146.115 Kentucky soil erosion and water quality cost-share fund -- Uses -- Administrative regulations. - Kentucky Statutes

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Page 1 of 1 146.115 Kentucky soil erosion and water quality cost-share fund -- Uses -- Administrative regulations. (1) There is established the "Kentucky Soil Erosion and Water Quality Cost-Share Fund" to be administered by the Soil and Water Conservation Commission. Moneys
from the fund shall be used for cost-share programs to provide financial assistance
for implementation of best management practices for the following purposes:
(a) Providing cleaner water through the reduction in sediment loading of Kentucky streams, rivers, and lakes; (b) Reducing the loss of topsoil vital to the sustained production of food and fiber; and (c) Preventing surface water and groundwater pollution. (2) The commission is empowered to promulgate administrative regulations establishing practices eligible for cost-sharing funds, prioritizing applications, and
prescribing amounts and limits of cost sharing. Practices eligible for cost-sharing
funds shall include agricultural and silvicultural practices. Local conservation
districts shall determine the eligibility of persons to receive the funds allocated to
the districts by the commission. Priority for funding within each local conservation
district shall be given to animal waste management systems, where animal waste
has been identified as a water pollution problem, and to members of an agricultural
district. (3) Any person engaged in agricultural or silvicultural production may be considered for funding under this section if the person has had prepared a soil and water
conservation plan with the local conservation district, has had prepared a forest
management or forest stewardship plan, or has had prepared a groundwater
protection plan and agrees to maintain best management practices for a period of
time specified by the commission. (4) Up to five percent (5%) of any total annual appropriation may be used for administrative costs of the local conservation districts and the commission. Effective: July 15, 1994
History: Created 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 241, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1994; and ch. 390, sec. 34, effective July 15, 1994. Formerly codified as KRS 146.121, renumbered effective January 1, 1995.
Legislative Research Commission Note (1/11/95). 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 390, sec. 34, originally codified as KRS 146.121, is identical to this statute and has been merged
into this statute.