Title 22a — Title 22a: Environmental Protection

Sec. 22a-370. Notice to town re application. Section 22a-370 is repealed, effective October 1, 2013. (P.A. 82-402, S. 6, 16; P.A. 93-428, S. 11, 39; P.A. 13-209, S. 20.)

Sec. 22a-371. Request for additional information. Notice of completed application. Notice of hearing. Waiver of hearing. (a) Within one hundred eighty days of receipt of an application for a permit, the commissioner shall determine if there is any additional information that he d…

Sec. 22a-372. Commencement of hearing. Application and documents available for public inspection. Parties to proceedings. Regulations. Fees. (a) The commissioner or the commissioner's designated hearing officer shall commence a hearing on the application at the time, date and loc…

Sec. 22a-373. Decision. (a) The commissioner shall, not later than one hundred twenty days after the close of the hearing, make a decision either granting or denying the application as deemed complete in section 22a-371, or granting the application upon such terms, limitations or…

Sec. 22a-374. Appeals. Any person or municipality aggrieved by the decision of the commissioner made pursuant to section 22a-373 may appeal to the Superior Court pursuant to the provisions of section 4-183, except that the appeal shall be instituted by filing a petition in the su…

Sec. 22a-375. Investigation, suspension or revocation of permits. Inventory of diversions. (a) The commissioner may periodically investigate and review those diversions which are taking place pursuant to a permit issued in accordance with sections 22a-365 to 22a-378, inclusive. I…

Sec. 22a-376. Injunctions. Forfeiture. Penalties. (a) If any person or municipality violates any provision of sections 22a-365 to 22a-378, inclusive, or regulations issued in accordance with the provisions of said sections and chapter 54, the commissioner may request the Attorney…

Sec. 22a-377. Exemptions. Regulations. (a) The following diversions are exempt from the provisions of sections 22a-365 to 22a-378a, inclusive: (1) One or more wells joined in one system whose combined maximum withdrawal will not exceed fifty thousand gallons of water during any t…

Sec. 22a-378. Water supply emergency. Violation of water supply emergency order. (a) If a water supply emergency has been declared by the Governor or otherwise according to law, the commissioner shall have the power to: (1) Temporarily suspend a permit for diversion or impose con…

Sec. 22a-378a. 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-365 to 22a-378, inclusive, except for any activity covered by an individual…

Sec. 22a-379. Diversion permit. Fee. Each person or municipality holding a diversion permit authorizing a consumptive use of waters of the state shall pay an annual fee of nine hundred forty dollars to the commissioner. The commissioner may adopt regulations, in accordance with t…

Sec. 22a-380. Water resources policy. The following are declared to be the goals and policies of the state: (1) To preserve and protect water supply watershed lands and prevent degradation of surface water and groundwaters; (2) to protect groundwater recharge areas critical to ex…

Sec. 22a-381. Invasive Plants Council: Membership; meetings. (a) There shall be an Invasive Plants Council which shall consist of the following members: (1) The Commissioner of Agriculture, or the commissioner's designee; (2) the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protectio…

Sec. 22a-381a. Duties and recommendations of the Invasive Plants Council. (a) The Invasive Plants Council shall: (1) Develop and conduct a program to educate the general public and merchants and consumers of aquatic and land-based plants as to the problems associated with invasiv…

Sec. 22a-381b. Listing of invasive and potentially invasive plants by council. Criteria for listing. Approval by majority of council's membership. (a) In publishing and updating the list of invasive plants required under section 22a-381a, the Invasive Plants Council shall determi…

Sec. 22a-381c. Prohibition on purchase of invasive or potentially invasive plants by state agencies. No state agency, department or institution shall purchase any plant listed as invasive or potentially invasive pursuant to section 22a-381b, provided nothing in this section shall…

Sec. 22a-381d. Prohibited actions re certain invasive plants. Exceptions. Municipal ordinances prohibited. Penalty. (a) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section and notwithstanding the provisions of any ordinance adopted by a municipality, no person shall import, move…

Sec. 22a-381e. Prohibited actions re running bamboo. Disclosure statement. Penalties. Enforcement. Running bamboo as nuisance. (a) For the purpose of this section, “running bamboo” means any bamboo in the genus Phyllostachys, including Phyllostachys aureosulcata. (b) No person wh…

Sec. 22a-382. Reserved for future use. PART II REMOVAL OF SAND AND GRAVEL

Secs. 22a-383 to 22a-390. (Formerly Secs. 25-10 to 25-12, 25-14 to 25-18). Removal of sand and gravel from lands under tidal and coastal waters. Sections 22a-383 to 22a-390, inclusive, are repealed. (1957, P.A. 554, S. 1–3, 5–9; March, 1958, P.A. 14, S. 1; 1961, P.A. 273, S. 3; 1…

Secs. 22a-391 to 22a-400. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 22a-401. (Formerly Sec. 25-110). Powers and duties of commissioner. All dams, dikes, reservoirs and other similar structures, with their appurtenances, without exception and without further definition or enumeration herein, which, by breaking away or otherwise, might endange…

Sec. 22a-402. (Formerly Sec. 25-111). Inspection of dams and other structures. Repair or removal. Notification to owner. Inspection by municipal chief elected official. Inspection of hydroelectric power generating facility owned by a water company. Water company notification. Ins…

Sec. 22a-403. (Formerly Sec. 25-112). Permits for construction. Notice and requirements for hearing. (a) Before any person constructs, alters, rebuilds, substantially repairs, adds to, replaces or removes any such structure, such person shall apply to the commissioner for a permi…

Sec. 22a-404. (Formerly Sec. 25-113). Inspection of work on dams. Filing of plans and data. Engineer's statement. The dam owner or his or her representative supervising the work on any dam or other like structure subject to the commissioner's jurisdiction pursuant to this chapter…

Sec. 22a-405. (Formerly Sec. 25-114). Certificate of approval. When an existing structure is found by the commissioner to be safe, or has been made safe pursuant to an order of the commissioner, or a new structure has been constructed to the satisfaction of the commissioner under…

Sec. 22a-406. (Formerly Sec. 25-115). Liability of owner or operator. Nothing in this chapter, and no order, approval or advice of the commissioner, shall relieve any owner or operator of such a structure from his legal duties, obligations and liabilities resulting from such owne…

Sec. 22a-407. (Formerly Sec. 25-116). Violations. Penalty. Injunctions. Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, any order or permit issued by the commissioner pursuant to this chapter shall forfeit to the state a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, to be fixed …

Sec. 22a-408. (Formerly Sec. 25-117). Appeal. Upon written request, any person aggrieved by any decision of the commissioner under this chapter, other than a decision under section 22a-403, shall be given a hearing by the commissioner. Any person aggrieved by any decision or orde…

Sec. 22a-409. (Formerly Sec. 25-118). Survey and maps. Owners recording on land records. Standardized form. Registration of dams and similar structures. Inspection of dams by owner or commissioner. Notice for inspection. (a) The commissioner shall cause a survey and maps to be ma…

Sec. 22a-410. (Formerly Sec. 25-119). Chapter not to limit power of other authority. This chapter shall not be construed to prevent any other state authority from carrying out its legal duties. (1949 Rev., S. 4737.) History: Sec. 25-119 transferred to Sec. 22a-410 in 1983.

Sec. 22a-411. General permits for minor activities. Procedures. Individual permits. Notice. Regulations. (a) The commissioner may issue a general permit for any minor activity regulated under sections 22a-401 to 22a-410, inclusive, except for any activity covered by an individual…

Sec. 22a-411a. Emergency action plan for high or significant hazard dam. Regulations. After the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection's adoption of regulations pursuant to this section, the owner of any high or significant hazard dam or similar structure shall devel…

Secs. 22a-412 to 22a-415. Reserved for future use.

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.)