Kentucky Statutes 224.43-614 – Requirements for new solid waste disposal facilities and horizontal expansions of existing facilities — Exemption — Implementing procedures
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(1) All new solid waste disposal facilities and horizontal expansions of existing solid waste disposal facilities, with the exception of construction/demolition or residual landfills, shall meet the design, operating, monitoring, and recordkeeping requirements for contained landfills as defined in accordance with administrative regulations adopted by the cabinet. Special waste, as defined in KRS § 224.50-760, except for waste from sanitary wastewater treatment facilities, shall be exempt from this section.
(2) Limited quantity generator hazardous waste as defined by the cabinet and its administrative regulations shall not be disposed in a solid waste disposal facility unless the facility meets the recordkeeping, groundwater monitoring, leachate collection and control systems, and liner system requirements of the administrative regulations adopted by the cabinet for contained landfills.
(3) The cabinet shall implement procedures to assist limited quantity hazardous waste generators to dispose of such waste in compliance with the requirements of this section. Such procedures shall include assistance in the development of limited quantity waste collection and disposal programs, and maintenance of a list of waste sites or facilities which meet the requirements of this section.
Effective: February 26, 1991
History: Amended 1991 (1st Extra. Sess.), Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 27, effective February
26, 1991. — Created 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 46, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1988.
Formerly codified as KRS § 224.848.
(2) Limited quantity generator hazardous waste as defined by the cabinet and its administrative regulations shall not be disposed in a solid waste disposal facility unless the facility meets the recordkeeping, groundwater monitoring, leachate collection and control systems, and liner system requirements of the administrative regulations adopted by the cabinet for contained landfills.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.43-614
- 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
- Generator: means any person, by site, whose act or process produces waste. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
- Hazardous waste: means any discarded material or material intended to be discarded or substance or combination of such substances intended to be discarded, in any form which because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
- Treatment: means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any waste so as to neutralize such waste or so as to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume. 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
(3) The cabinet shall implement procedures to assist limited quantity hazardous waste generators to dispose of such waste in compliance with the requirements of this section. Such procedures shall include assistance in the development of limited quantity waste collection and disposal programs, and maintenance of a list of waste sites or facilities which meet the requirements of this section.
Effective: February 26, 1991
History: Amended 1991 (1st Extra. Sess.), Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 27, effective February
26, 1991. — Created 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 46, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1988.
Formerly codified as KRS § 224.848.