2011 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 65 GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COUNTIES, CITIES, AND OTHER LOCAL UNITS 65.8901 Legislative findings -- Statutory authority for regional wastewater commission.
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65.8901 Legislative findings -- Statutory authority for regional wastewater
commission.
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The General Assembly finds that regionalization of utility services can benefit
Kentuckians by sharing the capital and operating costs of facilities among many
users while protecting and enhancing the water quality of the Commonwealth's
watersheds, creeks, lakes, and rivers. The General Assembly additionally finds and
declares that:
(a) Continued economic growth in the Commonwealth is dependent upon the
expansion of infrastructure to promote industrial, commercial, and residential
development;
(b) Industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential development must be
undertaken in a manner consistent with applicable planning, and in a manner
that safeguards the waters of the Commonwealth from pollution;
(c) The challenges of improving and safeguarding the quality of the
Commonwealth's watersheds, creeks, streams, lakes, and rivers through
improvements in wastewater infrastructure and expanded wastewater
treatment capacity favor a cooperative, regional approach;
(d) The Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission has realigned the
mission at Fort Knox, a one hundred nine thousand (109,000) acre military
reservation located in three (3) counties of the Commonwealth, resulting in
significant economic expansion in the region encompassing the post;
(e) The ongoing regional economic expansion in the Fort Knox area of Hardin,
Bullitt, and Meade counties resulting from BRAC, and the industrial,
commercial and residential development throughout the Salt River Basin,
including expansion in the adjacent counties of Oldham and Jefferson, provide
a unique opportunity to illustrate the advisability of adopting a regionally
integrated approach to wastewater management as a cost-effective and more
affordable way to preserve Kentucky's water resources; and
(f) It is, therefore, the intent of the General Assembly to authorize the creation of
a regional wastewater commission in accordance with KRS 65.8901 to
65.8923, within the counties of Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade, and
Oldham, or portions of those counties, for the purposes of preserving water
quality and developing infrastructure in the Salt River Basin sufficient to
promote and sustain industrial, commercial, and residential development.
KRS 65.8901 to 65.8923 shall constitute full and complete authority for the creation
of a regional wastewater commission and for carrying out the powers and duties of
the commission.
Effective: June 8, 2011
History: Created 2011 Ky. Acts ch. 98, sec. 1, effective June 8, 2011.
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