Environmental

The Bureau of Environmental Services ensures the safety of Alabamians by regulating food, milk, lodging, body art, seafood, soil and onsite sewage, indoor air quality/lead, and solid waste. The Bureau contains two primary divisions:

Division of Food, Milk and Lodging (FML)

The Division of Food, Milk, and Lodging (FML) develops and enforces regulations to ensure that proper safety and sanitization practices are followed in the permitting and operation of retail food stores, restaurants, mobile food units (food trucks), manufactured food processing facilities, and milk and seafood processors. The division also oversees the permitting and inspection of tattoo, hotel, and camp facilities. In addition, the division provides inspection guidelines for jails and prisons.

The Division of Food, Milk and Lodging includes four branches:

• Food and Lodging
• Seafood
• Milk
• Manufactured Food Processing

Division of Community Environmental Protection (CEP)

The Division of Community Environmental Protection (CEP) develops and enforces regulations to minimize the potentially damaging effects on public health and the environment by permitting and overseeing the disposal of sewage and high-strength sewage. This division also provides technical assistance and guidance in the permitting and inspection of garbage transfer stations and collection vehicles, septage land application sites, and septic pumper vehicles. The division administers lead hazard reduction programs and provides information on indoor air quality and mold issues.

The Division of Community Environmental Protection includes three branches:

• Soil and Onsite Sewage
• Indoor Air Quality/Lead Branch
• Solid Waste Branch

Additional Environmental Programs

• Beach Monitoring Program
• Body Art Program
• Well Water Program