KRS 154.12-240: Regulatory Expediting Center.

(1) The Regulatory Expediting Center is established within the cabinet to assist

industries and businesses proposing to locate or expand existing operations in

Kentucky with applications for permits, licenses, certificates, registration, and any

other form of authorization or permit required by a state, federal, or local agency to

engage in a particular business activity or act.

(2) The center shall train and deploy persons with knowledge and skills essential to

expediting a request for assistance by a prospect ive or expanding business or

industry with applications for permits, licenses, certificates, registration, and any

other form of authorization required by a state, federal, or local governmental

agency to engage in a particular business activity or act.

(3) Assistance given by the center regarding federal and local regulations and

requirements necessary to engage in the proposed business activity or act shall be

limited to providing the business or industrial entity with copies of application

forms and othe r written information provided by the appropriate federal and local

agencies.

(4) Priority shall be given to business or industrial development or expansion proposals

by businesses or industrial entities participating in an approved business network.