This is the second round of funding from the Kentucky Price Fund. In the first round, issued this past September, more than $4.5 million went to clean up 82 sites.
The estimated total cost of the second-round cleanup is $4,188,380.27. Participating counties provide a 25 percent match.
State funding for the dump cleanup is from a $1.75 environmental remediation fee for each ton of garbage generated in Kentucky and disposed of at municipal solid waste disposal facilities. The "tipping fee," authorized by the 2002 General Assembly under House Bill 174, is collected quarterly and placed in the Kentucky Pride Fund to help combat illegal dumping and finance the closure of old landfills.
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