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146.485 Powers and duties of commission.
In furtherance of the purposes of KRS 146.410 to 146.530, the commission shall
have the following additional powers and duties:
(1) To seek and approve the dedication of nature preserves as part of the system;
(2) To make and publish policies, rules, and regulations for the selection,
acquisition, management, protection, and use of natural areas and nature
preserves, and for the conduct of commission affairs;
(3) To cooperate with and to contract with any public body of this state, any public
body of any other state, any private organization, any individual, and the
federal government and its agencies;
(4) To purchase land from a willing seller without the use of the powers of
condemnation or eminent domain, which said powers are expressly denied to
the commission;
(5) To make reasonable investigations as to the ownership of any lands which it
judges may be appropriate for acquisition;
(6) To maintain a state registry of natural areas, an inventory of natural types,
flora, and fauna, and other records of natural areas and nature preserves
within the Commonwealth;
(7) To promote the coordination of all departments, divisions and branches of
state, county and city governments within the Commonwealth which relate to
nature preserves;
(8) To study the operation of all laws, rules, regulations, orders, and governmental
policies affecting conservation of natural resources pertaining to natural areas,
and to recommend to the Governor, and to the General Assembly, new
legislation, rules, regulations, orders and policies in the interest of correcting
natural resource conservation problems pertaining to natural areas and nature
preserves;
(9) To provide a central clearing house of information for environmental and
conservation matters and to promote educational programs pertaining to
natural areas and nature preserves;
(10) To conduct research, investigations, public hearings, and interpretative
programs and to publish and disseminate information to the general public
pertaining to natural areas and nature preserves;
(11) To supervise the protection, management, and use of nature preserves and to
enforce and administer rules and regulations pertaining thereto;
(12) To promote, study, investigate, recommend, encourage, advise and assist in
the preservation, protection, and management of natural areas;
(13) To report to the Governor and General Assembly on proposed legislation,
policies, regulations, or actions, public or private, which may significantly affect
the quality of the natural ecology or the human environment in the
Commonwealth. Such report shall include an evaluation of environmental and
ecological effects, and shall compare any adverse effects of the proposed
action against possible social benefits. The report shall describe and
recommend appropriate alternatives, which avoid significant adverse effects on
the quality of the natural ecology of natural areas;
(14) To submit to the Governor and members of the General Assembly, a report on
or before January 15, 1977, and by the same date each second year
thereafter, detailing the condition of each nature preserve in the system, and
each registered natural area, and make such other reports and
recommendations as it may deem advisable.
History: Created 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 118, sec. 16.
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