Title 22a — Title 22a: Environmental Protection

Sec. 22a-218. (Formerly Sec. 19-524l). State aid to municipal and regional authorities for volume reduction plants and landfill operations. (a) The commissioner shall make a grant to any municipal or regional authority composed of two or more municipalities which, after July 1, 1…

Sec. 22a-219. (Formerly Sec. 19-524m). Grants to municipal or regional authorities for improvements of waste disposal facilities. The commissioner shall make a grant to any municipal or regional authority which, prior to July 1, 1969, constructed a volume reduction plant or rebui…

Sec. 22a-219a. Definitions. For the purposes of sections 22a-219b and 22a-219c: (1) “Resources recovery facility” means a facility utilizing processes to reclaim energy from solid wastes; (2) “Long-term” means the useful life of a resources recovery facility or the term of financ…

Sec. 22a-219b. Grants to municipalities for resources recovery facilities. (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may make a grant, within available appropriations, for financial assistance to any municipality which has entered into a long-term contract to de…

Sec. 22a-219c. Grants to municipalities for resources recovery facilities operating on June 1, 1987. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may make a grant, within available appropriations, for financial assistance to a municipality for each ton of solid waste g…

Sec. 22a-219d. Municipal Tipping Fee Fund. There is established a fund to be known as the “Municipal Tipping Fee Fund”. The purpose of the Municipal Tipping Fee Fund shall be to provide for the payment of grants to municipalities pursuant to section 22a-219b or 22a-219c. The fund…

Sec. 22a-219e. Grants from Municipal Tipping Fee Fund. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or special act to the contrary, (1) the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall make a grant for financial assistance under section 22a-219b, revision of…

Sec. 22a-220. (Formerly Sec. 19-524n). Municipal provisions for solid waste disposal. Toxic or hazardous waste disposal. Recycling goal. Municipal representative. Report to commissioner. Program deficiencies. (a) Each municipal authority shall make provisions for the safe and san…

Sec. 22a-220a. Designation by municipality of areas for solid waste disposal. Designation of areas for items generated from residential properties. Registration of solid waste collectors. Reports by solid waste collectors. Scavenging. (a) The legislative body of a municipality ma…

Sec. 22a-220b. Payments to municipalities by operators of solid waste land disposal facilities. The owner or operator of a solid waste land disposal facility shall pay to the municipality in which such facility is located fifty cents for each ton of solid waste that is received a…

Sec. 22a-220c. Notification to collectors re items required to be recycled. Warning notices. Inspections. Notification to municipalities re delinquent tipping fees. (a) Each municipality, or its regional agent, shall, by mail, notify all collectors registered to haul solid waste …

Sec. 22a-220d. Warning. Penalty. The owner or operator of any resources recovery facility or landfill who fails to notify a municipality about the delivery of loads of solid waste originating from the municipality containing significant quantities of recyclable items, as required…

Sec. 22a-220e. Municpal glass collection pilot program. Requirements. Report. Notwithstanding subsection (f) of section 22a-220, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, upon the request of a municipality, shall authorize a two-year pilot program for the collection …

Sec. 22a-220f. Unit-based pricing program for municipal solid waste disposal. Incentive program. Not later than July 1, 2022, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall develop an incentive program to assist municipalities that wish to adopt a unit-based pricin…

Sec. 22a-221. (Formerly Sec. 19-524o). Contracts with regard to solid waste management. (a) The state, any municipality or any municipal or regional authority may make contracts for the exercise of its corporate or municipal powers with respect to the collection, transportation, …

Sec. 22a-221a. Operating committees declared to be public instrumentalities and political subdivisions of the state. Any operating committee established pursuant to subsection (c) of section 22a-221 shall constitute a public instrumentality and political subdivision of the state …

Sec. 22a-221b. Disposal of solid waste collected from state facilities. Each department head, as defined in section 4-5, other than the Commissioner of Transportation, shall ensure that any municipal solid waste removed from any state facility or property under his jurisdiction s…

Sec. 22a-222. Grants to resource recovery authorities for feasibility studies and development expenses for a resource recovery system or incinerator. (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall make a grant for financial assistance to any resources recovery …

Sec. 22a-223. Funds for preliminary feasibility studies of energy recovery systems or incinerators by governmental entities. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may, from proceeds of the sale of state bonds allocated by the State Bond Commission to the Departm…

Sec. 22a-224. Study and construction of resource recovery systems at certain state mental health hospitals. Contracts for purchase of steam or electricity from systems. Section 22a-224 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 83-424, S. 1, 2; P.A. 84-79, S. 1, 2; P.A. 95-257…

Sec. 22a-225. Orders. Appeals. (a) The commissioner may issue, modify or revoke orders correcting or abating violations under this chapter or adopting other remedial measures as are necessary to correct or abate such violations. Such orders may be issued to any person who violate…

Sec. 22a-226. Civil penalty. (a) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any regulation, permit or order adopted or issued under this chapter, or any owner of land who knowingly permits such violations to occur on his land, shall be assessed a civil penalty not t…

Sec. 22a-226a. Penalty. Any person who knowingly violates any provision of section 22a-252, 22a-208a or 22a-208c, subsection (c) or (d) of section 22a-250, any permit issued under section 22a-208a, any regulation adopted under section 22a-209 or 22a-231, or any order issued pursu…

Sec. 22a-226b. Penalty for violations placing another in imminent danger of death or bodily injury. Any person who, in the commission of a violation for which a penalty would be imposed under section 22a-226a, knowingly places another person, by commission of such violation, in i…

Sec. 22a-226c. Penalty for illegal disposal of biomedical waste. (a) Any person who disposes of biomedical waste, as defined in section 22a-207, in violation of any provision of this chapter or chapter 446k or any regulation adopted thereunder, shall be assessed a civil penalty n…

Sec. 22a-226d. Municipal enforcement of solid waste disposal laws. Penalties. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7-148, any municipality may establish, by ordinance, a fine for a violation of (1) subsection (a) of section 22a-250, (2) an ordinance adopted pursuant to s…

Sec. 22a-226e. Recycling of source-separated organic materials. Fees reporting requirement. Voluntary municipal pilot program. Food donated and recycled report. (a)(1) On and after January 1, 2014, each commercial food wholesaler or distributor, industrial food manufacturer or pr…

Sec. 22a-226f. Municipal aerated static pile composting facilities. Commercial entity and school system diversion of source-separated organic materials. Reach out and education effort. Report. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall engage in a reach out and…

Sec. 22a-226g. Specifications for production, quality and use of compost from source-separated organic materials and mixed municipal solid waste. Regulations. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Connec…

Sec. 22a-227. Municipal solid waste management plan. (a) On or before January 1, 1987, a municipality may submit to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection a plan for the next twenty-year period for the management of all solid waste generated within its boundaries…

Sec. 22a-228. State-wide solid waste management plan. Regulations. Source reduction component. Disposal at out-of-state facilities. (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 establishing pro…

Sec. 22a-228a. Recycle CT Foundation, Inc. and Recycle CT Foundation Council. Membership. Duties. (a) There is established the Recycle CT Foundation, Inc., a nonstock, nonprofit corporation, organized under the laws of the state of Connecticut as a state chartered foundation. The…

Sec. 22a-229. Consistency with plan. Polystyrene packaging. (a) After the adoption of a state-wide solid waste management plan pursuant to section 22a-228, any action taken by a person, municipality or regional authority that is governed by this chapter shall be consistent with s…

Sec. 22a-230. Orders to implement plan. After the adoption of a state-wide solid waste management plan pursuant to section 22a-228, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may issue, modify or revoke any order issued pursuant to chapter 446d which he deems necessa…

Sec. 22a-231. Regulations re operating procedures for resources recovery facilities. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Commissioner of Public Health, shall establish by regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapte…

Sec. 22a-232. Solid waste assessment. Penalty imposed for nonpayment. (a) There shall be paid to the Commissioner of Revenue Services by the owner of any resources recovery facility one dollar per ton of solid waste processed at the facility beginning on the date of commencement …

Sec. 22a-233. Solid waste account. Annual report. Section 22a-233 is repealed, effective October 1, 2009. (P.A. 86-332, S. 6, 20; P.A. 87-489, S. 3, 14; P.A. 92-235, S. 1, 6; P.A. 94-130, S. 3; P.A. 96-163, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 513.)

Sec. 22a-233a. Costs of testing. Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, any cost of testing a resources recovery facility or any other activity eligible for payment shall be paid by the owner of the facility, including any cost associated with: (1) Continuou…

Sec. 22a-234. Advisory Board for Solid Waste Management Alternatives. Section 22a-234 is repealed. (P.A. 86-332, S. 7, 20; P.A. 87-544, S. 9, 13; 87-589, S. 50, 87; P.A. 91-190, S. 8, 9.)

Sec. 22a-234a. Assessment on solid waste processed at resources recovery facility or mixed municipal solid waste landfill. Hearing and appeal. (a) Beginning on and after July 1, 1992, and ending on June 30, 1994, there shall be paid to the Commissioner of Revenue Services by the …

Sec. 22a-235. Operations and maintenance plan. (a) The owner or operator of each resources recovery facility shall submit an operations and maintenance plan to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection for his approval. The plan shall include provisions for the iden…

Sec. 22a-235a. List of municipalities without contracts to dispose of solid waste. On and after January 1, 1990, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall prepare and revise a list of all municipalities without contracts to dispose of …

Sec. 22a-235b. Solicitation of solid waste from municipalities on list prepared by commissioner. The operator of a resources recovery facility or incinerator that accepts for disposal solid waste generated out of the state shall not enter into a contract to accept such waste on a…

Sec. 22a-236. Applicability of certain sections to resources recovery facilities. The provisions of sections 22a-6a, 22a-6b, 22a-176, 22a-190 to 22a-193, inclusive, and 22a-231 to 22a-239a, inclusive, shall apply to any resources recovery plant or facility operating on or after J…

Sec. 22a-237. Inspection of resources recovery facilities. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall be responsible for inspection of all aspects of the operation of resources recovery facilities in order to protect the public health, including, but not limite…

Sec. 22a-238. Appointment of resources recovery facility inspector by municipality or group of municipalities. Regulations re qualifications. (a) Any municipality where a resources recovery facility is located or any group of municipalities participating in a resources recovery f…

Sec. 22a-239. Chief elected official's right of access to facility for inspection of premises and review of records. Time allowed for response to complaints. The chief elected official and the director of health of the municipality where a resources recovery facility is located, …

Sec. 22a-239a. Independent management audits of resources recovery facilities. Any regional operating or policy committee established to oversee or supervise the operations of any resources recovery facility, or a majority of the chief elected officials of the municipalities whic…

Sec. 22a-240. Public education on risk assessment and risk management. Section 22a-240 is repealed, effective October 1, 2013. (P.A. 86-332, S. 16, 20; P.A. 87-489, S. 8, 14; P.A. 91-190, S. 4, 9; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 13-209, S…

Sec. 22a-240a. Studies of dioxin levels in area of proposed resources recovery facilities. (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Commissioner of Public Health, shall conduct a study of dioxin levels in the area of any existing or pr…