2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 22a - Environmental Protection
Chapter 445 - Hazardous Waste
Section 22a-134o - *(See end of section for amended version of subsection (a) and effective date.) Contract with hazardous waste transporter or company.

*(a) Any municipality, any group of municipalities, any regional planning agency organized under the provisions of chapter 127, any regional council of elected officials organized under the provisions of chapter 50, or any regional council of government organized under the provisions of sections 4-124i to 4-124p, inclusive, sponsoring a chemical disposal day shall enter into a contract with a hazardous waste transporter or waste collection company licensed under section 22a-454 to dispose of the hazardous waste collected during a chemical disposal day. Such contract shall (1) make the transporter or company, upon receipt of hazardous waste, liable for any violation of a federal or state statute concerning the generation, transportation or disposal of hazardous waste, (2) identify the transporter or company as the generator of hazardous waste collected and (3) make the transporter or company responsible for providing material and equipment for handling, labeling, loading and transporting hazardous waste.

(b) Any transporter or company may participate in a chemical disposal day program provided such transporter or company has (1) a number issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency identifying such transporter or company as the generator for the day and (2) at least one trained employee or agent is at the site on the chemical disposal day to identify, accept, place in containers, load and remove any waste collected.

(P.A. 86-298, S. 3, 6.)

*Note: On and after January 1, 2015, subsection (a) of this section, as amended by section 298 of public act 13-247, is to read as follows:

“(a) Any municipality, any group of municipalities or any regional council of governments organized under the provisions of sections 4-124i to 4-124p, inclusive, sponsoring a chemical disposal day shall enter into a contract with a hazardous waste transporter or waste collection company licensed under section 22a-454 to dispose of the hazardous waste collected during a chemical disposal day. Such contract shall (1) make the transporter or company, upon receipt of hazardous waste, liable for any violation of a federal or state statute concerning the generation, transportation or disposal of hazardous waste, (2) identify the transporter or company as the generator of hazardous waste collected and (3) make the transporter or company responsible for providing material and equipment for handling, labeling, loading and transporting hazardous waste.”

(P.A. 86-298, S. 3, 6; P.A. 13-247, S. 298.)

History: P.A. 13-247 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting references to regional planning agency and regional council of elected officials and changing “government” to “governments”, effective January 1, 2015.