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      Sec. 32-23qq. Environmental Assistance Revolving Loan Fund. Subfunds. (a) An Environmental Assistance Revolving Loan Fund is created. The state, acting through the Connecticut Development Authority, or any subsidiary of the authority may provide grants, loans, lines of credit or loan guarantees to municipalities or businesses from the Environmental Assistance Revolving Loan Fund for the purposes of pollution prevention activities, as defined in section 32-23rr, for purchases and the costs associated with compliance with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (42 USC 7401, et seq.), as amended, or for remediation of contaminated real property. Within the Environmental Assistance Revolving Loan Fund, a loan subfund is created solely to provide loans and lines of credit as provided in this section, a guarantee subfund is created solely to provide loan guarantees as provided in this section and a grant subfund is created solely to provide grants as provided under this section. No financial assistance, nor any commitment to provide financial assistance, shall be provided by or entered into by the authority or any subsidiary of the authority pursuant to sections 32-23pp to 32-23ss, inclusive, which would cause the aggregate amount of all such financial assistance and commitments then outstanding to exceed the sum of the amounts in the applicable subfund of the Environmental Assistance Revolving Loan Fund plus the amount of any unpaid grants authorized to be made by the Department of Economic and Community Development to the authority or any subsidiary of the authority for deposit in the applicable subfund of the Environmental Assistance Revolving Loan Fund, provided the amount of financial assistance in the form of any guarantee shall be measured by the portion of unpaid loan principal which is guaranteed by the authority. Notwithstanding the above, the aggregate amount of financial assistance in the form of guarantees and commitments with respect thereto, calculated as above, may be up to four times the sum of the amounts available in the guarantee subfund of the Environmental Assistance Revolving Loan Fund plus the amount of any unpaid grants which remain available and are specifically designated by the department for purposes of such subfund pursuant to the bond authorization in section 32-23ss. For the purposes of this section, "business" means any business which (1) has gross revenues of less than twenty-five million dollars in its fiscal year ending prior to the application for any such loans, lines of credit or loan guarantees or (2) has fewer than one hundred fifty employees. The Connecticut Development Authority or any subsidiary of the authority shall charge and collect interest on each such loan or line of credit at a rate to be determined in accordance with procedures adopted pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. Payments made by businesses on all loans, lines of credit and loan guarantees shall be paid to the authority or any subsidiary of the authority for deposit in the Environmental Assistance Revolving Loan Fund.

      (b) The Connecticut Development Authority and any subsidiary of the authority shall adopt written procedures, in accordance with the provisions of section 1-121, to carry out the provisions of this section. Such procedures shall establish requirements for grants, loans, guarantees, interest, repayment terms, security requirements, default and remedies and such other terms and conditions as the authority or any subsidiary of the authority shall deem appropriate.

      (c) Each such grant, loan, guarantee or extension of credit shall be authorized by the Connecticut Development Authority or any subsidiary of the authority or, if the authority or any subsidiary of the authority so determines, by a committee of the authority or any subsidiary of the authority consisting of the chairman and either one other member of the authority or subsidiary or its executive director, as specified in the determination of the authority or subsidiary. Any administrative expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this section, to the extent not paid by the authority or any subsidiary of the authority or from moneys appropriated to the authority or any subsidiary of the authority, shall be paid from the Environmental Assistance Revolving Loan Fund. Payments from the Environmental Assistance Revolving Loan Fund to businesses or municipalities or to pay such administrative expenses shall be made by the authority or any subsidiary of the authority upon certification by the chairman of the authority or such subsidiary that the payment is authorized under the provisions of this section, under the applicable rules and regulations of the authority or subsidiary, and, if made to a business or municipality under the terms and conditions established by the authority or subsidiary or the duly appointed committee thereof in authorizing the making of the grant, loan or the extension of credit.

      (P.A. 91-376, S. 2, 10; P.A. 93-360, S. 8, 19; 93-382, S. 11, 69; P.A. 94-198, S. 11, 13; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; 95-334, S. 4, 13; P.A. 96-132, S. 3, 5; 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 97-124, S. 5, 16; P.A. 98-92; 98-253, S. 9.)

      History: P.A. 93-360 amended Subsec. (a) to create a loan subfund and a guarantee subfund and to limit the amount of financial assistance provided pursuant to Secs. 32-23pp to 32-23ss, inclusive, effective June 14, 1993; P.A. 93-382 deleted former Subsec. (d) re annual report to general assembly committee re commerce and exportation and relettered former Subsec. (e) accordingly, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 94-198 provided for use of the fund for installation of stage II vapor recovery systems, effective June 7, 1994; 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. 95-334 substituted "Connecticut Development Authority" for "Department of Economic Development" in Subsec. (a) and "authority" for "Treasurer" in Subsecs. (a) and (c), effective July 13, 1995 (Revisor's note: An erroneous reference in Subsec. (a) to "sections 32-23pp to 32-33ss" was changed editorially by the Revisors to "sections 32-23pp to 32-23ss"); P.A. 96-132 amended Subsec. (a) to expand uses of the fund to costs associated with compliance with the Clean Air Act where previously limited to use for installation of stage II vapor recovery systems, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 97-124 amended Subsec. (d) to exempt loans issued for compliance with the federal Clean Air Act from eligibility determination by the Connecticut Hazardous Waste Management Service, effective June 6, 1997; P.A. 98-92 and 98-253 both deleted former Subsec. (d) re role of Connecticut Hazardous Waste Management Service in determining eligibility of loan applicants; P.A. 98-253 further authorized making grants from the fund, authorized subsidiaries of the authority to provide assistance from the fund and authorized municipalities to receive assistance.