For decades, the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act have improved and protected the nation’s waters and public health. We are all justifiably proud of the significant progress that has been made. As we begin 2010, we must challenge ourselves to do even more. No longer can we afford to look at drinking water, wastewater, stormwater management, and water reuse as segregated issues – crafting solutions to individual challenges without considering the watershed within which these issues coexist. No longer can we afford to look at water issues without taking into account pressures to balance competing demands for water resources, nonpoint source pollution, climate change, energy use and economic factors.
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Water and wastewater professionals from across Kentucky will be gathering for Kentucky Rural Water Association’s 2010 Management Conference on February 23-24, 2010 at the Sloan Convention Center and the Holiday Inn University Plaza Hotel in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
For more information, visit our Management Conference section.
Rural water system personnel attending this event are the driving force in representing our industry in the legislative process, specifically to ensure continued loan and grant availability through RUS and SRF funding. It is also the event that educates the congress and supports recourse for training and technical assistance for the nation’s rural and small systems.
For more details regarding the 2010 Rural Water Rally, Register Now
Congress and various federal agencies are enacting a dozen new rules and procedures that will affect how you do business in 2010.
* Extension of the COBRA subsidy. Employees who are involuntarily separated will continue to have rights to a COBRA subsidy — and you’ll continue to have to do the paperwork and notifications. Expect it: now.
* New regs requiring your company disclose all retirement plan fees and and expenses to participants. These regs are in the “final rule” stage, meaning it’s almost a done deal. Expect it: September 2010.
This week in Frankfort was rather slow from our perspective in the water and wastewater utility business. We have added two bills to our tracking sheets: SB 124, which relates to participation in CERS by agencies that have been merged or were established by interlocal agreement; and HB 349, which proposes to adopt various changes in the Unemployment Insurance program recommended by the UI Task Force report.
The 2010 General Assembly is discussing a proposal for a dramatic change in Kentucky’s tax structure. The primary goal of the proposal is the expansion of the state sales tax to a majority of services. Please download the document that shows the impact on service areas and the net increase in new state tax revenues.
The Kentucky Division of Water has scheduled a Public Hearing for the purpose of soliciting comments from concerned individuals on the draft KPDES General Permit KYG640000. DOW proposes to issue a general permit for wastewater discharges associated with drinking water plant activities. The draft general permit contains water quality based and technology based effluent limitations and conditions. The general permit will expire five (5) years from the effective date of the permit.
The FBI’s WMD Countermeasure Unit II, Infrastructure Protection Team, in collaboration with the EPA, has developed and will host two regional Water Infrastructure Protection and Threat Workshops. The first Workshop will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, February 17th and 18th and be hosted at the FBI’s regional field office.
