2013 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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