(1) The cabinet may enter into an agreement with a person to collect, transport, process, recycle, make tire-derived fuel, dispose of waste tires, or develop markets for waste tires. A person awarded a contract shall comply with the requirements of the waste tire program.
(2) The cabinet may enter into a memorandum of agreement with a federal, state, or local agency to aid in implementing the waste tire program. The cabinet may reimburse the federal, state, or local agency for their expenses incurred to aid the implementation of the waste tire program if money is available in the waste tire trust fund established by KRS § 224.50-880.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.50-876

  • Cabinet: means the Energy and Environment Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. 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

(3) The cabinet may enter into an agreement with a local government for the removal of waste tires, including waste tires collected by the local government through a local community-sponsored program. If income is derived from the disposal of the waste tires collected through the local community-sponsored program, the income may be used to reimburse the local government for the cost of sponsoring the program.
Effective: July 15, 1998
History: Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 529, sec. 14, effective July 15, 1998.