The secretary of the Cabinet for Economic Development shall cooperate with the special assistant to the Governor for coal and energy policy in examining the feasibility of a hazardous waste treatment-industrial park complex approach to the siting of hazardous waste management facilities and the promotion of industrial development. Consistent with the state policy of encouraging reuse and treatment of hazardous waste and of minimizing land disposal, the study shall be based on development of integrated facilities consisting of a variety of treatment and disposal systems at a given site associated with industrial plants. The study shall at a minimum:
(1) Survey the attitudes of various industries towards this approach; (2) Survey public attitudes and perceptions towards this approach;

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.46-590

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the Energy and Environment Cabinet. 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
  • 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
  • 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

(3) Identify the advantages and disadvantages to industry, the Commonwealth, and local communities;
(4) Survey the degree to which the availability of hazardous waste management facilities has a bearing on the location of new industry;
(5) Develop a list of industry types with compatible waste streams for exchange, neutralization, or incineration;
(6) Identify economic or technical barriers to this approach; and
(7) Report its findings and recommendations to the 1982 General Assembly.
Effective: July 13, 1990
History: Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 325, sec. 29, effective July 13, 1990. — Amended
1982 Ky. Acts ch. 396, sec. 50, effective July 15, 1982. — Created 1980 Ky. Acts ch.
197, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1980.
Formerly codified as KRS § 224.903, and also previously codified as KRS § 224.218.