Kentucky Statutes 224.40-110 – Acceptance of federal mechanisms for financial assurance for closure of solid waste disposal facilities — Administrative regulations
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(1) The cabinet may accept the mechanisms for financial assurance for closure, post- closure care, and corrective action for solid waste disposal facilities allowed under federal administrative regulations promulgated to implement Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended.
(2) The cabinet shall promulgate administrative regulations to implement this section.
However, the cabinet may accept the mechanisms allowed under subsection (1) of this section prior to the time its administrative regulations are promulgated.
Effective: April 13, 1992
History: Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 455, sec. 1, effective April 13, 1992.
(2) The cabinet shall promulgate administrative regulations to implement this section.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.40-110
- Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Cabinet: means the Energy and Environment Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
- Closure: means the time at which a waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility permanently ceases to accept wastes, and includes those actions taken by the owner or operator of the facility to prepare the site for post-closure monitoring and maintenance or to make it suitable for other uses. 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
- Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- 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
However, the cabinet may accept the mechanisms allowed under subsection (1) of this section prior to the time its administrative regulations are promulgated.
Effective: April 13, 1992
History: Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 455, sec. 1, effective April 13, 1992.