State/interstate solid waste planning grants : progress abstracts, January 1969 / Compiled by Daniel D. Swavely and Lee F. Hultgren.
- United States. Bureau of Solid Waste Management
- Date:
- 1969
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: State/interstate solid waste planning grants : progress abstracts, January 1969 / Compiled by Daniel D. Swavely and Lee F. Hultgren. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![KENTUCKY The Kentucky State Department of Health received a three-year Solid Waste Disposal Planning Grant on June 1, 1966. Personnel. The Kentucky Solid Waste Program is presently a four-man operation: a Program Director, public health representative, and two sanitary engineers. Solid Waste Survey. Survey work has included all communities over 5,000 population, 75 percent of the counties, and 100 percent of the Kentucky Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Excess planning grant funds from the first grant-year were used for a service contract with the Institute of Industrial Research at the University of Louisville to collect data as a base for completing the survey work. Land investigation forms have been completed for all 234 refuse disposal sites being operated as open dumps or sanitary landfills in the State. In addition, 26 facility investigation forms have been completed. Solid Waste Legislation and Regulations. An act relating to the regulation and control of solid waste disposal and solid waste dispos- al sites and facilities became effective June 13, 1968, as the Solid Wastes Law. The Kentucky State Board of Health has adopted rules and regulations of general application to accomplish the purposes of this law. A public hearing was conducted by the State Solid Waste Program on the proposed regulations called for in the law, prior to their 3]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32170919_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
