(1) The Waste Tire Working Group is hereby established and shall be attached to the cabinet for administrative purposes and staff support.
(2) The Waste Tire Working Group shall have the following eight (8) members:

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.50-855

  • Cabinet: means the Energy and Environment Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • 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
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Manifest: means the form used for identifying the quantity, composition, and the origin, routing, and destination of waste during its transportation from the point of generation to the point of disposal, treatment, or storage. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Recycling: means any process by which materials which would otherwise become solid waste are collected, separated, or processed and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products, including refuse-derived fuel when processed in accordance with administrative regulations established by the cabinet, but does not include the incineration or combustion of materials for the recovery of energy. 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
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(a) The director of the Division of Waste Management or his or her designee who shall be an ex officio member and also serve as chair;
(b) The manager of the Recycling and Local Assistance Branch within the Division of Waste Management or his or her designee who shall be an ex officio member;
(c) One (1) representative of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, to be selected by the Commissioner of Agriculture and appointed by the Governor for an initial term of two (2) years and who may be reappointed;
(d) Two (2) representatives of the Solid Waste Coordinators of Kentucky selected by the Solid Waste Coordinators of Kentucky and appointed by the Governor for an initial term of three (3) years and who may be reappointed;
(e) One (1) county judge/executive appointed by the Governor from a list of three (3) nominees submitted by the Kentucky County Judge/Executive Association for an initial term of three (3) years and who may be reappointed;
(f) One (1) mayor of a Kentucky city appointed by the Governor from a list of three (3) nominees submitted by the Kentucky League of Cities; and
(g) One (1) representative of private industry engaged in the business of retail tire sales appointed by the Governor for an initial term of three (3) years and who may be reappointed.
(3) The members of the Waste Tire Working Group identified in paragraphs (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) of subsection (2) of this section shall receive travel-related expenses but no salary as compensation.
(4) The first meeting of the Waste Tire Working Group shall be no later than August
15, 2011. The working group shall meet at least twice a year or more frequently at the call of the chair.
(5) The Waste Tire Working Group shall:
(a) Provide advice and input to the cabinet regarding:
1. The administration and implementation of alternative methods for controlling the local accumulation of waste tires;
2. Developing the concept of a core fee for waste tires;
3. Improving the manifest system that tracks tires from point of sale to point of disposal;
4. Developing ways to assist local governments with direct grants for waste tire disposal; and
5. Developing an informational fact sheet on proper waste tire disposal under KRS § 224.50-868(3) and (8) to be made available on the cabinet’s Web site and available in print upon request;
(b) Serve as an advisory body to the cabinet in the development of a formula that the cabinet will use to apportion the money in the waste tire trust fund established by KRS § 224.50-880 for crumb rubber grants, tire amnesties, and tire-derived fuel, and to return a portion of the waste tire funds to local governments during Commonwealth Cleanup Week for waste tire disposal; and
(c) Provide advice and input to the cabinet on the data development and preparation of the waste tire report mandated under KRS § 224.50-872.
Effective: April 15, 2020
History: Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 91, sec. 30, effective April 15, 2020. — Amended
2012 Ky. Acts ch. 114, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2012. — Created 2011 Ky. Acts ch.
34, sec. 1, effective June 8, 2011.