Last Action | to Natural Resources & Environment (H) |
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Title | AN ACT relating to the disposal of coal combustion wastes. |
Bill Documents |
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Impact Statements | Local Mandate |
Bill Request Number | 1168 |
Sponsor | J. Jenkins |
Summary of Original Version | Create new sections of subtitle 50 of KRS Chapter 224 to define "CCR or coal combustion residual," "EAP," "encapsulated CCR," and "unencapsulated CCR"; express sentiment favoring a balanced approach to disposal of CCRs that protects the health and safety of the public and the environment and the need for beneficial reuse of CCRs; require disposal of CCRs as solid waste or in impoundments permitted by the Energy and Environment Cabinet and prohibit permit-by-rule or registered permit-by-rule for disposal of CCRs; require liners, groundwater monitoring, and toxic substance monitoring; require emergency action plans for surface CCR impoundments that are deemed as high hazard potential by the United States Environmental Protection Agency; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for coal ash CCR emergency action plans within 180 days of the effective date of the Act; establish specific contents of the EAP; amend KRS 109.012 to include CCR as a solid waste; amend KRS 151.250 to prohibit exemption for surface CCR impoundments regardless of size or type and prohibit use of permit-by-rule or registered permit-by-rule for surface CCR impoundments; amend KRS 224.50-760 to delete utility wastes and wastes from coal gasification facilities approved by the cabinet from the definition of special wastes. |
Index Headings of Original Version |
Disasters - Coal ash impoundments, emergency action plans, requirements for Energy - Coal combustion residuals, disposal, beneficial reuse, variance for Environment and Conservation - Coal combustion residuals, disposal, ground water monitoring, regulation of Fish and Wildlife - Coal combustion residuals, disposal, ground water monitoring, regulation of Fuel - Coal combustion residuals, disposal, beneficial reuse, requirements and variance for Hazardous Materials - Coal combustion residuals, hazardous wastes, noninclusion as Minerals and Mining - Coal combustion residuals, disposal, beneficial reuse, requirements and variance for Pollution - Coal combustion residuals, disposal, beneficial reuse, requirements and variance for Public Health - Coal ash impoundments, emergency action plans, requirements for Public Utilities - Coal ash impoundments, disposal, emergency action plans, requirements for Waste Management - Coal combustion residuals, disposal, beneficial reuse, requirements and variance for Water Supply - Coal combustion residuals, disposal, ground water monitoring, regulation of Public Safety - Coal ash impoundments, emergency action plans, requirements for Coal - Combustion residuals, disposal, regulation of Local Mandate - Coal combustion residuals, disposal, ground water monitoring, regulation of |
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