Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 446k · 157 active provisions
(a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall examine all existing or proposed disposal systems, and shall compel their operation in a manner which shall conserve and protect the natural resources and environment of Connecticut and protect the public health, safety and welfare. (b) No disposal syste…
(a) No person or municipality shall discharge any sewage into any waters of the state which are tributary to an existing water supply impoundment or any proposed water supply impoundment identified in the long-range plan for management of water resources prepared and adopted pursuant to section 22a-352. (b) No person o…
Section 22a-418 is repealed.
It is found and declared that the pollution of the waters of the state is inimical to the public health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the state, is a public nuisance and is harmful to wildlife, fish and aquatic life and impairs domestic, agricultural, industrial, recreational and other legitimate beneficial…
As used in this chapter: “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection or his designated agent; “waters” means all tidal waters, harbors, estuaries, rivers, brooks, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, lakes, ponds, marshes, drainage systems and all other surface or underground stream…
The commissioner shall have the following powers and duties: (a) To exercise general supervision of the administration and enforcement of this chapter; (b) To develop comprehensive programs for the prevention, control and abatement of new or existing pollution of the waters of the state; (c) To advise, consult and coop…
(a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Sewage treatment plant or collection system” means any sewage treatment plant, water pollution control facility, related pumping station, collection system or other public sewage works; (2) “Sewage spill” means the diversion of wastes from any portion of a sewage treatment pla…
The commissioner may require any person or municipality to maintain such records relating to pollution, possible pollution or the operation of pollution abatement facilities as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter and the federal Water Pollution Act. The commissioner or his authorized represen…
(a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to establish standards of water quality applicable to the various waters of the state or portions thereof. Such standards shall be consistent with the federal Water Pollution Control Act…
No person or municipality shall cause pollution of any of the waters of the state or maintain a discharge of any treated or untreated wastes in violation of any provision of this chapter.
If the commissioner finds that any municipality is causing pollution of the waters of the state, or that a community pollution problem exists, or that pollution by a municipality or a community pollution problem can reasonably be anticipated in the future, he may issue to the municipality an order to abate pollution. I…
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, or the commissioner's designee and the chief elected officials of the cities of Danbury, Meriden and Waterbury and the towns of Cheshire, Southington and Wallingford, and the chief elected official of any other municipality impacted by the state-wide strategy to…
Section 22a-429 is repealed.
(a) No person or municipality shall initiate, create, originate or maintain any discharge of water, substance or material into the waters of the state without a permit for such discharge issued by the commissioner. Any person who initiated, created or originated a discharge prior to May 1, 1967, and any municipality wh…
Section 22a-430a is repealed, effective October 1, 1997.
(a)(1) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may issue a general permit for a category or categories of discharges regulated pursuant to section 22a-430, except for a discharge covered by an individual permit. The general permit may regulate, within a geographical area: (A) A category of discharges wh…
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall make available to the public an annual inventory of the persons or municipalities which have been issued a permit under section 22a-430 and which are in significant noncompliance, as defined pursuant to 40 CFR Ch. 1, 123.45. Such inventory shall be available…
The commissioner shall periodically investigate and review those sources of discharge which are operating pursuant to any order, permit, directive, registration or decision issued by the water resources commission or the commissioner before or after May 1, 1967, and, if he determines that there has been any substantial…
If the commissioner finds that any person has established a facility or created a condition before or after June 25, 1985, or is maintaining any facility or condition which reasonably can be expected to create a source of pollution to the waters of the state, he may issue an order to such person to take the necessary s…
Whenever the commissioner issues an order to abate pollution to any person pursuant to the provisions of section 22a-430 or 22a-431, an order to correct potential sources of pollution pursuant to the provisions of section 22a-432 or an order to correct a violation of hazardous waste regulations pursuant to section 22a-…
When the commissioner issues a final order to any person to correct potential sources of pollution or to abate pollution, the commissioner shall cause a certified copy thereof to be filed on the land records in the town wherein the land is located, and such order shall constitute a notice to the owner's heirs, successo…
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may cause to be filed on the land records in the town wherein the subject land is located a notice that water from a well on said land has been determined by the Commissioner of Public Health to create an unacceptable risk of injury to the health or safety of pers…
If any person or municipality fails to comply with any order to abate pollution, or any part thereof, issued pursuant to the provisions of section 22a-428, 22a-431 or 22a-433, and no request for a hearing on such order or appeal therefrom is pending and the time for making such request or taking such appeal has expired…
Each order to abate pollution issued under section 22a-428 or 22a-431 or decision under subsection (b) or (c) of section 22a-430 shall be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the subject of such order or decision and shall be deemed issued upon deposit in the mail. Any person who or municipality which i…
(a) Any person who or municipality which is aggrieved by a decision under subsection (b) or (c) of section 22a-430 or by any order of the commissioner other than an order under section 22a-6b, to abate pollution may, after a hearing by the commissioner as provided for in section 22a-436 or subsection (b) or (c) of sect…