KRS 109.012: Definitions for chapter.

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Board of directors" or "board" means the governing body of a solid waste

management district;

(2) "City" means an existing city of any class;

(3) "County" means the governing body of a co unty, including urban -county

governments;

(4) "Cabinet" means the Energy and Environment Cabinet;

(5) "Franchise" means a franchise, contract, right, authorization, or privilege granted by

a local government for provision of solid waste management services;

(6) "Local government" means a city, county, urban-county government, charter county

government, consolidated local government, or unified local government or a solid

waste management district created pursuant to KRS Chapter 109;

(7) "Long-term contract" means a contract of sufficient duration to assure the viability

of a resource recovery facility to the extent that such viability depends upon solid

waste supply;

(8) "Recovered material" means those materials which have known current use, reuse,

or recycling potential, which can be feasibly used, reused, or recycled, and which

have been diverted or removed from the solid waste stream for sale, use, reuse, or

recycling, whether or not requiring subsequent separation and processing, but does

not include mat erials diverted or removed for purposes of energy recovery or

combustion except refuse -derived fuel (RDF), which shall be credited as a

recovered material in an amount equal to that percentage of the municipal solid

waste received on a daily basis at the p rocessing facility and processed into RDF;

but not to exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the total amount of the municipal solid

waste received at the processing facility on a daily basis;

(9) "Recovered material processing facility" means a facility engaged solely in the

storage, processing, and resale or reuse of recovered material but does not mean a

solid waste management facility if solid waste generated by a recovered material

processing facility is managed pursuant to KRS Chapter 224 and administrative

regulations adopted by the cabinet;

(10) "Person" means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation

(including a government corporation), partnership, association, federal agency, state

agency, city, commission, political subdivision of th e Commonwealth, or any

interstate body;

(11) "Service company" means any person or entity duly authorized by an agency of the

Commonwealth of Kentucky pursuant to the Kentucky Revised Statutes, or

administrative regulations promulgated thereunder, for the provision of solid waste

management services;

(12) "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge, and other discarded material,

including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from

industrial, commercial, mining (excluding coa l mining waste, 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 pub lic road construction

project funded wholly or in part with state funds, recovered material, post -use

polymers or recovered feedstocks as those terms are defined in KRS 224.1 -010,

special wastes as designated by KRS 224.50 -760, solid or dissolved material in

domestic sewage, manure, crops, crop residue, or a combination thereof which are

placed on the soil for return to the soil as fertilizers or soil conditions, or solid or

dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are

point sources subject to permits under Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution

Control Act, as amended (86 Stat. 880), or source, special nuclear, or by -product

material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 923).

(a) "Household solid waste" means solid waste, including garbage and trash

generated by single and multiple family residences, hotels, motels, bunk

houses, ranger stations, crew quarters, and recreational areas such as picnic

areas, parks, and camp grounds;

(b) "Commercial solid waste" means all types of solid waste generated by stores,

offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other service and nonmanufacturing

activities, excluding household and industrial solid waste;

(c) "Industrial solid waste" means solid waste generated by manufacturing or

industrial processes that is not a hazardous waste or a special waste as

designated by KRS 224.50 -760, including but not limited to waste resulting

from the following manufacturing processes: electric power generation;

fertilizer or agricultural chemicals; food and related products or by -products;

inorganic chemicals; iron and steel manufacturing; leather and leather

products; nonferrous metals manufacturing/foundries; organic chemicals;

plastics and resins manufacturing; pulp and paper industry; rubber and

miscellaneous plastic products; stone, glass, clay, and concrete products;

textile manufacturing; transportation equipment; and water treatment; and

(d) "Municipal solid waste" means household solid waste and commercial soli d

waste;

(13) "Solid waste management" or "solid waste management services" means the

administration of solid waste activities: collection, storage, transportation, transfer,

processing, treatment, and disposal, which shall be in accordance with a cabinet

approved county or multicounty solid waste management plan of the cabinet. For

the purposes of subsection (5) of this section and KRS 109.0417, "solid waste

management services" additionally includes collection, storage, transportation,

transfer, processin g, treatment, and disposal of special wastes, as designated by

KRS 224.50 -760, and curbside collection of recovered material, but does not

include advanced recycling as defined in KRS 224.1-010;

(14) "Solid waste management area" or "area" means any geogra phical area established

or, designated by the cabinet in accordance with the provisions of KRS Chapter

224;

(15) "Solid waste management facility" means any facility for collection, storage,

transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, or disposal of s olid waste, whether

such facility is associated with facilities generating such wastes or otherwise, but

does not include a container located on property where solid waste is generated and

which is used solely for the purpose of collection and temporary st orage of that

solid waste prior to off -site disposal, or a recovered material processing facility

which is subject to regulation pursuant to the chapter for control of environmental

impacts and to prevent any public nuisance, or an advanced recycling facil ity as

defined in KRS 224.1-010; and

(16) "Waste management district" means any county or group of counties electing to

form under the provisions of KRS 109.115 and operate in conformance with the

provisions of this chapter and with Section 4006 of the Res ource Conservation and

Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (P.L. 94-580).