KRS 224.43-810: Policy declaration.

(1) It shall be the policy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to encourage and promote

the establishment of a regional integrated waste treatment and disposal

demonstration facility which utilizes efficient, environmentally acceptable and

commercially feasible te chnologies, techniques, and processes for maximizing

resource recovery and energy generation from the treatment and disposal of

hazardous waste in Kentucky and minimizing land disposal.

(2) This policy may be implemented by contracts and agreements with th e federal

government and its agencies and with other organizations, including private

industry, and through organizations that may be formed jointly by the state, the

federal government or its agencies, and private industry to establish a regional

integrated waste treatment and disposal demonstration facility in such

organizational form or legal entity deemed appropriate by the participants.

(3) This policy may be implemented by the expenditure of state funds for the

preliminary engineering and planning, de sign, construction and operation of a

regional integrated waste treatment and disposal demonstration facility project in

Kentucky, and for the acquisition and improvement of land, construction of roads,

and provision of other public facilities incidental a nd necessary to the

accomplishment of this project in Kentucky.

(4) This policy may be implemented by the sale of state property to organizations

engaged in a regional integrated waste treatment and disposal demonstration facility

project in Kentucky, either for a fair and reasonable consideration or solely or partly

as all or a portion of the state's participation in this project.

(5) This policy may be implemented by acquisition, by purchase, or by option to

purchase the fee simple title to, or any accept able lesser interest in such rights -of-

way, franchises, or easements, including submerged lands and riparian rights that

are necessary for the construction, use or operation of any authorized regional

integrated waste treatment and disposal demonstration f acility project and for the

construction and operation of a line of railroad, truck road, overhead conveyor, or

other transportation facilities together with the necessary rights of ingress and

egress to construct, examine, alter, repair, maintain, operate , or remove such

transportation facilities.

(6) This policy may be implemented by contracts and agreements for the

Commonwealth to purchase all or a portion of the usable output of this project,

either for a fair and reasonable consideration or solely or partly as all or a portion of

the state's participation in the project, and to dispose of this output by use in state

facilities or by resale at fair market value.