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Statutes > Connecticut > Title22a > Chap446d > Sec22a-211Sec. 22a-211. (Formerly Sec. 19-524e). Solid waste management plans for state and local or regional authorities. Closing of municipal landfill; plan required. (a) The commissioner shall be responsible for the preparation of a state solid waste management plan which is to be updated biennially. Such plan shall be effective until adoption of a state-wide solid waste management plan pursuant to section 22a-228.
(b) If the commissioner determines that a municipal landfill shall be closed within five years of October 1, 1981, the municipality in which such landfill is located, through a municipal or regional authority, shall submit a solid waste management plan, including provisions for source separation, to the commissioner and the regional planning agency to whose jurisdiction such municipality is designated in the state's solid waste management plan for their review. Such proposed plan shall be consistent with the provisions of this chapter. If the commissioner finds, after consultation with the appropriate regional planning agency, that such proposed plan is consistent with the provisions of this chapter, the commissioner shall notify the municipality or regional authority having submitted the plan for review that such proposed plan is approved. If the commissioner finds after consultation with the appropriate planning agency that such proposed plan is not in compliance with the provisions of this chapter, the commissioner shall communicate the existence and extent of the deficiencies to the municipal or regional authority which submitted the plan for review. The municipality, through its municipal or regional authority, and after consultation with the commissioner and the appropriate planning agency, shall thereafter make such revisions in its proposed plan as may be necessary to correct the deficiencies enumerated by the commissioner. If the municipality, through its municipal or regional authority, makes the revisions required by the commissioner to correct such deficiencies, the commissioner shall thereafter approve the plan.
(c) The commissioner may from time to time issue guidelines for the purpose of assisting municipalities in developing solid waste management plans in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.
(1971, P.A. 845, S. 6; P.A. 74-276; P.A. 81-179; 81-472, S. 131, 159; P.A. 85-436, S. 5, 6; P.A. 93-423, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 74-276 restated requirement for local and regional plans in Subsec. (a) and changed adoption deadline from July 1, 1974, to July 1, 1975, replaced provisions of Subsec. (b) which had concerned commissioner's review of plans with new provisions re submission of plan to commissioner and revision or approval of plan, deleted Subsec. (c) re plans prepared by individual municipalities and Subsec. (d) re final review and approval and inserted new Subsec. (c) re guidelines; P.A. 81-179 amended Subsec. (a) by requiring a state solid waste plan rather than a plan for each solid waste region and requiring review and comment by advisory council before adoption of plan and amended Subsec. (b) by requiring a municipal plan only if the landfill in a municipality closed by October 1, 1986, replacing previous provision which required municipalities to submit proposed local and regional plans; P.A. 81-472 made technical changes; Sec. 19-524e transferred to Sec. 22a-211 in 1983; P.A. 85-436 amended Subsec. (a) to specify that plan is to be effective until adoption of state-wide solid waste management plan; P.A. 93-423 amended Subsec. (a) to delete a reference to the former Connecticut Solid Waste Management Advisory Council.
See Sec. 22a-228 re state-wide solid waste management plan.
Cited. 17 CA 17; judgment reversed, see 212 C. 570.
