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This EPA fact sheet discusses the importance of proper operation and maintenance of a collection system. It also provides information on collection system sewer cleaning and inspections.
Operator Certification and Licensing
This EPA fact sheet discusses collection systems and the conventional gravity method in sewers.
Operator Certification and Licensing
This EPA fact sheet discusses proper operation and maintenance and how it relates to combined sewer overflows.
Operator Certification and Licensing
This EPA fact sheet discusses combined sewer overflows and how storage is often the best measure for attenuating peak combined sewer flows. This fact sheet describes near-surface, off-line retention basins.
Operator Certification and Licensing
This tool will help organizations routinely assess their environmental compliance needs. Being proactive and ensuring that the organization is meeting its environmental needs and responsibilities will enhance the organization's reputation, instill a sense of pride among its employees and serve as a tool to maximize financial profits.
Compliance Assistance

Learn about federal and state environmental obligations in plain language. Look for the center specific to your industry or sector. Examples include printing, construction, automotive service and repair, agricultural and local government. You can also access compliance tools and online training. ​

Compliance Assistance
This EPA guide discusses how to protect the health of customers by limiting the amount of arsenic drinking water to reduce the risk of cancer and other diseases. The guide gives information on how the arsenic rule affects your system, strategies to reduce arsenic in your drinking water and the monitoring and reporting responsibilities under the arsenic rule.
Operator Certification and Licensing

​Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center maintains a consultant directory of companies that provide a variety of environmental management services. (Note: The Commonwealth of Kentucky does not endorce any companies or individuals.)

Compliance Assistance
This site is a resource for information regarding financing brownfield projects.  ​
Brownfields
A best practices guide for cross-connection control that discusses the importance of controlling cross-connections and preventing backflow occurrences from unprotected cross-connections in the water system.
Operator Certification and Licensing

A compliance guide, revised in February 2015, for the New Sourcer Performance Standard (40 CFR 60, Subpart OOOO) for Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production, Transmission, and Distribution. This guidance includes informaiton for well drilling and post-drilling operations.

Compliance Assistance

​New technology-based standards have been released by the EPA to reduce the discharge of mercury and other metals used by dental offices into publically owned treatment works (POTWs, municipal sewage treatment plants).

Compliance Assistance
The DMR Manual, revised in January 2017, is a guide that explains DMR-required calculations, reporting procedures and DMR submission using NetDMR.​
Compliance Assistance
Fact Sheet outlining the proper ways to dispose of storm and flood debris.​
Compliance Assistance

​This fact sheet explains how farms may use distillers grains for livestock or to apply to land.

Compliance Assistance

​This fact sheet explains how distillers grains are marketed and the environmental requirements that apply to them.

Compliance Assistance

​Guidance and best practices for organizers of drug take-back programs.

Compliance Assistance
This list offers a variety of leak detectors.


Compliance Assistance

​This calendar was prepared by the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet's Division of Compliance Assistance. The purpose of this calendar is to help dry cleaning facilities track key records that will document self-inspections and chemical usage.

Compliance Assistance

​This workbook provides guidance for dry cleaners about how to stay in compliance with Kentucky air quality, water quality and waste management permits and regulations.

Compliance Assistance

This form is required for small businesses looking to receive free air permitting assistance through our Small Business Environmental Assistance Program (SBEAP). To qualify, the business must be independently owned and operated with fewer than 100 employees, and cannot be a major source of air emissions.  ​

Compliance Assistance
This agency administers a public works grant program and an economic dislocation program that can be used for brownfield rehabilitation. 
Brownfields

​This fact sheet contains potential environmental responsibilities relating to stream work following a severe weather event, including permitting requirementa and financial assistance.

Compliance Assistance
This EPA guide for small businesses provides information to determine the highest amounts of certain pollutants that a business could release into the air.
Compliance Assistance
Air emissions spreadsheets help small businesses determine if they need an air emissions permit or track compliance with their air emissions permit.
Compliance Assistance
The EPA defines emission factors and provides a formula for computing the emissions estimations.
Compliance Assistance

​The EPA's online database that contains emission factors developed for criteria pollutants and HAPs for industrial and nonindustrial processes. 

Compliance Assistance
This U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) site provides details, clarifications and options about emissions factors having been applied in determining site-specific applicability and emissions limitations in operating permits by federal, state, local and tribal agencies, consultants and industry.
Compliance Assistance
 Operator Certification and Licensing
 Operator Certification and Licensing

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