The Kentucky Farm Bureau is alerting motorists that now is the time to be especially on the lookout for roaming deer who wander onto roads, causing auto accidents .

In a news release, it cited statistics from the Kentucky State Police showing that nearly 47 percent of all collisions with deer take place during October, November and December.

If you haven’t gotten enough of Kentucky’s Turtle Man through viral videos of his animal-taming exploits, Animal Planet is about to give you six more hours of him.

Starting at 10 p.m. Nov. 6, Ernie Brown Jr. will be featured in 12 half-hour episodes of Call of the Wildman, a program featuring the Lebanon man digging snapping turtles out of lakes and ponds and engaging in other animal-taming exploits

EPA has initiated the process to develop a national primary drinking water regulation (NPDWR) for perchlorate. An NPDWR will establish a legal limit on the level of perchlorate in drinking water. The legal limit will reflect both the level that protects human health and the level that water systems can achieve using the best available technology.

The Kentucky Rural Water Association, Inc. (KRWA) strongly supports the proposed revisions to the Alternative Rate Filing (ARF) regulation, 807 KAR 5:076. The Public Service Commission should be commended for its efforts to simplify the process for obtaining a general rate adjustment, to reduce the rate case expenses, and to substantially increase the number of utilities eligible to utilize the ARF procedure. KRWA made the following specific comments concerning the proposed ARF regulation: 

In a news release today, the Kentucky Infrastructure (KIA) announced that the public meeting to discuss the Draft 2012 Clean Water State Revolving Fund Intended Use Plan and the Draft 2012 Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Intended Use Plan will be held on August 5th, 2011 at 1:30 pm at the office of KIA located at 1024 Capital Center Drive, Suite 340, Frankfort, Kentucky.
http://migration.kentucky.gov/newsroom/kia/080511loans.htm

A public hearing on proposed amendments to 807 KAR 5:076, the Alternative Rate Filing regulation, will be held on July 25, 2011 at 9:30 a.m., Eastern Time, at the Public Service Commission’s offices at 211 Sower Boulevard, Frankfort, Kentucky.
If you are unable to attend, the hearing will be broadcast on the PSC website and available via teleconference.
Details can be found online at http://smallutilities.ky.gov.
Any questions will be addressed by sending an email to smallutilities@ky.gov or by calling 502-564-3940.

Sabotage by an insider at a major utility facility, including a chemical or oil refinery, could provide al Qaeda with its best opportunity for the kind of massive Sept. 11 anniversary attack Osama bin Laden was planning, according to U.S. officials.
A new intelligence report from the Department of Homeland Security issued Tuesday, titled Insider Threat to Utilities, warns “violent extremists have, in fact, obtained insider positions,” and that “outsiders have attempted to solicit utility-sector employees” for damaging physical and cyber …

As state legislators prepare plans for Kentucky’s 38 Senate seats, 100 House seats and six Congressional districts, a number of laws and practical factors must be considered, a national redistricting expert said today.

Tim Storey, a Senior Fellow with the National Conference of State Legislatures, spoke to members of the Interim Joint Committee on State Government. “This is a redistricting primer or Redistricting 101,” said Senate Co-Chair Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown.

The 2012 DWSRF IUP including the project priority list will be available for public review and comment from July 7, 2011 through August 5, 2011. A public meeting to discuss the plan contents will be held at on August 5, 2011 at 1:30 P.M. EST at the offices of the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority located at 1024 Capital Center Drive, Suite 340, Frankfort, Kentucky. http://www.kia.ky.gov/news/loansDWSRF070711.htm

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Less than two weeks remain for Kentucky residents affected by the severe storms, tornadoes and floods that struck the Commonwealth between April 12 and May 20 to register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for disaster assistance.

Storm survivors in 22 designated Commonwealth counties must register with FEMA in order to obtain federal disaster grants and low-interest loans.