2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 22a - Environmental Protection
Chapter 446e - Solid Waste Management Services Act
Section 22a-285e - Application to initiate negotiation process. Municipal negotiating committee. Grants for review of proposed ash residue disposal area.

(a) The authority shall, within ten days of filing an application with the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection for a permit under section 22a-208a for an ash residue disposal area established under section 22a-285a, file an application with the council to initiate the process of negotiating an agreement with municipalities that received a notice under section 22a-285b or of obtaining an arbitration award in accordance with section 22a-285g. The chief elected official of each municipality that received a notice pursuant to section 22a-285b may appoint members to a negotiating committee to serve at his pleasure. The municipality in which the ash residue disposal area is located may appoint five members and not more than two alternates to the committee. If part of the ash residue disposal area is to be located in two or more municipalities, each such municipality may appoint four members and not more than two alternates to the committee. Each municipality within one thousand feet of the boundary of the ash residue disposal area may appoint three members and not more than one alternate to the committee. If more than one municipality is within one thousand feet of such boundary and the total number of committee members from such municipalities exceeds the number of members from each municipality in which the ash residue disposal area is to be located, then each municipality in which the ash residue disposal area is to be located may appoint additional members so that the membership from each municipality in which the ash residue disposal area is to be located equals or exceeds, by not more than one member, the membership of all other municipalities. A vacancy may be filled by the chief elected official of the municipality represented by the member leaving the committee.

(b) Upon filing of an application with the council, the authority shall deposit with the council the sum of fifty thousand dollars for costs incurred for legal and technical assistance for the committee’s review of the proposed ash residue disposal area. No committee shall receive an amount greater than its actual expenses.

(P.A. 89-384, S. 7, 15; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011.