KRS 224.20-120: Considerations in fixing standards.

In exercising the power conferred upon it by this chapter the Energy and Environment

Cabinet shall give due recognition to the policy as heretofore expressed in KRS 224.20 -

100. The cabinet, in fixing standards, shall require the use of all available, pract ical, and

reasonable methods to prevent and control air pollution in the Commonwealth of

Kentucky. It shall give due recognition to the quantity of characteristics of air

contaminants or the duration of their presence in the atmosphere. It shall take into

consideration in this connection such factors, among others, found by it to be proper and

just, existing physical conditions, public benefit, that the degree of conformance

therewith that may be proper as to an essentially residential area of the state may not be

proper as to a highly industrial area of the state, and, further, the relationship between the

intensity and composition of air pollution and the health of the public and damage to or

interference with enjoyment of property. It shall give reasonabl e consideration to the

interests of all parties concerned.