§ 224.10-020 Departments, offices, and divisions within the cabinet — Appointments
§ 224.10-022 Office of the Secretary — Major organization units — Executive directors and general counsels — Appointments
§ 224.10-040 Major assistants — Staff — Secretary may designate deputy to sign final orders
§ 224.10-050 Organization of cabinet
§ 224.10-100 Powers and duties of cabinet
§ 224.10-105 Additional powers of cabinet as to solid waste management
§ 224.10-110 Enforcement of rules and regulations adopted by secretary — Policies — Plans — Programs
§ 224.10-120 Conformance of legal advertisements to federal laws or regulations
§ 224.10-190 Transfer of assets and personnel from Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet
§ 224.10-192 Emission standards for carburetion systems — Functions transferred to cabinet
§ 224.10-194 Septic tank servicing — Transfer of functions
§ 224.10-210 Records open to public inspection — Confidential nature of certain data
§ 224.10-212 Hazardous waste records open to public inspection — Confidential nature of certain data
§ 224.10-220 Timetables for issuance of permits — Effects of failure to file timetables and inaction before established deadlines
§ 224.10-225 Facilitation of permits for coal-fired electric generation plants, industrial energy facilities, and surface coal mining and reclamation operations
§ 224.10-230 Time and accounting system — Documentation of costs submitted to legislative committee — Promulgation of regulations
§ 224.10-250 Allocation of moneys collected as civil penalties
§ 224.10-270 Exemption or partial exemption — Application — Period of exemption — Renewal — Emergency provisions not limited
§ 224.10-272 Volkswagen settlement fund — Energy and Environment Cabinet to administer — Source and disposition of moneys
§ 224.10-275 Conditions of exemption — Progress reports
§ 224.10-280 Cumulative environmental assessment and fee required before construction of facility for generating electricity — Conditions imposed by cabinet — Administrative regulations
§ 224.10-285 Decommissioning plan procedures if not implemented timely — Administrative regulations — Fund — Independent review
§ 224.10-410 Order for discontinuance, abatement, or alleviation of condition or activity without hearing — Subsequent hearing
§ 224.10-420 Notice of complaint — Answer to charges — Petition by aggrieved party — Hearing
§ 224.10-430 Court order upon failure to obey cabinet subpoena
§ 224.10-440 Hearings — Reports, recommended orders, exceptions, decisions — Rights of parties — Records — Hearings to be public — Administrative regulations
§ 224.10-470 Appeals from final orders of the cabinet
§ 224.10-610 Acceptance and disposal of surplus agricultural chemicals and containers — Assistance to household waste educational and collection programs
§ 224.10-620 Public education program on reducing and managing waste
§ 224.10-630 Technical assistance to state agencies on composting — Identification of state property for composting
§ 224.10-650 Source separation and collection program for waste materials — Use of funds received — Resource conservation and recovery fund
§ 224.10-670 Administrative regulations — Standards and certification program for analysis of wastewater pollution — Data submitted by uncertified laboratory invalid
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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 224 > Subchapter 10 - Energy and Environment Cabinet

  • Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Air pollution: means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one (1) or more air contaminants in sufficient quantities and of such characteristics and duration as is or threatens to be injurious to human, plant, or animal life, or to property, or which unreasonably interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • any other state: includes any state, territory, outlying possession, the District of Columbia, and any foreign government or country. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • area: means any geographical area established or designated by the cabinet in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Cabinet: means the Energy and Environment Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Composting: means the process by which biological decomposition of organic solid waste is carried out under controlled aerobic conditions, and which stabilizes the organic fraction into a material which can easily and safely be stored, handled, and used in an environmentally acceptable manner:
    (a) "Composting" may include a process which creates an anaerobic zone within the composting material. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Directors: when applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees. 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
  • Effluent limitations: means any restrictions or prohibitions established under state
    law which include, but are not limited to, effluent limitations, standards of
    performance for new sources, and toxic effluent standards on quantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical, physical, biological, and other constituents which are discharged into waters. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • 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
  • Industrial energy facility: means a facility that produces transportation fuels, synthetic natural gas, chemicals, or electricity through a gasification process using coal, coal waste, or biomass resources, and costing in excess of seven hundred fifty million dollars ($750,000,000) at the time of construction. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Land disposal: includes but is not limited to any placement of hazardous waste in a landfill, surface impoundment, waste pile, injection well, land treatment facility, salt dome formation, salt bed formation, or underground mine or cave. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Municipal solid waste: means household solid waste and commercial solid waste. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Recovered material: means those materials, including but not limited to compost,
    which have known current use, reuse, or recycling potential, which can be feasibly used, reused, or recycled, and which have been diverted or removed from the solid waste stream for sale, use, reuse, or recycling, whether or not requiring subsequent separation and processing, but does not include materials diverted or removed for purposes of energy recovery or combustion except refuse-derived fuel (RDF), which shall be credited as a recovered material in an amount equal to that percentage of the municipal solid waste received on a daily basis at the processing facility and processed into RDF. 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
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the Energy and Environment Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Sewage system: means individually or collectively those constructions or devices used for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of liquid or waterborne sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Solid waste management: means the administration of solid waste activities: collection, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, and disposal, which shall be in accordance with a cabinet-approved county or multicounty solid waste management plan. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Solid waste management facility: means any facility for collection, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, or disposal of solid waste, whether such facility is associated with facilities generating such wastes or otherwise, but does not include a container located on property where solid waste is generated and which is used solely for the purpose of collection and temporary storage of that solid waste prior to off-site disposal, or a recovered material processing facility or advanced recycling facility, both of which are otherwise subject to regulation pursuant to this chapter for control of environmental impacts and to prevent any public nuisance. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • 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
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Transportation: means any off-site movement of waste by any mode, and any loading, unloading, or storage incidental thereto. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Treatment: means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any waste so as to neutralize such waste or so as to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Violate: includes failure to comply with. 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
  • waters of the Commonwealth: means and includes any and all rivers, streams, creeks, lakes, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, wells, marshes, and all other bodies of surface or underground water, natural or artificial, situated wholly or partly within or bordering upon the Commonwealth or within its jurisdiction. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010