Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 401 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET - DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 50 - Division for Air Quality; General Administrative Procedures › Section 401 KAR 50:020 - Air quality control regions

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS Chapter 224
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				224.10-100 requires the Environmental and
				Public Protection Cabinet to prescribe administrative regulations for the
				prevention, abatement, and control of air pollution. This administrative
				regulation provides for the designation and classification of air quality
				control regions.
Section 1.
			 Designation of Air Quality Control Regions. Air quality control regions
			 designated by the Administrator of the U.S. EPA pursuant to Section 107 of the
			 Clean Air Act as amended are listed in this section. The air quality control
			 regions consist of the territorial area encompassed by the boundaries of the
			 designated jurisdictions herein geographically located within the outermost
			 boundaries of the area so delimited.
(1)
			 Appalachian Intrastate Air Quality Control Region. In the Commonwealth of
			 Kentucky the following counties: Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson,
			 Johnson, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Magoffin, Martin, Owsley,
			 Perry, Pike, Rockcastle, Whitley, Wolfe.
(2) Bluegrass Intrastate Air Quality Control
			 Region. In the Commonwealth of Kentucky the following counties: Anderson,
			 Bourbon, Boyle, Clark, Estill, Fayette, Franklin, Garrard, Harrison, Jessamine,
			 Lincoln, Madison, Mercer, Nicholas, Powell, Scott, Woodford.
(3) Evansville (Indiana) - Owensboro -
			 Henderson (Kentucky) Interstate Air Quality Control Region. In the Commonwealth
			 of Kentucky the following counties: Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, McLean, Ohio,
			 Union, Webster.
(4) Huntington
			 (West Virginia) - Ashland (Kentucky) - Portsmouth - Ironton (Ohio) Interstate
			 Air Quality Control Region. In the Commonwealth of Kentucky the following
			 counties: Bath, Boyd, Bracken, Carter, Elliott, Fleming, Greenup, Lawrence,
			 Lewis, Mason, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Robertson, Rowan.
(5) Louisville Interstate Air Quality Control
			 Region. In the Commonwealth of Kentucky the following county:
			 Jefferson.
(6) Metropolitan
			 Cincinnati (Ohio) Interstate Air Quality Control Region. In the Commonwealth of
			 Kentucky the following counties: Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant,
			 Kenton, Owen, Pendleton.
(7) North
			 Central Kentucky Intrastate Air Quality Control Region. In the Commonwealth of
			 Kentucky the following counties: Breckinridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Hardin, Henry,
			 Larue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, Trimble,
			 Washington.
(8) Paducah (Kentucky)
			 - Cairo (Illinois) Interstate Air Quality Control Region. In the Commonwealth
			 of Kentucky the following counties: Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle,
			 Christian, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon,
			 Marshall, McCracken, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg.
(9) South Central Kentucky Intrastate Air
			 Quality Control Region. In the Commonwealth of Kentucky the following counties:
			 Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Edmonson, Green,
			 Hart, Logan, McCreary, Metcalfe, Monroe, Pulaski, Russell, Simpson, Taylor,
			 Warren, Wayne.