§ 22a-416 Pollution of waterways. Qualifications of operators. Delegation of authority
§ 22a-417 Discharge of sewage into tributaries of water supply impoundments or Salmon River
§ 22a-418 Complaints concerning pollution of waters; investigation; orders
§ 22a-422 Declaration of policy
§ 22a-423 Definitions
§ 22a-424 Powers and duties of commissioner
§ 22a-424a Map of anticipated sewer overflows and sewage spills. Notice of reported sewage spills and permitted sewage bypasses. Electronic reporting of sewage spill and permitted sewage bypass. Notice to municipal chief elected official, local public health officia
§ 22a-425 Records
§ 22a-426 Standards of water quality
§ 22a-427 Pollution or discharge of wastes prohibited
§ 22a-428 Orders to municipalities to abate pollution
§ 22a-428a State-wide strategy to reduce phosphorus loading in inland nontidal waters
§ 22a-429 Order to person to abate pollution
§ 22a-430 Permit for new discharge. Regulations. Renewal. Special category permits or approvals. Limited delegation. General permits
§ 22a-430a Delegation of authority to issue certain permits to municipal water pollution control authorities
§ 22a-430b General permits. Certifications by qualified professionals. Regulations
§ 22a-430c Annual inventory of persons and municipalities in significant noncompliance
§ 22a-431 Periodic investigation of discharges. Order to abate or submit information
§ 22a-432 Order to correct potential sources of pollution
§ 22a-433 Order to landowner
§ 22a-434 Filing of order on land records
§ 22a-434a Notice of contaminated wells; abatement of contamination or abandonment of well to be on land records
§ 22a-435 Injunction
§ 22a-436 Hearing on order to abate
§ 22a-437 Appeal
§ 22a-438 Forfeiture for violations. Penalties
§ 22a-439 State grant for sewers and pollution abatement facilities. Commissioner to adopt regulations
§ 22a-439a Funds for construction of facilities by state agencies
§ 22a-439b Southeastern Connecticut Water Authority may acquire and operate sewerage systems
§ 22a-440 Grants for storm and sanitary sewer separation programs, pollution abatement facilities
§ 22a-441 Grants for prior construction
§ 22a-442 State advances in anticipation of federal funds for construction of facility
§ 22a-443 State advance in anticipation of federal funds for contract plans and specifications
§ 22a-444 Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to administer funds
§ 22a-445 Commissioner to accept federal aid. Cooperation with other agencies, municipalities, states
§ 22a-446 Bond issue
§ 22a-446a Uniform tipping fee at facilities disposing of septic tank pumpings
§ 22a-447 Prior orders, directives and decisions continued in force
§ 22a-448 Pollution by chemical liquid, hazardous waste, oil or petroleum, waste oil or solid, liquid or gaseous products: Definitions
§ 22a-449 Duties and powers of commissioner re sources of potential pollution or damage. Licenses. Regulations. Nonresidential underground storage tank systems
§ 22a-449a Definitions
§ 22a-449b Portion of petroleum products gross earnings tax credited to underground storage tank petroleum clean-up account
§ 22a-449c Underground storage tank petroleum clean-up program. Applications for payment or reimbursement
§ 22a-449d Payment and reimbursement from the program. Guidelines for reasonable cost determinations. Payment to registered contractors
§ 22a-449e Regulations. Schedule for maximum or range of amounts to be paid from the program. Use of seal
§ 22a-449f Application for reimbursement for claims resulting from release of petroleum
§ 22a-449g Appeals
§ 22a-449h Extension of time to replace school underground storage tank systems
§ 22a-449i Authority of commissioners unaffected
§ 22a-449j Immunity from liability to the state for certain residential underground heating oil storage tank systems
§ 22a-449k Residential underground heating oil storage tank replacement contractors. Registration. Fees
§ 22a-449l Remediation costs of removal or replacement of certain residential underground heating oil storage tank systems. Payment for services commenced prior to July 1, 2001. Procedures
§ 22a-449m Standards for remediation of soil and replacement of residential underground heating oil storage tank systems
§ 22a-449n Remediation costs of removal or replacement of certain residential underground heating oil storage tank systems. Payment for services commenced on or after July 1, 2001. Procedures
§ 22a-449o Requirement for double-walled underground storage tanks
§ 22a-449p Milestones for investigation and remediation of a release
§ 22a-449q Storage of underground storage tank system records
§ 22a-449r Underground storage tank clean-up program. Distribution of funds. Order of priority. Reduced payment election
§ 22a-449s Underground storage tank petroleum clean-up program: Cancellation. Unavailability of program to demonstrate financial responsibility. Determination of applicability
§ 22a-449t Underground storage tank petroleum clean-up program: Prohibitions on applications. Exceptions
§ 22a-449u Bond authorization for underground storage tank petroleum clean-up program
§ 22a-449v Underground storage tank general liability insurance policy. Cancellation restriction
§ 22a-450 Report of discharge, spill, loss, seepage or filtration. Regulations
§ 22a-450a Elimination of MTBE as gasoline additive
§ 22a-451 Liability for pollution, contamination or emergency
§ 22a-451a Annual report
§ 22a-451b Expenditures by agencies paid from emergency spill response account
§ 22a-452 Reimbursement for containment or removal costs. Liability for certain acts or omissions
§ 22a-452a State lien against real estate as security for amounts paid to clean up or to remove hazardous waste. Notice and hearing
§ 22a-452b Exemptions
§ 22a-452c Definition of “spill”
§ 22a-452d Limitation on liability of innocent landowners: Definitions
§ 22a-452e Limitation on liability of innocent landowners
§ 22a-452f Exemption from liability for certain lenders
§ 22a-453 Coordination of activities with other agencies. Contracts for services
§ 22a-453a Oil spill contingency planning and coordination
§ 22a-454 Permit for collection, storage or treatment, containment, removal or disposal of certain substances, materials or wastes: Suspension or revocation. Prohibition of disposal of certain hazardous wastes in a land disposal facility. S
§ 22a-454a Closure plans. Fees. Regulations
§ 22a-454b Groundwater monitoring. Fees. Regulations
§ 22a-454c Annual fees. Generators of acutely hazardous waste. Facilities
§ 22a-457a Floating boom retention devices required, when. Regulations
§ 22a-457b Limited immunity for certain persons responding to oil spills
§ 22a-458 Water pollution control authority, mandatory establishment by municipality
§ 22a-459 Failure to establish water pollution control authority, violation. Penalties
§ 22a-460 Detergents: Definitions
§ 22a-461 Labeling of detergents. Restrictions on sale or use. Certain sewage system additives prohibited. Penalty
§ 22a-462 Sale of certain detergents prohibited: Excepted uses. Regulations
§ 22a-462a Microbead prohibitions. Regulations. Study. Penalty
§ 22a-462b Microfiber pollution working group. Consumer awareness and education program. Requirements. Membership. Report
§ 22a-463 Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB). Definitions
§ 22a-464 Restrictions on manufacture, sale or use of PCB
§ 22a-465 Use of PCB in closed systems. Incidental amounts of PCB permitted
§ 22a-466 Exemptions
§ 22a-467 Disposition of PCB regulated
§ 22a-468 Regulations
§ 22a-469 Penalty
§ 22a-469a Incineration of PCB by public service companies
§ 22a-470 Relocation or removal of public service facilities as necessary for construction of municipal sewer or pollution abatement facilities
§ 22a-471 Pollution of groundwaters. Orders to provide potable drinking water. Grants to municipalities. Hearing on order to abate. Appeal. Injunction. Forfeiture for violations. Orders to persons engaged in agriculture for contamination of groundwater by pesticide
§ 22a-471a Exemption from potable drinking water orders for persons engaged in agriculture
§ 22a-471b “Person engaged in agriculture” defined
§ 22a-472 Hydraulic fracturing waste, oil waste and natural gas waste. Definitions. Prohibitions. Permits. Information requests by Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. Regulations. Oil and gas exploration. Preemption
§ 22a-473 Exploratory drilling for oil or gas restricted
§ 22a-474 Regulations re storage of road salt
§ 22a-474a Green Snow Pro training. State, municipal and private roadside applicators. Report
§ 22a-474b Green Snow Pro training. Registration of certification by commercial applicators. Violation. Order. Regulations
§ 22a-474c Sodium chloride run-off. Home or well damage. Health district electronic reporting system. Reporting. Identification of state or federal financial resources. Criteria and procedures
§ 22a-474d Sodium and chloride drinking water testing. Residential water treatment systems installers provision of customer information. Requirement
§ 22a-475 Clean Water Fund: Definitions
§ 22a-476 Legislative finding
§ 22a-477 Clean Water Fund: Accounts and subaccounts
§ 22a-478 Eligible water quality projects. Eligible drinking water projects. Project grants. Grant account loans
§ 22a-479 Municipal approval of project funding agreements and obligations. Municipal bonds
§ 22a-480 Construction of provisions
§ 22a-481 Projects with prior funding
§ 22a-482 Regulations
§ 22a-483 Bond issue for Clean Water Fund projects. General obligation bonds. Revenue bonds
§ 22a-483f Public water system improvement program
§ 22a-484 Evaluation of improvements to secondary clarifier operations
§ 22a-485 Plan required for maintenance of oxygen levels in Long Island Sound
§ 22a-497 Municipal stormwater authority pilot program. Priority municipalities. Application. Selection criteria. Grants
§ 22a-498 Creation of stormwater authority. Members. Purposes. Powers
§ 22a-498a Municipal stormwater authority located in a distressed municipality. Powers
§ 22a-498b Delinquent charges due to municipal stormwater authority. Liens
§ 22a-499 Joint report re pilot program
§ 22a-499a Water pollution control authority located in a distressed municipality. Levy re stormwater control systems
§ 22a-499b Delinquent charges due to water pollution control authority located in a distressed municipality. Liens
§ 22a-500 Regional water pollution control authorities: Definitions. Authorization. Directors. Membership. Termination
§ 22a-501 Regional water pollution control authorities: Powers
§ 22a-502 Regional water pollution control authorities: Budgets
§ 22a-503 Regional water pollution control authorities: Employees. Benefits
§ 22a-504 Regional water pollution control authorities: Acquisition of property. Construction of system. Notice. Hearing
§ 22a-505 Regional water pollution control authorities: Determination of compensation for taking of real property
§ 22a-506 Regional water pollution control authorities: Assessments, rates, fees, charges and penalties
§ 22a-507 Regional water pollution control authorities: Issuance of bonds. Use of proceeds
§ 22a-508 Regional water pollution control authorities: Sale of bonds
§ 22a-509 Regional water pollution control authorities: Bonding obligations
§ 22a-510 Regional water pollution control authorities: Bonds or notes executed by former officers
§ 22a-511 Regional water pollution control authorities: Execution, delivery and maturation of bonds
§ 22a-512 Regional water pollution control authorities: Effect of bonds on municipal indebtedness
§ 22a-513 Regional water pollution control authorities: State not to impair obligations of authorities
§ 22a-514 Regional water pollution control authorities: Tax exemption
§ 22a-515 Regional water pollution control authorities: Other municipal powers not affected
§ 22a-516 Regional water pollution control authorities: Bonds to be securities and negotiable instruments
§ 22a-517 Regional water pollution control authorities: Receipt of Clean Water Fund disbursements
§ 22a-518 Regional water pollution control authorities: Jurisdiction
§ 22a-519 Regional water pollution control authorities: Indemnification of officers. Representation of authority by Attorney General. Legal fees of officers
§ 22a-521 Nitrogen reduction in state waters: Definitions
§ 22a-522 General permit establishing effluent units for nitrogen
§ 22a-523 Nitrogen Credit Advisory Board
§ 22a-524 Nitrogen credit exchange program
§ 22a-525 Audit of annual operating data
§ 22a-526 Regulations
§ 22a-527 Annual value of equivalent nitrogen credits

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes > Chapter 446k - Water Pollution Control

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • banks: shall include all incorporated banks. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection or his designated agent. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • community pollution problem: means the existence of pollution which, in the sole discretion of the commissioner, can best be abated by the action of a municipality. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • discharge: means the emission of any water, substance or material into the waters of the state, whether or not such substance causes pollution. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • disposal system: means a system for disposing of or eliminating wastes, either by surface or underground methods, and includes sewage systems, pollution abatement facilities, disposal wells and other systems. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • economic benefit: includes the amount of any savings resulting from avoided or delayed expenditures as a result of noncompliance with the effluent limitations of a permit to discharge into the waters of the state, and includes capital or one-time expenditures, operating costs, maintenance costs and any other benefits resulting from noncompliance. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • effluent limitation: means any restriction, established by the commissioner by regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, on quantities, rates or concentrations of chemical, physical, biological and other constituents which are discharged into the waters of the state and established by permit, schedule of compliance or administrative order. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • farm: includes farm buildings, and accessory buildings thereto, nurseries, orchards, ranges, greenhouses, hoophouses and other temporary structures or other structures used primarily for the raising and, as an incident to ordinary farming operations, the sale of agricultural or horticultural commodities. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • federal Safe Drinking Water Act: means the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 USC, Section 300f et seq. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • federal Water Pollution Control Act: means the federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 USC Section 466 et seq. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • harmful thermal effect: means any significant change in the temperature of any waters resulting from a discharge therein, the magnitude of which temperature change does or is likely to render such waters harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, or to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • legislative body: means : (1) As applied to unconsolidated towns, the town meeting. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
  • Markup: The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation.
  • Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
  • month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • municipality: means any metropolitan district, town, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough, city, borough, village, fire and sewer district, sewer district and each municipal organization having authority to levy and collect taxes or make charges for its authorized function. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • order to abate pollution: includes an order to abate existing pollution or to prevent reasonably anticipated sources of pollution. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • Ordinance: means an enactment under the provisions of §. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • persistent violator: means any person or municipality which holds a permit to discharge into the waters of the state and which has exceeded any effluent limitation by a factor of one and one-half or more for four out of six consecutive reporting periods. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • person: means any individual, partnership, association, firm, limited liability company, corporation or other entity, except a municipality, and includes the federal government, the state or any instrumentality of the state, and any officer or governing or managing body of any partnership, association, firm or corporation or any member or manager of a limited liability company. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • pollution: means harmful thermal effect or the contamination or rendering unclean or impure or prejudicial to public health of any waters of the state by reason of any wastes or other material discharged or deposited therein by any public or private sewer or otherwise so as directly or indirectly to come in contact with any waters. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • pollution abatement facility: means any equipment, plant, treatment works, structure, machinery, apparatus or land, or any combination thereof, acquired, used, constructed or operated for the storage, collection, reduction, recycling, reclamation, disposal, separation or treatment of water or wastes, or for the final disposal of residues resulting from the treatment of water or wastes, including, but not limited to: Pumping and ventilating stations, facilities, plants and works. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • potable drinking water: means drinking water from an existing water supply for which treatment is provided or an alternative supply, which the Commissioner of Public Health determines does not create an unacceptable risk of injury to the health or safety of those persons using such water as a public or private source of water for drinking or other personal or domestic uses. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • rendering unclean or impure: means any alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of any of the waters of the state, including, but not limited to, change in odor, color, turbidity or taste. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • sewage: means human and animal excretions and all domestic and such manufacturing wastes as may tend to be detrimental to the public health. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • succeeding: when used by way of reference to any section or sections, mean the section or sections next preceding, next following or next succeeding, unless some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
  • Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
  • wastes: means sewage or any substance, liquid, gaseous, solid or radioactive, which may pollute or tend to pollute any of the waters of the state. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
  • waters: means all tidal waters, harbors, estuaries, rivers, brooks, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, lakes, ponds, marshes, drainage systems and all other surface or underground streams, bodies or accumulations of water, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon this state or any portion thereof. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423