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KANSAS ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS
AGENCY 28 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
ARTICLE 66. LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION GRANT PROGRAM
Date:
08/31/2009
Document:
28-66-4. Local environmental protection plan.
(a) A local environmental protection plan shall be developed annually by the local entity and shall be submitted and approved by KDHE prior to any grant award. The local environmental protection plan shall contain the following information:
(1) A cover sheet signed by the chairman of the county board of health and the program director appointed by the county board of health. If the grant applicant is a local entity other than a county health department, the local environmental protection plan shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, a board formed pursuant to K.S.A. 12-2901 et seq. or K.S.A. 12-2908, or other legally formed board which has been approved by KDHE as appropriate for the purposes of implementing a local environmental protection plan;
(2) a description of existing local ordinances and services in each of the core program and supplemental program areas identified in K.A.R. 28-66-1 (b) and K.A.R. 28-66-1 (h)respectively, including the name, address and phone number of the local person responsible for implementing the ordinances and services described;
(3) a statement of each objective for which funding is being requested, and a workplan which identifies the sequence of steps that will be completed in order to accomplish the stated objective and an approximate date of completion for each step; and
(4) a detailed program budget which identifies the costs of program operation including, but not limited to, personnel, travel, supplies, capital expenditures, and subcontracts.
(b) KDHE may issue a base grant after it has been determined that the local environmental protection plan is consistent with the environmental protection strategy of the state water plan, K.S.A. 75-5657, and all other statutes, regulations, documents or guidelines relevant to sanitary or environmental codes, or both, subdivision water and wastewater management, solid waste, hazardous waste, public water supply protection, and nonpoint source pollution.
(c) KDHE may withhold the approval of a local environmental protection plan if it is determined that the local entity has not satisfactorily completed the approved objectives under the previous year's local environmental protection plan, except that the applicant shall be given the opportunity to demonstrate compelling circumstances which prohibited the completion.
(d) Any local environmental protection plan may be amended during the state fiscal year. Each proposed amendment shall be submitted to KDHE in writing and KDHE shall provide written approval of the amendment.
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