Title 22a — Title 22a: Environmental Protection

Sec. 22a-270. (Formerly Sec. 19-524cc). (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Tax exemption of authority, lessees and operators. Assessment and taxation of certain leased authority property. (a) The exercise of the powers granted by this chapter constitute the…

Sec. 22a-270a. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.)Lessee under MIRA Dissolution Authority project not liable for taxes on property leased from authority if payments in lieu of taxes are made per agreement. Any real or personal property leased by the MIRA Dis…

Sec. 22a-271. (Formerly Sec. 19-524dd). (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Bonds, legal investments. Bonds issued by the authority under the provisions of this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the state an…

Sec. 22a-272. (Formerly Sec. 19-524ee). (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Mandatory sinking fund for authority bonds; special capital reserve funds; General Fund appropriations. Purchase of financial guarantees. (a) Bonds or notes of the authority issued u…

Sec. 22a-272a. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Limit on use of bond proceeds for funding intermediate processing facilities. Not less than twenty-five million dollars of the next two hundred million dollars of bonds issued by the MIRA Dissolution Authori…

Sec. 22a-273. (Formerly Sec. 19-524ff). (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Moneys of the authority. The reserve funds of the authority, as provided for in section 22a-272, shall be paid to the Treasurer of the state as agent of the authority, who shall not …

Sec. 22a-274. (Formerly Sec. 19-524gg). (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Pledge to holders of bonds and notes of the authority. The state of Connecticut does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of any bonds and notes issued under this chapter and …

Sec. 22a-275. (Formerly Sec. 19-524hh). (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Municipal and regional authorities. (a) The authority shall have the power to purchase, in accordance with the requirements of the state-wide solid waste management plan, at such cos…

Sec. 22a-276. (Formerly Sec. 19-524ii). (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Condemnation by authority. (a) Before instituting any condemnation proceedings to obtain necessary real property, the authority shall have made diligent efforts to obtain said proper…

Sec. 22a-277. (Formerly Sec. 19-524jj). (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Delegation of powers of authority. (a) The directors of the authority may, by resolution, delegate to the president of the authority, as its chief executive officer, such powers of t…

Sec. 22a-278. (Formerly Sec. 19-524kk). (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Bonding of personnel. Each director of the authority shall execute a surety bond in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or, in lieu thereof, the chairman of the authority shall execut…

Sec. 22a-279. (Formerly Sec. 19-524ll). Connecticut Solid Waste Management Advisory Council. Section 22a-279 is repealed. (P.A. 73-459, S. 23, 26; P.A. 74-330, S. 3, 4; P.A. 83-487, S. 29, 33; 83-587, S. 75, 96; P.A. 84-546, S. 74, 183; P.A. 93-423, S. 7.)

Sec. 22a-280. (Formerly Sec. 19-524mm). (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Liberal construction of chapter. This chapter, being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed, so as to effect its purposes. (P.A. 73-…

Sec. 22a-281. (Formerly Sec. 19-524nn). Pilot project required. Section 22a-281 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 73-459, S. 25, 26; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 22a-282. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Solid waste disposal area. Payments to municipalities. The MIRA Dissolution Authority, notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of section 22a-208a concerning the right of any local body to regulate, …

Sec. 22a-283. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Disposal of waste from municipal or private waste-to-energy plant. The MIRA Dissolution Authority shall accept for disposal in any landfill owned by the authority the residue from any municipal or private was…

Sec. 22a-284. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) Agreement for administration of waste management project. The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to limit any municipality or any two or more municipalities from entering into an agreement with…

Sec. 22a-284a. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) MIRA Dissolution Authority. Established. (a) There is established the MIRA Dissolution Authority. The MIRA Dissolution Authority shall constitute a successor authority to the Materials Innovation and Recycli…

Sec. 22a-284b. (Note: This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2025.) MIRA Dissolution Authority. Additional duties. Report. Memoranda of understanding. (a) In addition to the purposes, powers and responsibilities vested in the MIRA Dissolution Authority pursuant to this chapt…

Sec. 22a-284c. MIRA Dissolution Authority. Liabilities. Effect of conveyances. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the provisions of sections 22a-261, 22a-262, 22a-284a to 22a-284e, inclusive, and section 12 of public act 23-170* shall not be construed to m…

Sec. 22a-284d. MIRA Dissolution Authority. Funds. Environmental remediation costs. Tipping fee stabilization reimbursement and limit. The funds possessed by the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority, established pursuant to section 22a-260a, shall not constitute surplus re…

Sec. 22a-284e. (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2025.) Department of Administrative Services as successor to MIRA Dissolution Authority. The Department of Administrative Services shall constitute a successor agency to the MIRA Dissolution Authority in accordance with the …

Secs. 22a-285 to 22a-285k. Definitions. Establishment of ash residue disposal area. Application for permit for ash residue disposal area. Operation of ash residue disposal area exempt from local zoning; additional information required for permit. Negotiated agreement, arbitration…

Secs. 22a-286 to 22a-292. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 22a-293. (Formerly Sec. 25-55). Tri-state compact. The agreement or compact, in the words and form set forth in section 22a-294, entered into by the state of Connecticut with the state of New Jersey and the state of New York, signed and sealed by the commissioners of each st…

Sec. 22a-294. (Formerly Sec. 25-56). Interstate Environmental Commission Tri-State Compact. Whereas, The tremendous growth of population and the development of the territory surrounding and adjacent to the harbor of New York has resulted in recent years in an increasingly serious…

Sec. 22a-295. (Formerly Sec. 25-57). Commissioners; appointment; term; expenses. On or before July first in the odd-numbered years, the Governor shall appoint a commissioner to the Interstate Environmental Commission created by the agreement or compact entered into under the laws…

Sec. 22a-296. (Formerly Sec. 25-58). Officers. Votes. The commission shall elect from its number a chairman and vice chairman and shall appoint and at its pleasure remove or discharge such officers and legal, clerical, expert and other assistants as may be required in the dischar…

Sec. 22a-297. (Formerly Sec. 25-59). Regulations and orders. The commission shall have power to make regulations and orders with regard to the pollution of all the coastal, estuarial and tidal waters within or covering portions of the signatory states as follows: (a) In Connectic…

Sec. 22a-298. (Formerly Sec. 25-60). Enforcement. Investigations. Hearings. The commission shall have power to investigate and determine if the requirements of the compact or the orders of the commission are complied with and to bring action in its name to compel the enforcement …

Sec. 22a-299. (Formerly Sec. 25-61). Powers to be supplemental. Any powers herein granted to the Interstate Environmental Commission shall be regarded as in aid of and supplemental to and in no case a limitation upon any of the powers vested in said commission by the states of Ne…

Sec. 22a-300. (Formerly Sec. 25-62). Notice of pollution. Public hearing. Orders. Whenever the commission determines upon investigation that sewage or other polluting matter from any city, village, town, county, borough, municipality or other entity, as defined in the compact, bu…

Sec. 22a-301. (Formerly Sec. 25-63). Cooperation with other authorities. The commission may prepare a general plan of the most practicable and economical method of securing conformity with the standards set forth in the compact, having in view the future growth and development of…

Sec. 22a-302. (Formerly Sec. 25-64). Accounts. Reports. The commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements and shall report to the governor and the legislature of each signatory state, on or before the twenty-fifth day of January, setting forth in detai…

Sec. 22a-303. (Formerly Sec. 25-65). State comptrollers authorized to examine accounts. The comptroller of each of the signatory states is authorized from time to time to examine the accounts and books of the commission, including its receipts, disbursements and such other items …

Sec. 22a-304. (Formerly Sec. 25-66). Study of smoke and air pollution. (a) Subject to approval by the Congress of the United States, the Interstate Environmental Commission is authorized and empowered to make a study of smoke and air pollution within the boundaries of New Jersey …

Sec. 22a-305. (Formerly Sec. 25-66a). Powers and duties re air pollution. With respect to the state of Connecticut and as long as the Interstate Environmental Commission shall be engaged in a program relating to air pollution on behalf of the state of New York or the states of Ne…

Secs. 22a-306 and 22a-307. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 22a-308. (Formerly Sec. 25-67). Appointment of commissioners. There shall be three commissioners to the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, appointed as herein provided. The Commissioner of Public Health and the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental…

Sec. 22a-309. (Formerly Sec. 25-68). New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Compact. Whereas, The growth of population and the development of the territory of the New England states has resulted in serious pollution of certain interstate streams, ponds and lakes, and of t…

Sec. 22a-310. (Formerly Sec. 25-68a). Jurisdiction. For the purposes of section 22a-309, Article XII, any court of competent jurisdiction shall be construed to be the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford. (1969, P.A. 526, S. 2; P.A. 80-483, S. 164, 186; P.A. 88-23…

Secs. 22a-311 to 22a-313. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 22a-314. (Formerly Sec. 25-104). General duties of commissioner concerning soil and water erosion. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may (a) make or cause to be made surveys, investigations and research concerning the problems of soil and water erosion …

Sec. 22a-315. (Formerly Sec. 25-104a). Soil and water conservation districts and boards; establishment, powers and council. (a) In order to assist the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection in identifying and remedying the problems of soil and water erosion, the comm…

Sec. 22a-316. (Formerly Sec. 25-105). Soil conservation equipment account. There shall continue to be maintained from the income received in administering section 22a-314, an equipment account, which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the General Fund, for the Commiss…

Sec. 22a-317. (Formerly Sec. 25-105a). State grants to county soil and water conservation districts. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may provide, within available appropriations, an annual grant to each of the eight county soil and water conservation distr…

Sec. 22a-318. (Formerly Sec. 25-106). Watershed soil conservation, flood prevention, conservation programs. Definitions. As used in sections 22a-318 to 22a-322, inclusive, “works of improvement” means any undertaking for: (a) Flood prevention, including structural, nonstructural …

Sec. 22a-319. (Formerly Sec. 25-107). Initiation of watershed area programs. The legislative body of any town or city may vote to request the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection for advice and assistance in initiating a United States Department of Agriculture, Soi…

Sec. 22a-320. (Formerly Sec. 25-108). Acquisition of land. State and federal assistance. Municipal participation. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may (a) acquire, by purchase, lease or gift, or by eminent domain in the manner provided by part I of chapter …

Sec. 22a-321. (Formerly Sec. 25-108a). Reimbursement of public service companies for relocation of facilities. Whenever the construction of any works of improvement, as defined in section 22a-318, for which the state has agreed to provide the necessary land, easements and rights-…