The cabinet is authorized to apply and to enforce against users of publicly owned treatment works the requirements of monitoring, record keeping and reporting, effluent limitations and pretreatment standards for the introduction into such treatment works of pollutants which interfere with, pass through, or otherwise are incompatible with such treatment works. The cabinet may promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to implement this section.
Effective: June 17, 1978

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.73-120

  • Cabinet: means the Energy and Environment Cabinet. 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
  • 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

History: Created 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 257, sec. 5, effective June 17, 1978.
Formerly codified as KRS § 224.140.

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