(1) As used in this section, “biosolids” means nutrient-rich, organic, residual material that results from the treatment of domestic sewage or sewage sludge in a treatment facility and can be recycled and applied as a fertilizer to improve and maintain productive soils.
(2) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, when biosolids are generated from wastewater treatment at a publicly owned treatment works, the biosolids shall be:

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.50-765

  • 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
  • Domestic: when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Publicly owned treatment works: means any device or system used in the treatment (including recycling and recovery) of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature which is owned by the Commonwealth or a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. 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
  • 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

(a) Designated a special waste; and
(b) Regulated in conformance with the most recent version of 40 C.F.R. § part 503. (3) Within sixty (60) days of June 29, 2023, the cabinet shall promulgate administrative
regulations pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A that are in conformance with 40 C.F.R.
pt. 503, regarding siting criteria and permitting conditions necessary to regulate the disposal of biosolids.
Effective: June 29, 2023
History: Created 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 22, sec. 1, effective June 29, 2023.