KRS 224A.310: Establishment of incentive programs to encourage consolidation of water

and wastewater systems and elimination of duplication.

(1) The authority shall establish an incentive program that allocates funds from the

water and wastewater service regionalization account that encourages the

regionalization, merger, and consolidation of water and wastewater systems and

elimination of structural and administrative duplication. Established incentives may

be used by government owned and private systems.

(2) The incentive program shall target water and wastewater systems that have high

debt, inadequate operational and maintenance resources, high maintenance costs,

old and inadequately maintained treatment works, a history of violations of the

Division of Water's statutes and administrative regulations due to inadequate

operational and maintenance resources, or insufficient financial resources to extend

system service to unserved or underserved areas.

(3) In developing the incentives to encourage government al agencies to merge,

regionalize, consolidate, and partner with target systems and develop or maintain an

asset management plan, the authority shall give priority to those projects which

have been identified in a water management planning council plan pri oritized under

KRS 151.607 and meet the funding priorities established by the authority.