2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .050   Powers of cabinet.

350.050 Powers of cabinet. The Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet under the supervision of the secretary of the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet shall have and exercise the following authority and powers: (1)  To exercise general supervision and administration and enforcement of this chapter and all rules and regulations and orders promulgated thereunder; (2)  To  encourage  and  conduct  investigations,  research,  experiments,  and demonstrations, and to collect and disseminate information relating to strip mining and reclamation of lands and waters affected by strip mining; (3)  To adopt, without hearing, internal procedures with respect to the filing of reports, the issuance of permits, and other matters of procedure and administration; (4)  To examine and pass upon all plans and specifications submitted by the permit applicant for the method of operation, backfilling, grading, and for the reclamation of the area of land affected by his operation; (5)  To make investigations or inspections which may be deemed necessary to insure compliance with any provision of this chapter; (6)  To order, through personnel of the cabinet, the suspension of any permit for failure to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter or any regulations adopted pursuant thereto; (7)  To order, through personnel of the cabinet, the stopping of any operation that is started without first having secured a permit as required by this chapter. Effective: July 14, 1992 History:Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 429, sec. 3, July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 332, sec. 3, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. III, sec. 13(2),(7) -- Amended 1972 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 3, sec. 64. -- Amended 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 4, sec. 6. -- Amended 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 105, sec. 3. -- Amended 1956, (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 7, Art. VII, sec. 5. -- Created 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 8, sec. 5. Legislative Research Commission Note (6/20/2005). 2005 Ky. Acts chs. 11, 85, 95, 97, 98, 99, 123, and 181 instruct the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and officers whose names have been changed in 2005 legislation confirming the reorganization of the executive branch. Such a correction has been made in this section.