KRS 224.16-060: Cabinet as agency for securing benefits of federal acts.

The cabinet is hereby designated as the water pollution agency for this state and for any

city, county, or district, or authority within this state for all purposes of the Water

Pollution Control Act (Public Law 80 -845 approved June 30, 1948), as amended, as air

pollution agency for this state for all purposes of the Federal Air Quality Act (Public Law

90-148, approved November 21, 1948), as amended, and as solid waste agency for this

state for all purposes of the Federal Solid Waste Disposal Act (Public La w 89 -272,

approved October 20, 1965), as amended, and as management agency for solid waste and

hazardous waste for purposes of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as

amended, (PL 94-580), and as the surface mining agency for this state for all purposes of

the Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (Public Law 95 -87, approved

August 3, 1977), as amended. The cabinet may take all action necessary or appropriate to

secure to this state and all cities, counties, districts, and author ities within this state the

benefits of such federal acts.