Title 22a — Title 22a: Environmental Protection

Sec. 22a-6k. Emergency authorization for regulated activity. Temporary authorization for regulated activity. (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may issue an emergency authorization for any activity regulated by the commissioner under section 22a-32, subse…

Sec. 22a-6l. Posting of public notice of permit applications. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may require any applicant for a permit issued by the commissioner pursuant to any provision of this title to provide notice of such permit application by posting …

Sec. 22a-6m. Compliance history of permit applicants. Criminal history records checks. (a) In exercising any authority to issue, renew, transfer, modify or revoke any permit, registration, certificate or other license under any of the provisions of this title, the Commissioner of…

Sec. 22a-6n. Notice of commissioner's determination regarding certain regulated activities. Notwithstanding any provision of this title or regulations adopted hereunder, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall not be required to publish notice of any final d…

Sec. 22a-6o. Transfer of licenses. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this title or regulations adopted thereunder, no person shall act or purport to act under the authority of a license issued to another unless such license has been transferred to such person in accordance wit…

Sec. 22a-6p. Time frames for issuance of permits. Regulations. (a) Not later than seven days from June 9, 2010, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall commence a review of the existing time frames for the review of all individual permits issued by the depar…

Sec. 22a-6q. Alternative time frame for action on permit. When the commissioner determines, based on the size, novelty, complexity or technical difficulty of a project, that work cannot be completed within the schedule for timely action applicable to a permit application pursuant…

Sec. 22a-6r. Report on permitting efforts and violations investigated by the department's environmental quality division. On or before July 1, 1997, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the Governor and the joint standing committees of the General Assembly ha…

Sec. 22a-6s. Minor violations of environmental protection laws. (a) As used in this section, “minor violation” means a violation of any of the provisions of chapters 440, 441, 444, 445, 446a, 446c, 446d, 446i, 446j and 446k but does not mean any such violation which the Commissio…

Sec. 22a-6t. Annual report on environmental compliance by regulated entities and enforcement actions of the commissioner. Section 22a-6t is repealed, effective October 1, 2001. (P.A. 97-314, S. 4; P.A. 99-225, S. 28, 33; P.A. 01-204, S. 28; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-9, S. 73, 131.)

Sec. 22a-6u. Notification requirements re discovery of contamination of soil or water. Exceptions. Content of notice. Drinking water supply well sampling. Acknowledgment of receipt. Posting of notice. Civil penalty. Forwarding of notice. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) …

Sec. 22a-6v. Report on protected open space acquisition. On or before the tenth day of each month, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall submit a report to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to financ…

Sec. 22a-6w. Notice to municipality of commissioner's enforcement action. Prior to, or concurrent with, taking any enforcement action under this title or any action to recover any civil penalty imposed under this title, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shal…

Sec. 22a-6x. Office of Enforcement Policy and Coordination. There is established within the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection the Office of Enforcement Policy and Coordination. Said office shall coordinate policy regarding enforcement of environmental protection l…

Sec. 22a-6y. Exemplary environmental management systems. (a) Any business required to obtain a permit or other approval from the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to operate in this state may apply to the commissioner for the benefits of the program established …

Sec. 22a-6z. Regulations implementing Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976. The regulations promulgated by the federal Environmental Protection Agency as of January 1, 2001, that implement Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 197…

Sec. 22a-7. Cease and desist orders. Service. Hearings. Injunctions. (a) The commissioner, whenever he finds after investigation that any person is causing, engaging in or maintaining, or is about to cause, engage in or maintain, any condition or activity which, in his judgment, …

Sec. 22a-7a. Bond on appeal from final decision. In any appeal from a final decision made by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection in accordance with the provisions of sections 22a-123, 22a-174, 22a-181, 22a-428, 22a-430 and 22a-431, subsection (c) of section 22…

Sec. 22a-7b. Certificate showing compliance with order to correct or abate a polluted or environmentally hazardous condition. Whenever the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection has filed a copy of an order to correct or abate a polluted or environmentally hazardous …

Sec. 22a-8. State-wide environmental plan. Advisory board. Annual conference. (a) The commissioner shall formulate and from time to time revise a state-wide environmental plan for the management and protection of the quality of the environment and the natural resources of the sta…

Sec. 22a-8a. Commissioner to inventory hazardous waste disposal sites. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall compile an inventory of any sites in this state which have been used for toxic or hazardous waste disposal, and the types and amounts of such waste…

Sec. 22a-9. Commissioner as agent of state and political subdivisions. The commissioner shall act as the official agent of the state in all matters affecting the purposes of this title and sections 2-20a, 5-238a, subsection (c) of section 7-131a, sections 7-131e, 7-131f, subsecti…

Sec. 22a-28. (Formerly Sec. 22-7h). Preservation of tidal wetlands. Declaration of policy. It is declared that much of the wetlands of this state has been lost or despoiled by unregulated dredging, dumping, filling and like activities and that the remaining wetlands of this state…

Sec. 22a-29. (Formerly Sec. 22-7i). Definitions. The following words and phrases, as used in sections 22a-28 to 22a-35, inclusive, shall have the following meanings: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection; (2) “Wetland” means those areas …

Sec. 22a-30. (Formerly Sec. 22-7j). Entry on public or private property to carry out wetlands and watercourses responsibilities. Regulations. (a) The commissioner or his authorized representative shall have the right to enter upon any public or private property at reasonable time…

Sec. 22a-31. (Formerly Sec. 22-7k). Hearing officers. Section 22a-31 is repealed, effective October 1, 2013. (1969, P.A. 695, S. 4; P.A. 13-209, S. 20.)

Sec. 22a-32. (Formerly Sec. 22-7l). Regulated activity permit. Application. Hearing. Waiver of hearing. Exception. (a) No regulated activity shall be conducted upon any wetland without a permit. Any person proposing to conduct or cause to be conducted a regulated activity upon an…

Sec. 22a-33. (Formerly Sec. 22-7m). Issuance or denial of permit. In granting, denying or limiting any permit, the commissioner or his duly designated hearing officer shall consider the effect of the proposed work with reference to the public health and welfare, marine fisheries,…

Sec. 22a-34. (Formerly Sec. 22-7n). Appeal. (a) An appeal may be taken by the applicant or any person or corporation, municipal corporation or interested community group other than the applicant who has been aggrieved by such order from the denial, suspension or revocation of a p…

Sec. 22a-35. (Formerly Sec. 22-7o). Penalty. Any person who knowingly violates any provision of sections 22a-28 to 22a-35, inclusive, shall be liable to the state for the cost of restoration of the affected wetland to its condition prior to such violation insofar as that is possi…

Sec. 22a-35a. Tidal wetlands restoration. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, within available appropriations and bond authorizations, shall conduct wetlands restoration and enhancement projects, including but not limited to, open water marsh management and c…

Sec. 22a-36. Inland wetlands and watercourses. Legislative finding. The inland wetlands and watercourses of the state of Connecticut are an indispensable and irreplaceable but fragile natural resource with which the citizens of the state have been endowed. The wetlands and waterc…

Sec. 22a-37. Short title: Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Act. Sections 22a-36 to 22a-45, inclusive, shall be known and may be cited as the “Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Act”. (1972, P.A. 155, S. 2.) Cited. 179 C. 250; 180 C. 421; Id., 692; 183 C. 532; 186 C. 67; 192 C. 247;…

Sec. 22a-38. Definitions. As used in sections 22a-36 to 22a-45a, inclusive: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection; (2) “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, company, organizati…

Sec. 22a-39. Duties of commissioner. The commissioner shall: (a) Exercise general supervision of the administration and enforcement of sections 22a-36 to 22a-45, inclusive; (b) Develop comprehensive programs in furtherance of the purposes of said sections; (c) Advise, consult and…

Sec. 22a-40. Permitted operations and uses. (a) The following operations and uses shall be permitted in wetlands and watercourses, as of right: (1) Grazing, farming, nurseries, gardening and harvesting of crops and farm ponds of three acres or less essential to the farming operat…

Sec. 22a-41. Factors for consideration of commissioner. Finding of no feasible and prudent alternative. Wetlands or watercourses. Habitats. Jurisdiction of municipal inland wetlands agencies. (a) In carrying out the purposes and policies of sections 22a-36 to 22a-45a, inclusive, …

Sec. 22a-42. Municipal regulation of wetlands and watercourses. Action by commissioner. (a) To carry out and effectuate the purposes and policies of sections 22a-36 to 22a-45a, inclusive, it is hereby declared to be the public policy of the state to require municipal regulation o…

Sec. 22a-42a. Establishment of boundaries by regulation. Adoption of regulations. Permits. Filing fee. (a) The inland wetlands agencies authorized in section 22a-42 shall through regulation provide for (1) the manner in which the boundaries of inland wetland and watercourse areas…

Secs. 22a-42b and 22a-42c. Notice to adjoining municipalities when traffic, sewer or water drainage and water runoff will affect such municipalities. Notice of application to adjacent municipality re conduct of regulated activities within five hundred feet of its boundaries. Sect…

Sec. 22a-42d. Revocation of authority to regulate inland wetlands. (a) The commissioner may revoke the authority of a municipality to regulate inland wetlands pursuant to section 22a-42 upon determination after a hearing that such municipality has, over a period of time, consiste…

Sec. 22a-42e. Application filed prior to change in inland wetlands regulations not required to comply with change. Exceptions. An application filed with an inland wetlands agency which is in conformance with the applicable inland wetlands regulations as of the date of the receipt…

Sec. 22a-42f. Notice of application to water company and Department of Public Health re conduct of regulated activities within watershed of water company. When an application is filed to conduct or cause to be conducted a regulated activity upon an inland wetland or watercourse, …

Sec. 22a-42g. Municipal fine for violation of wetlands regulations. (a) Any municipality may establish, by ordinance, a fine for violations of regulations adopted pursuant to section 22a-42 provided the amount of any such fine shall be not more than one thousand dollars and furth…

Sec. 22a-43. Appeals. (a) The commissioner or any person aggrieved by any regulation, order, decision or action made pursuant to sections 22a-36 to 22a-45, inclusive, by the commissioner, a district or municipality or any person owning or occupying land which abuts any portion of…

Sec. 22a-43a. Findings on appeal. Setting aside, modifying or remanding action. Authority to purchase land. (a) The court, after a hearing, may reverse or affirm, wholly or partly, or may revise, modify or remand the decision from which the appeal was taken in a manner consistent…

Sec. 22a-44. Penalty. Court orders. (a) If the inland wetlands agency or its duly authorized agent finds that any person is conducting or maintaining any activity, facility or condition which is in violation of sections 22a-36 to 22a-45, inclusive, or of the regulations of the in…

Sec. 22a-45. Property revaluation. Any owner of wetlands and watercourses who may be denied a license in connection with a regulated activity affecting such wetlands and watercourses, shall upon written application to the assessor, or board of assessors, of the municipality, be e…

Sec. 22a-45a. General permits for minor activities. Regulations. (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may issue a general permit for any minor activity regulated under sections 22a-36 to 22a-45, inclusive, except for any activity covered by an individual pe…

Sec. 22a-45b. (Formerly Sec. 19a-93). Elimination of mosquito-breeding places by Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. Survey of certain lands. Standing water on private property. Public outreach programs. (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection…