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Revised in September 2009, this document offers ideas and steps for properly managing wastes generated in hospitals.
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​A guide for hog farms and other Animal Feeding Operations (AFO) or Combined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) on their permitting requirements and Best Management Practices. 

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Discover the best ways to dispose of live Christmas trees after the holidays that also benefit the environment.​

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Waste management self-audit for nursing units in hospitals
 
 
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Waste management self-audit for hospitals' environmental services
 
 
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Waste management self-audit for pharmacies in hospitals
 
 
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Kentucky DEP guidance for proper disposal of household pharmaceutical wastes.
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​This fact sheet contains guidance and recommendations on how to safely and properly dispose of needles, syringes and lancelets generated by households.

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Determine whether a waste is hazardous, nonhazardous, industrial class 1, 2 or 3, special waste or excluded.
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An overview of how to become a certified drinking water operator and the educational and experience requirements.
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An overview of how to become a certified wastewater operator and the educational and experience requirements.
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An overview of how to renew your drinking water and/or wastewater certification. 
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An overview of how to renew your drinking water and/or wastewater operator certification.
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This EPA brochure focuses on the needs of drinking water systems serving 3,300 or fewer persons, and illustrates how states can use existing tools, such as capacity self-assessments, to help systems address security concerns. It also explains why states should encourage systems to assess their vulnerabilities and plan for emergencies.
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This series of primers describes the environmental challenges facing more than 35 manufacturing, transportation, agricultural and government sectors. Each notebook contains chapters on typical process operations, pollutants, applicable federal regulations, pollution prevention opportunities, the most common environmental violations within the sector, voluntary initiatives and associated organizations.
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​This fact sheet provides answers for 10 of the most common agriculture environmental compliance questions and resources to assist with compliance.

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​This fact sheet provides compliance and regulatory information pertaining to the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act.

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​An overview and resource document identifying Kentucky DEP certification programs for individuals, companies and laboratories that will perform work in Kentucky

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Various KY DEP permit forms are provided on this site. 
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​Kentucky Division of Water website lisiting of all KPDES general p-ermits with effective and expiration dates, copy of the general permit, permit fact sheet, form links and instructions and guidance documents.

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Find Kentucky Revised Statutes pertaining to air, water and waste under Title XVIII, Chapter 224.
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​This manual provides the auto salvage facility sector with concise, comprehensive environmental regulatory information in an easy-to-use format. This manual contains information concerning the various environmental rules with which auto salvage facilities must comply and for which Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection (DEP) has jurisdiction.

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KY DEP permit or license activity
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​Certified companies for lead inspections and abatement provided by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (Note: The Commonwealth of Kentucky does not endorse any companies or individuals.)

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The Small Entity Compliance Guide to Renovate Right summarizes the requirements of the EPA's program and is for contractors, property managers and maintenance personnel working in homes, child care facilities and schools built before 1978.
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​EPA's Lead-Based Paint RRP handbook for contractors, property managers and maintenance personnel working in homes and child-occupied facilities built before 1998.

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The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Public Health, houses the Environmental Lead Program, which certifies individuals and companies for lead detection, abatement activities and training.
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