Title 22a — Title 22a: Environmental Protection

Sec. 22a-416. (Formerly Sec. 25-26). Pollution of waterways. Qualifications of operators. Delegation of authority. (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall examine all existing or proposed disposal systems, and shall compel their operation in a manner whi…

Sec. 22a-417. (Formerly Sec. 25-26a). Discharge of sewage into tributaries of water supply impoundments or Salmon River. (a) No person or municipality shall discharge any sewage into any waters of the state which are tributary to an existing water supply impoundment or any propos…

Sec. 22a-418. (Formerly Sec. 25-27). Complaints concerning pollution of waters; investigation; orders. Section 22a-418 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 4036; 1971, P.A. 688, S. 2; 872, S. 75; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 86-239, S. 13, 14.)

Secs. 22a-419 to 22a-421. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 22a-422. (Formerly Sec. 25-54a). Declaration of policy. It is found and declared that the pollution of the waters of the state is inimical to the public health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the state, is a public nuisance and is harmful to wildlife, fish and aqua…

Sec. 22a-423. (Formerly Sec. 25-54b). Definitions. As used in this chapter: “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection or his designated agent; “waters” means all tidal waters, harbors, estuaries, rivers, brooks, watercourses, waterways, wells, s…

Sec. 22a-424. (Formerly Sec. 25-54c). Powers and duties of commissioner. The commissioner shall have the following powers and duties: (a) To exercise general supervision of the administration and enforcement of this chapter; (b) To develop comprehensive programs for the preventio…

Sec. 22a-424a. Map of anticipated sewer overflows and sewage spills. Notice of reported sewage spills and permitted sewage bypasses. Electronic reporting of sewage spill and permitted sewage bypass. Notice to municipal chief elected official, local public health official, potenti…

Sec. 22a-425. (Formerly Sec. 25-54d). Records. The commissioner may require any person or municipality to maintain such records relating to pollution, possible pollution or the operation of pollution abatement facilities as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this c…

Sec. 22a-426. (Formerly Sec. 25-54e). Standards of water quality. (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to establish standards of water quality applicable to the various waters of the s…

Sec. 22a-427. (Formerly Sec. 25-54f). Pollution or discharge of wastes prohibited. No person or municipality shall cause pollution of any of the waters of the state or maintain a discharge of any treated or untreated wastes in violation of any provision of this chapter. (1967, P.…

Sec. 22a-428. (Formerly Sec. 25-54g). Orders to municipalities to abate pollution. If the commissioner finds that any municipality is causing pollution of the waters of the state, or that a community pollution problem exists, or that pollution by a municipality or a community pol…

Sec. 22a-428a. State-wide strategy to reduce phosphorus loading in inland nontidal waters. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, or the commissioner's designee and the chief elected officials of the cities of Danbury, Meriden and Waterbury and the towns of Ches…

Sec. 22a-429. (Formerly Sec. 25-54h). Order to person to abate pollution. Section 22a-429 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 57, S. 8; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 84; P.A. 73-665, S. 9, 17; P.A. 81-176, S. 3, 7; P.A. 87-261, S. 13.)

Sec. 22a-430. (Formerly Sec. 25-54i). Permit for new discharge. Regulations. Renewal. Special category permits or approvals. Limited delegation. General permits. (a) No person or municipality shall initiate, create, originate or maintain any discharge of water, substance or mater…

Sec. 22a-430a. Delegation of authority to issue certain permits to municipal water pollution control authorities. Section 22a-430a is repealed, effective October 1, 1997. (P.A. 86-82, S. 3, 5; P.A. 87-235, S. 2; 87-261, S. 10; P.A. 97-162, S. 5.)

Sec. 22a-430b. General permits. Certifications by qualified professionals. Regulations. (a)(1) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may issue a general permit for a category or categories of discharges regulated pursuant to section 22a-430, except for a dischar…

Sec. 22a-430c. Annual inventory of persons and municipalities in significant noncompliance. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall make available to the public an annual inventory of the persons or municipalities which have been issued a permit under sectio…

Sec. 22a-431. (Formerly Sec. 25-54j). Periodic investigation of discharges. Order to abate or submit information. The commissioner shall periodically investigate and review those sources of discharge which are operating pursuant to any order, permit, directive, registration or de…

Sec. 22a-432. (Formerly Sec. 25-54k). Order to correct potential sources of pollution. If the commissioner finds that any person has established a facility or created a condition before or after June 25, 1985, or is maintaining any facility or condition which reasonably can be ex…

Sec. 22a-433. (Formerly Sec. 25-54l). Order to landowner. Whenever the commissioner issues an order to abate pollution to any person pursuant to the provisions of section 22a-430 or 22a-431, an order to correct potential sources of pollution pursuant to the provisions of section …

Sec. 22a-434. (Formerly Sec. 25-54m). Filing of order on land records. When the commissioner issues a final order to any person to correct potential sources of pollution or to abate pollution, the commissioner shall cause a certified copy thereof to be filed on the land records i…

Sec. 22a-434a. Notice of contaminated wells; abatement of contamination or abandonment of well to be on land records. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may cause to be filed on the land records in the town wherein the subject land is located a notice that wa…

Sec. 22a-435. (Formerly Sec. 25-54n). Injunction. If any person or municipality fails to comply with any order to abate pollution, or any part thereof, issued pursuant to the provisions of section 22a-428, 22a-431 or 22a-433, and no request for a hearing on such order or appeal t…

Sec. 22a-436. (Formerly Sec. 25-54o). Hearing on order to abate. Each order to abate pollution issued under section 22a-428 or 22a-431 or decision under subsection (b) or (c) of section 22a-430 shall be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the subject of such orde…

Sec. 22a-437. (Formerly Sec. 25-54p). Appeal. (a) Any person who or municipality which is aggrieved by a decision under subsection (b) or (c) of section 22a-430 or by any order of the commissioner other than an order under section 22a-6b, to abate pollution may, after a hearing b…

Sec. 22a-438. (Formerly Sec. 25-54q). Forfeiture for violations. Penalties. (a) Any person who or municipality which violates any provision of this chapter, or section 22a-6 or 22a-7 shall be assessed a civil penalty not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, to be fixed by the …

Sec. 22a-439. (Formerly Sec. 25-54r). State grant for sewers and pollution abatement facilities. Commissioner to adopt regulations. (a) The commissioner shall make a grant to any municipality which, after May 1, 1967, constructs, rebuilds, expands or acquires a pollution abatemen…

Sec. 22a-439a. Funds for construction of facilities by state agencies. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may provide funds to any state agency to construct a pollution abatement facility pursuant to sections 22a-430 to 22a-432, inclusive. Such funds shall be…

Sec. 22a-439b. Southeastern Connecticut Water Authority may acquire and operate sewerage systems. (a) The Southeastern Connecticut Water Authority may acquire and operate sewerage systems, provided that the service area of the sewerage system to be acquired is generally congruent…

Sec. 22a-440. (Formerly Sec. 25-54s). Grants for storm and sanitary sewer separation programs, pollution abatement facilities. The commissioner may provide a grant to a municipality for the cost of those facilities which he determines to be essential to a storm and sanitary sewer…

Sec. 22a-441. (Formerly Sec. 25-54t). Grants for prior construction. The commission shall make a grant to any municipality which, prior to May 1, 1967, constructed, rebuilt, acquired or expanded a pollution abatement facility, which grant shall be thirty per cent of the principal…

Sec. 22a-442. (Formerly Sec. 25-54u). State advances in anticipation of federal funds for construction of facility. If federal funds are not available to the municipality at the time of its scheduled construction of a pollution abatement facility, the commissioner shall advance t…

Sec. 22a-443. (Formerly Sec. 25-54v). State advance in anticipation of federal funds for contract plans and specifications. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of section 22a-439, if federal funds for contract plans and specifications for the construction of a pollutio…

Sec. 22a-444. (Formerly Sec. 25-54x). Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to administer funds. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection is designated as the officer of the state to manage, administer and control funds appropriated by the General Ass…

Sec. 22a-445. (Formerly Sec. 25-54y). Commissioner to accept federal aid. Cooperation with other agencies, municipalities, states. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection is designated as the administrative agency of the state to apply for and accept any funds or …

Sec. 22a-446. (Formerly Sec. 25-54z). Bond issue. (a) The State Bond Commission is empowered to authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding three hundred ninety-eight million dollars. The proceeds of the sale o…

Sec. 22a-446a. Uniform tipping fee at facilities disposing of septic tank pumpings. Any municipality operating a water pollution abatement facility which receives or received funds pursuant to section 22a-439 and which disposes of septic tank pumpings shall establish a uniform ti…

Sec. 22a-447. (Formerly Sec. 25-54aa). Prior orders, directives and decisions continued in force. All orders, directives or decisions of the Water Resources Commission in existence on October 1, 1971, shall continue in force until rescinded, amended or repealed by the commissione…

Sec. 22a-448. (Formerly Sec. 25-54bb). Pollution by chemical liquid, hazardous waste, oil or petroleum, waste oil or solid, liquid or gaseous products: Definitions. For the purposes of sections 22a-133a to 22a-133j, inclusive, sections 22a-448 to 22a-454, inclusive, and section 2…

Sec. 22a-449. (Formerly Sec. 25-54cc). Duties and powers of commissioner re sources of potential pollution or damage. Licenses. Regulations. Nonresidential underground storage tank systems. (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall, to the extent possible,…

Sec. 22a-449a. Definitions. As used in this section and sections 22a-449c to 22a-449m, inclusive, 22a-449p and 22a-449r to 22a-449t, inclusive: (1) “Petroleum” means crude oil, crude oil fractions and refined petroleum fractions, including gasoline, kerosene, heating oils and die…

Sec. 22a-449b. Portion of petroleum products gross earnings tax credited to underground storage tank petroleum clean-up account. Section 22a-449b is repealed, effective October 1, 2009. (P.A. 89-373, S. 3, 10; P.A. 92-62, S. 1, 2; P.A. 94-130, S. 5; P.A. 02-80, S. 2; June Sp. Ses…

Sec. 22a-449c. Underground storage tank petroleum clean-up program. Applications for payment or reimbursement. (a)(1) There is established an underground storage tank petroleum clean-up program administered by the commissioner. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protectio…

Sec. 22a-449d. Payment and reimbursement from the program. Guidelines for reasonable cost determinations. Payment to registered contractors. (a) Upon application for reimbursement or payment pursuant to section 22a-449f, the commissioner shall determine, based on the provisions o…

Sec. 22a-449e. Regulations. Schedule for maximum or range of amounts to be paid from the program. Use of seal. (a) The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 setting forth procedures for reimbursement and payment from the program esta…

Sec. 22a-449f. Application for reimbursement for claims resulting from release of petroleum. (a) Application. Notice of claim. A responsible party may apply to the commissioner for reimbursement for costs paid and payment of costs incurred as a result of a release, or a suspected…

Sec. 22a-449g. Appeals. Any person aggrieved by a decision of the commissioner after a hearing pursuant to subsection (h) of section 22a-449f may appeal from such decision to the superior court for the judicial district of New Britain within twenty days after the issuance of such…

Sec. 22a-449h. Extension of time to replace school underground storage tank systems. Notwithstanding the provisions of regulations adopted by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection under subsection (d) of section 22a-449, (1) a town, regional school district or i…

Sec. 22a-449i. Authority of commissioners unaffected. Nothing in sections 22a-449a to 22a-449h, inclusive, shall affect the authority of the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection or the Commissioner of Public Health under any other statute or regulation, including, …