As used in KRS § 147A.150 to KRS § 147A.166:
(1) “Department” means the Department for Local Government;
(2) “Eligible grant recipient” means a grant applicant that is a public agency as defined in KRS § 61.805 or nonprofit entity engaged in public benefit improvements to priority communities;
(3) “Eligible project” means a public benefit project in a priority community or benefiting a priority community with available matching funds that satisfies the evaluation criteria in KRS § 147A.160 and that is initiated on:
(a) Publicly owned property;
(b) Property to be acquired, which comes with either a:
1. Legally binding letter of intent or option for the sale to an eligible grant recipient; or
2. Sale agreement for the sale to an eligible grant recipient; or
(c) Private property on which a project is located that is in the public interest and for a public purpose and that benefits a priority community;
(4) “Eligible use” means the authorized purpose for which an awarded grant may be used depending on the source of funds from the Commonwealth. “Eligible use” may include but is not limited to any of the categories in KRS § 147A.160;
(5) “Interagency Working Group” means the Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization established by Presidential Executive Order 14008, issued on January 27, 2021;
(6) “Priority community” means the areas impacted by concentrated, direct coal-related job losses from mine and power plant closures in recent years as designated by the Interagency Working Group; and
(7) “Regional project” means an eligible project that is proposed by eligible grant recipients residing in different counties in this Commonwealth who submit a single grant application.
Effective: June 29, 2023
History: Created 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 186, sec. 2, effective June 29, 2023.