Kentucky Statutes 224.18-900 – Interstate compacts on solid waste management
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The Governor is authorized to negotiate and enter into compacts with other states relating to the management of solid waste including reduction, collection, transportation, and disposal. Such compacts must be ratified by the General Assembly.
Effective: February 26, 1991
History: Created 1991 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 19, effective February 26,
1991.
Formerly codified as KRS § 224.8865.
Effective: February 26, 1991
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.18-900
- Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any waste into or on any land or water so that such waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including ground waters. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
- Transportation: means any off-site movement of waste by any mode, and any loading, unloading, or storage incidental thereto. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
- Waste: means :
(a) "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining (excluding coal mining wastes, coal mining by-products, refuse, and overburden), agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include those materials including, but not limited to, sand, soil, rock, gravel, or bridge debris extracted as part of a public road construction project funded wholly or in part with state funds, recovered material, post-use polymers or recovered feedstocks, tire-derived fuel, special wastes as designated by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
History: Created 1991 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 19, effective February 26,
1991.
Formerly codified as KRS § 224.8865.