KRS 224.1-300: Definitions for KRS 224.1-300 and 224.1-310.

For purposes of KRS 224.1-300 and 224.1-310 only:

(1) "Pollution control facility" means and includes:

(a) Any property designed, constructed, or installed as a component part of any

commercial or industrial premises for the primary purpose of eliminating or

reducing the emission of, or ground level concentration of, particulate matter,

dust, fumes, gas, mist, smoke, vapor, or odorous substances, or any

combination thereof which renders air harmful or inimical to the health of

persons or to property within this Commonwealth;

(b) Any disposal system or any treatment works, pretreatment works, appliance,

equipment, machinery, or installation constructed, used, or placed in operation

primarily for the purpose of reducing, controlling, or eliminating thermal

pollution or water pollution caused by industrial waste, or what would be

industrial waste, if discharged into the waters of the Commonwealth;

(c) Any disposal system or any appliance, equipment, machinery or installation

constructed, used or placed in operat ion primarily for disposing of waste,

converting waste into an item of real economic value or converting hazardous

waste to nonhazardous waste;

(d) Any property designed, constructed, or installed as a component part of any

commercial or industrial premise s for the primary purpose of eliminating or

reducing the emission of sound which is harmful or inimical to the health of

persons or to property, or materially reduces the quality of the environment in

this Commonwealth; or

(e) Any property designed, constr ucted, or installed for the primary purpose of

removing substances from raw materials, which substances, if permitted to

become a component part of the finished product, would have a deleterious

effect on the environment when the finished product was utilized;

(2) "Industrial waste" means any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance resulting

from any process of industry, manufacture, trade, or business, or from the

development, processing, or recovery of any natural resource, together with such

sewage as is present, which pollutes the waters of the Commonwealth;

(3) "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant,

water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded

material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting

from industrial, commercial, mining (excluding coal mining waste), and agricultural

operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved

material in domestic sewage, or s olid 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);

(4) "Treatment works" means any plant, disposal field, lagoon, dam, pumpi ng station,

incinerator, or other works used for the purpose of treating, stabilizing, or holding

sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes;

(5) "Water pollution" means the placing of any noxious or deleterious substances in

any waters of the Commonwealth which render such waters harmful or inimical to

aquatic life, or to the use of such waters for domestic water supply, or industrial or

agricultural purposes or for recreation;

(6) "Waters of the Commonwealth" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes,

watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and

all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or

artificial, which are situated wholly or partly within, or border upon, this

Commonwealth, or are within its jurisdiction, except those private waters which do

not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters;

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

(8) "Pollution control tax exemption certificate" means t hat certificate issued by the

cabinet pursuant to KRS 224.1-310.