(a) The purposes of the authority shall be:

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 22a-262

  • Authority: means the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority created and established pursuant to this chapter or any board, body, commission, department, officer, agency or other successor thereto. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
  • commissioner: means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection or his or her designated agent. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-2
  • Costs: means the cost or fair market value, as determined by the authority, of construction, lands, property rights, utility extensions, disposal facilities, access roads, easements, franchises, financing charges, interest, engineering and legal services, plans, specifications, surveys, cost estimates, studies, transportation and other expenses necessary or incidental to the design, development, construction, financing, management and operation and maintenance of a waste management project, and such other costs or expenses of the authority, including administrative and operating costs, research and development, and operating capital, including fees, charges, loans, insurances, and the expense of purchasing real and personal property, including waste management projects. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
  • Recycling: means the processing of solid waste to reclaim material therefrom. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
  • Resources recovery: means the processing of solid wastes to reclaim energy therefrom. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
  • Revenues: means moneys or income received by the authority in whatever form, including but not limited to fees, charges, lease payments, interest payments on investments, payments due and owing on account of any instrument, contract or agreement between the authority and any municipality, region, state agency or person, gifts, grants, bestowals or any other moneys or payments to which the authority is entitled under the provisions of this chapter or any other law, or of any agreement, contract or indenture of the authority. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
  • Solid waste: means unwanted or discarded solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material, including but not limited to, demolition debris, material burned or otherwise processed at a resources recovery facility or incinerator, material processed at a recycling facility and sludges or other residue from a water pollution abatement facility, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
  • State-wide solid waste management plan: means the administrative and financial plan developed by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection for solid waste disposal and resources recovery, pursuant to §. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
  • Waste management services: means actions taken to effectuate the receipt, storage, transportation and processing for resources recovery, recycling, reuse of recovered materials, or disposal of solid wastes, including the sale of products, materials or energy on behalf of the state, a region, a municipality or a person by the authority or by any person or persons acting under contract with the authority, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260

(1) The planning, design, construction, financing, management, ownership, operation and maintenance of solid waste disposal, volume reduction, recycling, intermediate processing and resources recovery facilities and all related solid waste reception, storage, transportation and waste-handling and general support facilities considered by the authority to be necessary, desirable, convenient or appropriate in carrying out the provisions of the state-wide solid waste management plan and in establishing, managing and operating solid waste disposal and resources recovery systems and their component waste-processing facilities and equipment;

(2) The provision of solid waste management services to municipalities, regions and persons within the state by receiving solid wastes at authority facilities, pursuant to contracts between the authority and such municipalities, regions and persons; the recovery of resources and resource values from such solid wastes; and the production from such services and resources recovery operations of revenues sufficient to provide for the support of the authority and its operations on a self-sustaining basis, with due allowance for the redistribution of any surplus revenues to reduce the costs of authority services to the users thereof provided such surplus revenues shall include any net revenue from activities undertaken pursuant to subdivisions (18) and (19) of subsection (a) of § 22a-266 and subdivision (8) of § 22a-267;

(3) The utilization, through contractual arrangements, of private industry for implementation of some or all of the requirements of the state-wide solid waste management plan and for such other activities as may be considered necessary, desirable or convenient by the authority;

(4) Assistance with and coordination of efforts directed toward source separation for recycling purposes; and

(5) In consultation with the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection and consistent with the state-wide solid waste management plan adopted pursuant to § 22a-228, the development of new industries, technologies and commercial enterprises on property owned by the authority based upon resource recovery, recycling, reuse and treatment or processing of solid waste.

(b) These purposes shall be considered to be operating responsibilities of the authority, in accordance with the state-wide solid waste management plan, and are to be considered in all respects public purposes.

(c) These purposes shall not include activities related to state-wide recycling education and promotion or the establishment of state-wide solid waste management or policy.