§ 22a-218 — (Formerly Sec. 19-524l). State aid to municipal and regional authorities for volume reduction plants and landfill operations.

(a) The commissioner shall make a grant to any municipal or regional authority composed of two or more municipalities which, after July 1, 1969, constructs a volume reduction plant. He shall also make grants to any municipal or regional authority which, after July 1, 1969, rebuilds, reconstructs, redesigns or acquires new machinery, equipment and or buildings for the primary purpose of reducing, controlling or eliminating air pollution in connection with waste disposal, including planning and design. In the case of a municipal or regional authority which, on said date, is in the process of constructing, rebuilding, reconstructing, redesigning or acquiring new machinery, equipment or buildings, such grant shall apply only to that part of the facility constructed, rebuilt, reconstructed or redesigned, or machinery, equipment or buildings acquired after said date. If the commissioner has approved a solid waste management plan for the municipal or regional authority, the project shall conform with such plan. The grant under this section shall be subject to the following conditions: (1) No grant shall be made for any such facility or equipment unless such facility or equipment, and the plans and specifications therefor, are approved by the commissioner and such facility is constructed or such equipment is installed in accordance with a time schedule of the commissioner and subject to such requirements as the commissioner shall impose. If the commissioner requires that the facility or equipment be approved by a federal agency, such grant shall be conditional upon the municipal or regional authority complying with all of the requirements of such agency; (2) no grant shall be made until the municipal or regional authority has agreed to pay that part of the total cost of the facility or equipment in excess of the applicable state and federal grants; (3) as used in this subdivision, “cost” means the nonfederal portion of the cost of the facility or equipment or, if there is no grant available under a federal act, the actual cost of the facility or equipment as approved by the commissioner. The grant to a single municipality shall equal twenty-five per cent of the cost of such facility or equipment; an additional ten per cent shall be granted for each additional municipality in the region but not more than sixty-five per cent of the cost of such facility or equipment; an additional grant of five per cent of the cost of such facility shall be paid if the municipal or regional authority shall provide for the disposal of bulky wastes in a manner approved by the commissioner; (4) the grant under this section shall be paid in partial payments as the commissioner shall provide; (5) no grant shall be made unless the municipal or regional authority assures the commissioner of the proper and efficient operation and maintenance of the facility after construction; (6) no grant shall be made unless the municipal or regional authority has filed properly executed forms prescribed by the commissioner; and (7) any municipal or regional authority receiving state or federal grants under this section shall keep separate accounts by project for the receipt and disposal of such eligible project funds. (b) Subject to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the commissioner shall make a grant to any municipal or regional authority which, after July 1, 1969, purchases equipment or constructs buildings in conjunction with a sanitary landfill operation approved by the commissioner. Purchase of equipment or construction of buildings shall not be undertaken without the prior approval of the commissioner. See chapter 103b re municipal resource recovery authorities.

Legislative History

(1969, P.A. 758, S. 22, 23; 1971, P.A. 483, S. 1; 845, S. 11; 872, S. 13, 14.) History: 1971 acts replaced “commission”, i.e. clean air commission, with “commissioner”, i.e. commissioner of environmental protection, replaced “municipality or district” with “municipal or regional authority”, required that projects conform to waste management plan if plan has been approved, defined “cost”, changed basis for grant allotments to total cost of facility rather than nonfederal costs as before and changed percentages to be paid and required commissioner's approval before equipment purchase or building construction undertaken; Sec. 19-507b transferred to Sec. 19-524 l in 1972; Sec. 19-524 l transferred to Sec. 22a-218 in 1983. Cited. 17 CA 17; judgment reversed, see 212 C. 570.