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Kentucky teens eager to get their driver's license now have more options.

Starting this week, Kentucky State police are administering driver test in various counties around the state.

It's part of a pilot project outlined in Senate Bill 107, which was signed into law earlier this year.

Troopers tell us the goal is to help Kentuckians who live in counties without a permanent full-time driver license regional Office.

>> You've just recently taken the written Tess 6 months later.

You want to take your skills test.

The purpose of this pilot program is to provide intermediate skills tests for applicants across the Commonwealth.

To be an immediate eligible applicants you need to be between the ages of 16 18 years old to be an applicant that would be eligible for this location.

You need to live in this county.

So if your main county resident, you are eligible for this location, we are covering 5 different counties in the commonwealth.

The counties include Ban Oldham Grant Perry and Marion.

This program is to prevent applicants for missing too much school.

Too much work.

If they have to travel long distances to another location, which might be a regional office.

So we're hoping that we can mitigate some of that burden by opening up some of these pilot locations that may be closer to home for them.

So far.

We've had a couple of tests.

I think a lot of applicants are happy to have us back in some of the counties that are close to home.

We're compiling data in each one of our locations and that data is to see how efficiently that we can.

Draw some of our numbers away from a really busy offices to some of the closer locations.

If we can remove some of that burden off of the regional offices by opening up a new location such as pollen location.

That would be a success for us.

>> Ksp will submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission next year detailing the impact of the pilot