The waste tire program shall not apply to:
(1) A person who accumulates waste tires for an agricultural purpose;

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.50-854

  • 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
  • Storage: means the containment of wastes, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such wastes. 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

(2) A person who stores waste tires for resale, if the storage of the waste tires complies with environmental performance standards established by the cabinet for waste sites or facilities and follows common business practices of storing new motor vehicle tires on racks and moving the waste tires indoors at the close of the business day;
(3) A person who accumulated up to seven hundred and fifty (750) waste tires before
January 16, 1991, and who meets the following conditions:
(a) The waste tires are used as an integral part of a business, including safety barriers but excluding storage or disposal;
(b) The number of waste tires has not increased since January 16, 1991; and
(c) The person certifies to the cabinet within thirty (30) days of July 15, 1998, that actions have been taken to prevent fires and the spread of illness through disease vectors.
Effective: July 15, 1998
History: Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 529, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1998.