- (a) The following rules of the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission, adopted pursuant to the provisions of the Arkansas Water and Air Pollution Control Act, Arkansas Code § 8-4-101 et seq., shall be known as the “Arkansas Underground Injection Control Code”, hereinafter called the UIC Code.
(b)
- (1) It is the purpose of this UIC Code to adopt underground injection control (UIC) rules necessary to qualify the State of Arkansas to retain authorization for its Underground Injection Control Program pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.
- (2) In order to retain program authorization, it is necessary for the commission to have rules as stringent as the federal program administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.