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      Sec. 22a-262. (Formerly Sec. 19-524u). Purposes of authority. (a) The purposes of the authority shall be:

      (1) The planning, design, construction, financing, management, ownership, operation and maintenance of solid waste disposal, volume reduction, recycling, intermediate processing and resources recovery facilities and all related solid waste reception, storage, transportation and waste-handling and general support facilities considered by the authority to be necessary, desirable, convenient or appropriate in carrying out the provisions of the state solid waste management plan and in establishing, managing and operating solid waste disposal and resources recovery systems and their component waste-processing facilities and equipment;

      (2) The provision of solid waste management services to municipalities, regions and persons within the state by receiving solid wastes at authority facilities, pursuant to contracts between the authority and such municipalities, regions and persons; the recovery of resources and resource values from such solid wastes; and the production from such services and resources recovery operations of revenues sufficient to provide for the support of the authority and its operations on a self-sustaining basis, with due allowance for the redistribution of any surplus revenues to reduce the costs of authority services to the users thereof provided such surplus revenues shall include any net revenue from activities undertaken pursuant to subdivisions (18) and (19) of subsection (a) of section 22a-266 and subdivision (8) of section 22a-267;

      (3) The utilization, through contractual arrangements, of private industry for implementation of some or all of the requirements of the state solid waste management plan and for such other activities as may be considered necessary, desirable or convenient by the authority;

      (4) Assistance with and coordination of efforts directed toward source separation for recycling purposes; and

      (5) Assistance in the development of industries, technologies and commercial enterprises within the state of Connecticut based upon resources recovery, recycling, reuse and treatment or processing of solid waste.

      (b) These purposes shall be considered to be operating responsibilities of the authority, in accordance with the state solid waste management plan, and are to be considered in all respects public purposes. It is the intention of this chapter that the authority shall be granted all powers necessary to fulfill these purposes and to carry out its assigned responsibilities and that the provisions of this chapter, itself, are to be construed liberally in furtherance of this intention.

      (P.A. 73-459, S. 6, 26; P.A. 90-179, S. 2, 9; P.A. 98-184, S. 1, 4.)

      History: Sec. 19-524u transferred to Sec. 22a-262 in 1983; P.A. 90-179 amended Subdiv. (1) to include recycling and intermediate processing facilities as facilities which may be provided for by the authority; P.A. 98-184 divided existing section into Subsecs. (a) and (b), amended Subsec. (a)(2) to require that surplus revenues include net revenue from activities undertaken pursuant to Secs. 22a-266(a)(18), (a)(19) and 22a-267(8), and amended Subsec. (a)(5) by inserting "technologies" and "and treatment or processing of solid waste", effective June 4, 1998.

      Cited. 193 C. 506, 518. Cited. 218 C. 821, 822. Cited. 225 C. 731, 736.