Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's Environmental Policy

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will use practical means and measures to provide an environmentally sound, fiscally responsible, safe and efficient transportation system which promotes conditions under which people and nature can exist in productive harmony while providing for economic growth and enhancing the quality of life for present and future generations of Kentuckians.

The principles and responsibilities of the above policy statement which we are incorporating into the culture and fabric of our organization and daily activities are as follows:

Stewardship
We will strive to protect, conserve, restore, and enhance the natural and human environment, while we plan, design, construct, and maintain facilities that meet transportation needs.

Leadership
We will promote development, sharing and the integration of sensitive and innovative environmental practices and technologies into planning, design, construction, and maintenance activities to encourage personnel to value and take pride in their environmental leadership roles.

Partnership
We will seek stewardship opportunities to cooperatively partner with the public, federal and state resource agencies to identify shared visions, missions, and goals which will result in new consensus building processes, new methods and protocols, and new design and environmental technologies to be applied on mutually beneficial undertakings.

Practice
We will employ Context Sensitive Solutions to ensure that our planning, design, construction, and maintenance activities reflect community and environmental values as determined through proactive involvement with the public, resource agencies, and other stakeholders.

Commitment
Our Cabinet is committed to a culture that embraces environmental leadership with an unwavering focus on protecting the environment through stewardship and our devotion to satisfy the public, resource agencies, and other stakeholders as the primary measure of success in carrying out our mission.

By working with the public, resource agencies and other stakeholders to integrate environmental stewardship into our daily activities, the Cabinet is responding to the wishes and needs of its customers, the values it holds foremost as public servants while acting in the spirit of environmental law. It is the right thing to do for transportation and the human and natural environment.

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