking water by the department or the federal environmental protection agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act. All such tests shall be paid for by such county.
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