Sec. 22a-349b. Permit program for certain commercial projects involving
quarrying. Program requirements. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental
Protection shall establish a permitting program for any commercial project that involves
quarrying proposed on a parcel of property that consists of one hundred or fewer acres
and that is located in a municipality that has a town meeting form of government and
a population of not less than two thousand and not more than three thousand. Such
permitting program shall require any person who seeks to engage in such commercial
project that involves quarrying to submit to the commissioner any information requested
by the commissioner, including, but not limited to, a statement of the environmental
compatibility of such project with the nature of such property and all neighboring properties. Additionally, any such applicant shall submit a statement to the commissioner
indicating why such parcel of property is the most suitable parcel for such project. Any
person who seeks to engage in such commercial project that involves quarrying shall
obtain a permit from the commissioner prior to commencing any work on such project.
The commissioner shall not grant a permit for any such commercial project that involves
quarrying if the commissioner determines that such project may adversely affect the
quantity or quality of any surface water or groundwater.
(P.A. 11-80, S. 1; 11-190, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 11-190 effective July 13, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, "Commissioner of Environmental Protection"
was changed editorially by the Revisors to "Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection", effective July 1, 2011.
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Sec. 22a-354i. Regulations. (a) On or before July 1, 1991, the Commissioner of
Energy and Environmental Protection shall publish notice of intent to adopt regulations
in accordance with chapter 54 for land use controls in aquifer protection areas. The
regulations shall establish (1) best management practice standards for existing regulated
activities located entirely or in part within aquifer protection areas and a schedule for
compliance of nonconforming regulated activities with such standards, (2) best management practice standards for and prohibitions of regulated activities proposed to be located entirely or in part within aquifer protection areas, (3) procedures for exempting
regulated activities in aquifer protection areas upon determination solely by the commissioner that such regulated activities do not pose a threat to any existing or potential
drinking water supply, and (4) requirements for design and installation of groundwater
monitoring within aquifer protection areas. In addition, the commissioner may adopt
such other regulations as deemed necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 22a-354b, 22a-354c and 22a-354h, this section, sections 22a-354m and 22a-354n, subsection
(e) of section 22a-354p and subsection (d) of section 22a-451, including, but not limited
to, regulations which provide for the manner in which the boundaries of aquifer protection areas shall be established and amended; criteria and procedures for submission and
review of applications to construct or begin regulated activities; procedures for granting,
denying, limiting, revoking, suspending, transferring and modifying permits for regulated activities; controls regarding the expansion of nonconforming regulated activities,
including procedures for offsetting impacts from the expansion or modification of nonconforming regulated activities or procedures for modifying permits of regulated activities by the removal of other potential pollution sources within the subject well field,
procedures for the granting of permits for such expansion or modification based on the
certification of a qualified person that such expansion meets criteria established by the
commissioner; registration requirements for existing regulated activities and procedures
for transferring registrations; procedures for landowners to notify a municipality or the
commissioner of a change in use; and other provisions for administration of the aquifer
protection program.
(b) In adopting such regulations, the commissioner shall consider the guidelines
for aquifer protection areas recommended in the report prepared pursuant to special act
87-63, as amended, and shall avoid duplication and inconsistency with other state or
federal laws and regulations affecting aquifers. The regulations shall be developed in
consultation with an advisory committee appointed by the commissioner. The advisory
committee shall include the Commissioners of Construction Services and Public Health,
or their designees, members of the public, and representatives of businesses affected
by the regulations, agriculture, environmental groups, municipal officers and water companies.
(P.A. 89-305, S. 3, 32; P.A. 90-275, S. 2, 9; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 98-209, S. 9; P.A.
11-51, S. 70; 11-80, S. 1, 62, 68.)
History: P.A. 90-275 amended Subsec. (a) to require publication of the notice of intent on or before July 1, 1991,
and authorized the commissioner to adopt other regulations; P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with
commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and
Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July
1, 1995; P.A. 98-209 amended Subsec. (a) to authorize provision in regulations for procedures for offsetting nonconforming
regulated activities; P.A. 11-51 amended Subsec. (b) to replace "Commissioner of Public Works" with "Commissioner
of Construction Services", effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-80 changed "Commissioner of Environmental Protection" to
"Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection", deleted reference to chairperson of the Public Utilities Control
Authority and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2011.
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Sec. 22a-354m. Farm resources management plans. (a) The Commissioner of
Energy and Environmental Protection may, in accordance with regulations adopted pursuant to subsection (d) of this section, require any person engaged in agriculture on land
located within an aquifer protection area and whose annual gross sales from agricultural
products during the preceding calendar year were two thousand five hundred dollars or
more to submit a farm resources management plan.
(b) The soil and water conservation district where the aquifer protection area is
located shall establish and coordinate a technical team to develop each plan. Such team
shall include a representative of the municipality in which the land is located and a
representative of any affected water company upon request of such municipality or
water company. For the purposes of developing the plan required pursuant to this section,
if a farm is located in two or more soil and water conservation districts, the district in
which the greater part of such farm is located shall be deemed to be the district in
which the entire farm is located. In developing a plan, a district shall consult with the
Commissioners of Energy and Environmental Protection and Agriculture, the College
of Agriculture and Natural Resources at The University of Connecticut, the Connecticut
Agricultural Experiment Station, the Soil Conservation Service, the state Agricultural
and Conservation Committee and any other person or agency the district deems appropriate.
(c) The plan shall include a schedule for implementation and shall be periodically
updated as required by the commissioner. In developing a schedule for implementation,
the technical team shall consider technical and economic factors including, but not
limited to, the availability of state and federal funds. Any person engaged in agriculture
in substantial compliance with a plan approved under this section shall be exempt from
regulations adopted under section 22a-354o by a municipality in which the land is located. No plan shall be required to be submitted to the commissioner before July 1,
1992, or six months after completion of level B mapping where the farm is located,
whichever is later.
(d) On or before July 1, 1999, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental
Protection, in consultation with the Commissioner of Agriculture, the United States Soil
Conservation Service, the Cooperative Extension Service at The University of Connecticut and the Council for Soil and Water Conservation, shall publish notice of intent to
adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 for farm resources management plans.
Such regulations shall include, but not be limited to, a priority system and procedures
for determining if a farm management plan is required and the priority that is assigned
to the preparation of such a plan, best management practices, restrictions and prohibitions for manure management, storage and handling of pesticides, reduced use of pesticides through pest management practices, integrated pest management, fertilizer management and underground and above-ground storage tanks and criteria and procedures
for submission and review of farm resources management plans and amendments of
such plans. In adopting such best management practices, restrictions and prohibitions,
the commissioner shall consider existing state and federal guidelines or regulations
affecting aquifers and agricultural resources management.
(P.A. 89-305, S. 6, 32; P.A. 90-275, S. 3, 9; P.A. 98-209, S. 10; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(e); P.A. 04-189,
S. 1; P.A. 11-80, S. 65.)
History: P.A. 90-275 increased the annual gross sales requirement from $1,000 to $2,500, provided if a farm is located
in two or more districts that the district in which the greater part of the farm is located shall be deemed to be the district
in which the entire farm is located, extended the earliest time in which a plan is required to July 1, 1992, provided that the
commissioner shall publish notice of intent to adopt regulations concerning farm resources management plans on or before
July 1, 1991, and required the regulations to include best management practices, restrictions and prohibitions for designated
items; P.A. 98-209 amended Subsec. (a) to make submittal of farm resources management plans discretionary on the part
of the commissioner, and amended Subsec. (d) to extend the date for notice of intent to adopt regulations under this section
and to authorize certain priorities within such regulations; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Agriculture
with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of
June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection,
effective June 1, 2004; P.A. 11-80 changed "Commissioner of Environmental Protection" to "Commissioner of Energy
and Environmental Protection", effective July 1, 2011.
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Sec. 22a-354w. Guidelines for acquisition of lands surrounding public water
supply well fields. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, in
consultation with the Commissioner of Public Health and the chairperson of the Public
Utilities Regulatory Authority, shall prepare guidelines for acquisition of lands surrounding existing or proposed public water supply well fields. In preparing such guidelines the commissioner shall consider economic implications for mandating land acquisition including, but not limited to, the effect on land values and the ability of small
water companies to absorb the cost of acquisition.
(P.A. 89-305, S. 17, 32; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 96-180, S. 79, 166; P.A. 11-80, S. 1, 69.)
History: P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction
services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction
Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 96-180 changed "Department
of Public Utilities Control" to "Public Utilities Control Authority", effective June 3, 1996; P.A. 11-80 changed "Commissioner of Environmental Protection" to "Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection" and changed "Public
Utilities Control Authority" to "Public Utilities Regulatory Authority", effective July 1, 2011.
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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 deems necessary to carry out the purposes of sections
22a-365 to 22a-378, inclusive. The applicant shall provide such information to the commissioner upon request.
(b) If the applicant does not furnish the requested information, the commissioner
shall publish notice of his tentative determination on the application in accordance with
section 22a-6h and shall hold or waive a public hearing in accordance with the provisions
of subsection (f) of this section.
(c) If the commissioner finds that an application is complete, he shall notify the
applicant by certified mail, return receipt requested. The commissioner shall also notify
the applicant of the time, date and location of any public hearing to be held on the
application.
(d) Upon notifying the applicant in accordance with subsection (c) of this section
that the application is complete, the commissioner shall immediately provide notice of
the application and a concise description of the proposed diversion to the Governor, the
Attorney General, the speaker of the House of Representatives, the president pro tempore
of the Senate, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, the Commissioners
of Public Health and Economic and Community Development, the chairperson of the
Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, the chief executive officer and chairmen of the
conservation commission and wetlands agency of the municipality or municipalities in
which the proposed diversion will take place or have effect, and any person who has
requested notice of such activities.
(e) As used in this section, "municipality" means a city, town or borough of the state.
(f) The commissioner shall hold a public hearing before approving or denying an
application, except that, when the commissioner determines that the proposed diversion
(1) is necessary, (2) will not significantly affect long-range water resource management
or the environment, and (3) will not impair proper management and use of the water
resources of the state, he may waive the requirement for a hearing after publishing
notice of his tentative decision regarding the application and of his intent to waive the
requirement for a hearing in a newspaper having general circulation in the area where
the proposed diversion will take place or have effect; provided the commissioner shall
hold a hearing upon receipt, within thirty days after such notice is published or mailed,
of a petition signed by at least twenty-five persons. If a hearing is to be held, the commissioner, at the applicant's expense, shall (A) cause notice of the time, date and location
of the commencement of the hearing, a concise description of the proposed diversion,
and the commissioner's tentative determination regarding the application to be published not less than thirty days prior to the commencement of the hearing in a newspaper
having a general circulation in the area where the proposed diversion will take place or
have effect, and (B) provide the same notice to the officials listed in subsection (d) of
this section not less than thirty days prior to the commencement of the hearing.
(P.A. 82-402, S. 7, 16; P.A. 84-29, S. 1, 2; 84-546, S. 75, 173; P.A. 85-243, S. 1; P.A. 92-162, S. 10, 25; P.A. 93-381,
S. 9, 39; 93-428, S. 6, 39; P.A. 95-94, S. 1; 95-250, S. 1; 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 04-151, S. 4;
P.A. 10-32, S. 163; P.A. 11-80, S. 70.)
History: P.A. 84-29 added Subsec. (g) authorizing the commissioner to waive the public hearing requirement for
intrabasin transfers; P.A. 84-546 made technical change in Subsec. (e); P.A. 85-243 amended Subsec. (g) to apply public
hearing waiver to cases which do not involve water transfers between regional rather than subregional drainage basins;
P.A. 92-162 amended Subsec. (c) to revise some language for clarity and to delete requirement that hearings on applications
under this section be held within 120 days of notification by the commissioner of a complete application, amended Subsec.
(d) to modify the notice requirements for certain officials and to add conservation commissions, wetlands agencies and
interested persons as recipients of notice under this section, deleted former Subsecs. (e) and (g), relettering Subsec. (f)
accordingly and added new Subsec. (f) re notice and hearing requirements for approval of permits under this section; P.A.
93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July
1, 1993; P.A. 93-428 amended Subsec. (f) to specify that notice include commissioner's tentative decision in cases where
he intends to waive hearing, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-94 amended Subsec. (a) to change from 30 to 120 the number
of days the commissioner has to determine if additional information is needed and to give the applicant the option of asking
the application to be deemed complete as is rather than submit more information and amended Subsec. (b) to require the
commissioner to publish notice and hold or waive a public hearing, eliminating the requirement that he return the application;
P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Economic Development with Commissioner and
Department of Economic and Community Development; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public
Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 04-151
amended Subsec. (a) to change determination deadline from 120 days to 180 days and to remove provision re requesting
that application be deemed complete and amended Subsec. (f) to change publication and notice requirements from 20 days
to 30 days prior to commencement of hearing and to remove provision re publication twice at intervals of not less than 2
days, effective May 21, 2004; P.A. 10-32 made a technical change in Subsec. (d), effective May 10, 2010; P.A. 11-80
amended Subsec. (d) by changing "Public Utilities Control Authority" to "Public Utilities Regulatory Authority", effective
July 1, 2011.
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