Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 446f · 13 active provisions
The agreement or compact, in the words and form set forth in section 22a-294, entered into by the state of Connecticut with the state of New Jersey and the state of New York, signed and sealed by the commissioners of each state and filed in the office of the Secretary of the State, shall continue to be binding upon the…
Whereas, The tremendous growth of population and the development of the territory surrounding and adjacent to the harbor of New York has resulted in recent years in an increasingly serious pollution of the harbor, coastal and tidal waters in such area and the tributary waters therein; and Whereas, Such pollution consti…
On or before July first in the odd-numbered years, the Governor shall appoint a commissioner to the Interstate Environmental Commission created by the agreement or compact entered into under the laws passed by the states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The Attorney General, the Commissioner of Public Health an…
The commission shall elect from its number a chairman and vice chairman and shall appoint and at its pleasure remove or discharge such officers and legal, clerical, expert and other assistants as may be required in the discharge of the duties of the commission and shall fix and determine their duties, qualifications an…
The commission shall have power to make regulations and orders with regard to the pollution of all the coastal, estuarial and tidal waters within or covering portions of the signatory states as follows: (a) In Connecticut, Long Island Sound and estuaries and tidal waters thereof between the easterly side of New Haven H…
The commission shall have power to investigate and determine if the requirements of the compact or the orders of the commission are complied with and to bring action in its name to compel the enforcement of any and all provisions of the compact and the orders of the commission pursuant thereto or pursuant to law, by ap…
Any powers herein granted to the Interstate Environmental Commission shall be regarded as in aid of and supplemental to and in no case a limitation upon any of the powers vested in said commission by the states of New York, New Jersey and/or Connecticut by Congress or the terms of the compact.
Whenever the commission determines upon investigation that sewage or other polluting matter from any city, village, town, county, borough, municipality or other entity, as defined in the compact, building, steamboat or other vessel, or any garbage, offal or any decomposable or putrescible matter of any kind is being di…
The commission may prepare a general plan of the most practicable and economical method of securing conformity with the standards set forth in the compact, having in view the future growth and development of the district, and to that end shall cooperate and advise with the respective state authorities having jurisdicti…
The commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements and shall report to the governor and the legislature of each signatory state, on or before the twenty-fifth day of January, setting forth in detail the transactions conducted by it and shall make recommendations for any legislative action dee…
The comptroller of each of the signatory states is authorized from time to time to examine the accounts and books of the commission, including its receipts, disbursements and such other items referring to its financial standing as such comptroller deems proper, and to report the results of such examination to the gover…
(a) Subject to approval by the Congress of the United States, the Interstate Environmental Commission is authorized and empowered to make a study of smoke and air pollution within the boundaries of New Jersey and New York, such study to include a survey of the sources and extent of such pollution, property damage cause…
With respect to the state of Connecticut and as long as the Interstate Environmental Commission shall be engaged in a program relating to air pollution on behalf of the state of New York or the states of New York and New Jersey, the Interstate Environmental Commission shall, in addition to its other powers, duties and…