Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 446i · 111 active provisions
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may make use of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and the facilities of said station, and may cooperate with any other public or private agency in carrying out the provisions of this title. The commissioner, either deputy commissioner, or any assista…
(a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Commissioner of Public Health, is authorized, as the representative of the state of Connecticut, to negotiate, cooperate and enter into agreements or compacts with authorized agencies representing any one or more states or commonwealt…
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may make a grant to any municipality or lake association for a project to improve the water quality of a lake used for public recreation. As used in sections 22a-339a to 22a-339e, inclusive, (1) “project” means any diagnostic feasibility study associated with eutr…
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall evaluate the eligibility of a project for a grant and shall award such grant based on lake priorities established by said commissioner pursuant to the federal Clean Water Act (33 USC 1251 et seq.) and the benefit to the public from the project. Such benefit…
The grants made under section 22a-339b shall be subject to the following conditions: (1) No grant shall be made for any study, report, plan or restoration measure except if such study, report, plan or restoration measure is in accordance with a priority system established by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental…
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to carry out the purposes of sections 22a-339a to 22a-339c, inclusive. Such regulations shall include provisions for reviewing the water quality of lakes to determine the eligibility for grant…
A municipality may, by vote of its legislative body, impose an assessment of a proportion of the cost of lake management implementation measures upon the owners of property specially benefited by such measures, provided no such assessment shall be in excess of the special benefit to the property. The balance of the cos…
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall: (1) Designate a lake located in two or more municipalities and Bantam Lake in Morris and Litchfield to be the subject of a program of preservation which may serve as a pilot program for the preservation and enhancement of the historic, cultural, recreationa…
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall make recommendations and take appropriate actions for the control of nonnative invasive plant species; prepare information materials for distribution; conduct educational activities which address the effects of nonnative invasive plant species upon the state…
On or before November 1, 2021, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall enter into an agreement with the town of Middlefield and the Lake Beseck Association regarding a schedule for annual water level draw downs of Lake Beseck. Water level draw downs shall be three feet during even-numbered years w…
(a) There is established an aquatic invasive species management grant and prevention and education program that shall be administered by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Pursuant to such program, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may make a grant to any municipality for: (1)…
On or before November 1, 2017, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall enter into an agreement with the town of East Haddam and the Bashan Lake Association regarding a schedule for annual water level draw downs of Bashan Lake. The agreed upon draw down level shall be required to control weeds, pre…
The commissioner shall have the power and authority, after a public hearing, subject to the issuance of a permit by the corps of engineers of the United States army, to designate and lay out channels and boat basins in lands under tidal and coastal waters for the purpose of providing access to and from deep water to up…
No agreement or compact provided for in subsection (a) of section 22a-337 shall be entered into by said commissioner until it has been approved by the Governor and any such agreement or compact shall contain a provision that the agreement or compact shall not become effective until ratified by the General Assembly of t…
The commissioner may establish, along any tidal or inland waterway or flood-prone area considered for stream clearance, channel improvement or any form of flood control or flood alleviation measure, lines beyond which, in the direction of the waterway or flood-prone area, no obstruction, encroachment or hindrance shall…
Any person who places any obstruction, encroachment or hindrance within any stream channel encroachment line established by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection pursuant to section 22a-342 without a permit issued under said section, or is maintaining any such obstruction, encroachment or hindrance pl…
The commissioner, in establishing such encroachment lines, shall base their location on the boundaries of the area which would be inundated by a flood similar in size to one or more recorded floods which have caused extensive damages in such area or on a size of flood computed by accepted methods applicable generally t…
(a) The commissioner or a hearing examiner, designated by him, shall hold a public hearing to review the proposed encroachment lines along any waterway or flood-prone area prepared in accordance with section 22a-343 with due consideration of the equities involved. Notice of such hearing shall be given by mail to all pr…
When the establishment of such lines in accordance with sections 22a-342 to 22a-348, inclusive, requires that they be placed through portions of or so as to include entire existing structures within the regulated area, such structures or portions thereof shall be considered as a nonconforming use of the area, except th…
After the commissioner has established such lines on any waterway or flood plain, any obstruction, encroachment or hindrance of any nature placed within such lines in the direction of the waterway, without specific authorization of the commissioner, shall be considered a public nuisance. The Attorney General shall, at…
The commissioner may, subject to the provisions of subsection (a) of section 22a-6, adopt, revise and amend such rules, regulations and procedures as are necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 22a-342 to 22a-348, inclusive, in the public interest.
(a) The provisions of sections 22a-342 to 22a-348, inclusive, shall not affect the provision of section 7-147 authorizing any town, city or borough to establish such lines within its jurisdiction prior to the establishment of lines by the commissioner, provided the commissioner may alter any lines, however established,…
(a) The provisions of sections 22a-342 to 22a-348, inclusive, shall not be deemed to restrict agricultural or farming uses of lands located within the stream channel encroachment lines including the building of fences, provided this section shall not apply to farm buildings and farm structures. (b) The following operat…
(a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may issue a permit for any minor activity regulated under sections 22a-342 to 22a-349, inclusive, except for any activity covered by an individual permit, if the commissioner determines that such activity would cause minimal environmental effects when conducte…
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 o…