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On April 22, Judson Turner, director of Georgia's Environmental Protection Division, issued a memorandum that changes how the agency and local government development authorities are to measure vegetated buffer requirements along coastal marshland. The Georgia Erosion and Sedimentation Control Act requires a 25 foot vegetated buffer adjacent to waters of the state, in which no development or impervious surfaces may be located. Since at least 2004, EPD has by policy measured the buffer along marshes from the jurisdictional line set by the Coastal Marshland Protection Act. With ...
Posted in: Georgia
Tags: Coastal Marshland Protection Act, Environmental Protection Division, epd, georgia, Georgia Erosion and Sedimentation Control Act
The Land Protection Branch of Georgia EPD recently announced several organizational changes. The reorganization became effective on August 1, 2012. Included among the Branch reorganization are: - The position of Assistant Branch Chief has been established and is held by Jeff Cown - A new Special Projects role for data management and work process improvements is held by Renee Hudson Goodley - Response and Remediation Program now includes the Brownfields Unit. Derrick Williams has assumed the role of Program Manager, moving from the Underground Storage Tank Program - The new ...
Posted in: Georgia, Regulations
Tags: brownfields unit, burr and forman, burr forman, derrick williams, environmental law matters, epa, epd, georgia, greenhouse gas, hazardous waste corrective action program, land protection branch, scott hitch, underground storage tank program