Kentucky Statutes 224.46-540 – Exemption of agricultural wastes — Producer of hazardous waste in amounts not deemed harmful not considered as generator of hazardous waste
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(1) No hazardous waste management provision of this chapter shall be construed to apply to any agricultural wastes, including manures and crop residues which are returned to the soil as fertilizers or soil conditioners. A farmer disposing of waste pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers from his own use which are hazardous wastes is not required to comply with the hazardous waste management provisions of this chapter for those wastes, provided he triple rinses each emptied container and disposes of the waste residues on his own farm in a manner consistent with the disposal instructions on the container label.
(2) Any person who produces hazardous waste in amounts not determined to be harmful to public health or the environment by regulation of the cabinet consistent with the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, and regulations issued pursuant thereto shall not be a generator of hazardous waste or considered to be engaged in the generation of hazardous waste for purposes of this chapter.
Effective: July 15, 1986
History: Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 331, sec. 38, effective July 15, 1986. — Created
1982 Ky. Acts ch. 74, sec. 21, effective July 15, 1982.
Formerly codified as KRS § 224.869.
(2) Any person who produces hazardous waste in amounts not determined to be harmful to public health or the environment by regulation of the cabinet consistent with the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, and regulations issued pursuant thereto shall not be a generator of hazardous waste or considered to be engaged in the generation of hazardous waste for purposes of this chapter.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.46-540
- 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
- Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- 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
- 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
Effective: July 15, 1986
History: Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 331, sec. 38, effective July 15, 1986. — Created
1982 Ky. Acts ch. 74, sec. 21, effective July 15, 1982.
Formerly codified as KRS § 224.869.