State sheet · KY
Tier II reporting requirements in Kentucky
- Deadline
- 1 March, yearly
- Takes our file
- No
- Own thresholds
- No — federal
- Fee
- $40 or $250
- Filing route read
- 2026-09-10
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How Kentucky takes it
Kentucky takes it through Hazconnect, and one submission there covers the state commission, the local committee and the fire department.
This state does not take the file. Our answer works as the worksheet you type from, with the rule behind every number.
The filing is due 1 March each year and covers the calendar year before it. Kentucky passes it on for you — one submission covers all three. Worth a call to your county, though: a few run their own list on top.
Before you send it — what else Kentucky asks for
Kentucky charges a filing fee, and the amount is set in the regulation rather than shown only at checkout — 106 KAR 1:081 §3. A government-run site (Category One) pays nothing. A site with ten or fewer hazardous substances, each between 10,000 and 499,999 pounds and under 499,999 pounds all told, is Category Two and pays $40. Eleven or more such substances (still under 499,999 pounds total) is Category Three, over 499,999 pounds total is Category Four, and — this is the one that catches people — any site holding an extremely hazardous substance at all is Category Five. Three, Four and Five each pay $250. Most sites that file Tier II hold an EHS, so budget for $250 unless you are sure you do not. Filing late costs a further $250 per facility. A site with an extremely hazardous substance over its planning quantity owes one more thing each 1 March: review its emergency response plan and send a Facility Annual Certification Letter to the LEPC.
Does Kentucky set its own limits?
We have read Kentucky's own code and it uses the federal thresholds. That is a checked answer, not an assumption.
Kentucky adopts the federal thresholds by reference in its own regulation, and sets a fee schedule on top of them.
The words we read
Kentucky, 106 KAR 1:081 (apps.legislature.ky.gov, read directly 2026-09-10). Section 2(3)(a): “The minimum reporting thresholds shall be as established at 40 C.F.R.” — the regulation adopts the federal numbers by reference rather than setting Kentucky ones. Section 2(3)(b) does the same for exemptions: “The EPCRA chemical exemptions shall be those exemptions established in 40 C.F.R.” Fees sit in Section 3(1): “There shall not be a fee for a Category One Facility”; “The fee for a Category Two Facility shall be forty (40) dollars”; “The fee for a Category Three Facility shall be $250.” Categories Four and Five are also $250, and Category Five is “any facility that has an Extremely Hazardous Substance (EHS)” — which catches most Tier II filers.
Where we read this
- Kentucky Emergency Management (SERC), Hazconnect Tier II reporting, read 2026-09-05: “Tier II reports and fees are due annually by March 1”; “Reports submitted after the due date of March 1, will be fined a one-time late fee of $250 per facility”; thresholds stated as the federal ones — 10,000 lb, and 500 lb or TPQ (whichever is less) for extremely hazardous substances. EPA, “State Tier II Reporting Requirements and Procedures” — Kentucky: “a single submittal through Hazconnect® satisfies all three submissions”.106 KAR 1:081 (apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/kar/titles/106/001/081/), read 2026-09-10. Threshold: “The minimum reporting thresholds shall be as established at 40 C.F.R. Part 370.” Due date, §2(2)(c): “No later than March 1 each year.” Fees, §3(1): “There shall not be a fee for a Category One Facility”; “The fee for a Category Two Facility shall be forty (40) dollars”; “The fee for a Category Three Facility shall be $250.”; “The fee for a Category Four Facility shall be $250.”; “The fee for a Category Five Facility shall be $250.” Categories, §1: Category Two is “any facility that has not less than 10,000 pounds and not more than 499,999 pounds of each of ten (10) or fewer hazardous substances, with the combined total of all hazardous substances not exceeding 499,999 pounds”; Category Three “10,000 pounds or more of each of eleven (11) or more hazardous substances, with the combined total … not exceeding 499,999 pounds”; Category Four “a total inventory of over 499,999 pounds”; Category Five “any facility that has an Extremely Hazardous Substance (EHS)”; Category One is a government-owned site exempt from fees under KRS 39E.050 but not from reporting. The KYEM web page does not print the fee; the regulation does.106 KAR 1:081 (apps.legislature.ky.gov), read 2026-10-12: “‘Facility Annual Certification Letter’ or ‘FACL’ means the annual letter provided to the Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) by any facility that has an EHS in excess of the TPQ to certify that the current EHS Facility Emergency Response Plan has been reviewed”; Section 4(2): “each March 1 any facility that has an EHS in excess of the TPQ shall review the EHS Facility Emergency Response Plan and send a FACL to the LEPC.”Checked 2026-09-10
- Kentucky, 106 KAR 1:081 (apps.legislature.ky.gov, read directly 2026-09-10). Section 2(3)(a): “The minimum reporting thresholds shall be as established at 40 C.F.R.” — the regulation adopts the federal numbers by reference rather than setting Kentucky ones. Section 2(3)(b) does the same for exemptions: “The EPCRA chemical exemptions shall be those exemptions established in 40 C.F.R.” Fees sit in Section 3(1): “There shall not be a fee for a Category One Facility”; “The fee for a Category Two Facility shall be forty (40) dollars”; “The fee for a Category Three Facility shall be $250.” Categories Four and Five are also $250, and Category Five is “any facility that has an Extremely Hazardous Substance (EHS)” — which catches most Tier II filers.The state’s own code
- Kentucky’s own Tier II pageWe can be right today and the state can change tomorrow. This link does not go stale.
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