(1) As used in this section, “cabinet” shall mean the Energy and Environment
Cabinet.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224.70-120

  • Cabinet: means the Energy and Environment Cabinet. 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

(2) An applicant for a permit to discharge pollutants into waters of the
Commonwealth shall be subject to a permit fee by the cabinet.
(3) The permit fee shall be equal to the cost of review but shall not exceed the following amounts:
(a) Major industry: three thousand two hundred dollars ($3,200); (b) Minor industry: two thousand one hundred dollars ($2,100); (c) Nonprocess industry: one thousand dollars ($1,000);
(d) Large, non-publicly-owned treatment works: one thousand seven hundred dollars ($1,700);
(e) Intermediate, non-publicly-owned treatment works: one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500);
(f) Small, non-publicly-owned treatment works: one thousand dollars
($1,000);
(g) Agriculture: one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200); and
(h) Surface mining operation: one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200).
(4) The cabinet may impose the maximum permit fee if a discharge falls into multiple categories.
Effective:June 29, 2017
History: Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 117, sec. 20, effective June 29, 2017. — Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 379, effective July 15, 2010. — Created
1990 Ky. Acts ch. 471, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990.
Formerly codified as KRS § 224.1151.