DESIGN MEMORANDUM NO. 9-98
TO:
Chief District Engineers
Design Engineers
Active Consultants
FROM:
John B. Sacksteder, Director
Division of Highway Design
DATE:
August 24, 1998
SUBJECT:
Waste Sites
Senate Bill No. 211
which was passed during the last legislative session amended KRS 176.050 to
require designers to identify potential waste sites "for a city, county, or
other governmental entity to turn into an industrial park upon completion of the
road project…." Sites must
be "at least four (4) acres in size, along the proposed new route.
The Department shall consult with the appropriate elected officials to
identify waste sites along the proposed new route that may be potential
industrial park sites."
Section 3 (2) of this
bill also states "The purpose of using the site as a repository for waste
is to reduce the cost associated with the project…." Therefore, while the designer now has a new mandate to
consider the potential for industrial sites on all projects with waste, the
actual use of such sites is still predicated upon an actual economic benefit
that can be derived by the Department by using a site.
To ensure consideration of such sites is given, documentation of such
consideration shall become a part of the Project Team's comments on all projects
involving substantial waste material.
When a decision is made
by the Project Team to utilize a waste site suitable for a future industrial
park, the bill also states that "the Department's contractors shall use
stabilization methods to reduce significant differential settling of the
waste…" and "shall continually grade and compact the waste site, and
design surface contours to minimize run-off, until the site is stable…."
Therefore, notes and plan designs will be required to be added to the
plans to meet these conditions.
After the final grading
is complete, "the state shall deed in fee simple the area used as a waste
site to an interested city, county, or other governmental agency."
The public agency is permitted to develop and subsequently resell the
land to private enterprises.
A copy of the complete
Senate Bill is attached for reference.
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