(1) In addition to its other powers, the cabinet may suspend the authority of a municipal solid waste management facility to accept waste streams upon any of the following grounds:
(a) The cabinet finds that any shipment of waste contains waste excluded by law from municipal solid waste disposal facilities in the Commonwealth;

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.43-350

  • Cabinet: means the Energy and Environment Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • 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
  • Municipal solid waste: means household solid waste and commercial solid waste. 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

(b) Any part of the waste streams in question are being transported by transporters who are not registered or certified in the Commonwealth in accordance with KRS § 174.450.
(2) The suspension described in subsection (1) of this section shall terminate upon the cabinet’s determination that the basis for the suspension has been corrected.
Effective: February 26, 1991
History: Created 1991 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 20, effective February 26,
1991.
Formerly codified as KRS § 224.8893.