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CT Gen Stat § 22a-256m (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446d - Solid Waste Management|Section 22a-256m - Definitions.

 As used in sections 22a-256m to 22a-256u, inclusive:(1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection.(2) “Department” means the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.(3) “Newsprint” means that class or kind of paper chiefly used for printing newspapers and weighing more than twenty-four and one-half pounds but less than thirty-five pounds for five hundred sheets of paper two feet by three feet in size, on rolls which are not less than thirteen inches wide and twenty-eight inches in diameter and having a brightness of less than sixty.(4) “Newsprint user” means a person using or distributing more than one hundred tons of newsprint annually in a commercial printing or publishing operation.(5) “Publisher” means a newsprint user engaged in the business of publishing newspapers in the state.(6) “Printer” means a newsprint user engaged in the business of commercial printing in the state.(7) “Runability” means the ability of newsprint to run on the printing press without breaking.(8) “Recycled fiber” means fiber derived from postconsumer waste paper or waste paper resulting from printing operations.(9) “Postconsumer waste paper” means discarded paper after it has served its intended end use as a consumer item.(P.A. 90-224, S. 1; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” and “Department of Environmental Protection” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection” and “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 22a-256n (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446d - Solid Waste Management|Section 22a-256n - Publishers: Use of newsprint with recycled content. Schedule.

 On a state-wide basis, the percentage of recycled fiber contained in newsprint used by all publishers shall be in accordance with the following schedule: For the year ending December 31, 1992, eleven per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1993, sixteen per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1994, twenty per cent or more; for the two years ending December 31, 1996, twenty-three per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1997, thirty-one per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1998, forty per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1999, forty-five per cent or more; and for the year ending December 31, 2000, and thereafter, fifty per cent or more.(P.A. 90-224, S. 2; P.A. 95-324, S. 1.)History: P.A. 95-324 delayed by one year the schedule for the requirements for recycled content above 23%.
CT Gen Stat § 22a-256o (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446d - Solid Waste Management|Section 22a-256o - Publishers: Failure to achieve percentages. Penalty.

 If the percentages specified in section 22a-256n are not achieved by publishers as a group on the dates specified, as shown by reports submitted to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection in accordance with section 22a-256r, each publisher individually shall meet the percentages established in said section 22a-256n for the remaining years. Beginning in the year following the failure of such publishers, as a group, to achieve such levels, any publisher which individually fails to meet the specified levels shall be assessed a civil penalty of five dollars per ton based on the number of tons of recycled fiber representing the shortfall, provided such civil penalty, to be fixed by the court, shall be not less than two thousand five hundred dollars and not more than one hundred thousand dollars. The Attorney General, upon request of the commissioner, may institute a civil action in the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford to recover such penalty.(P.A. 88-230, S. 1, 2; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; 90-224, S. 4; P.A. 93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 95-220, S. 4–6; 95-324, S. 3; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: P.A. 95-324 replaced fine for violation of the section with a civil penalty and added provision authorizing Attorney General to bring civil action to recover penalties (Revisor's note: P.A. 88-230, 90-98, 93-142 and 95-220 authorized substitution of “judicial district of Hartford” for “judicial district of Hartford-New Britain”, effective September 1, 1998); pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 22a-256p (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446d - Solid Waste Management|Section 22a-256p - Printers: Use of newsprint with recycled content. Schedule.

 On a state-wide basis, the percentage of recycled fiber contained in newsprint used by all printers shall be in accordance with the following schedule: For the year ending December 31, 1992, eleven per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1993, sixteen per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1994, twenty per cent or more; for the two years ending December 31, 1996, twenty-three per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1997, thirty-one per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1998, forty per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1999, forty-five per cent or more; and for the year ending December 31, 2000, and thereafter, fifty per cent or more.(P.A. 90-224, S. 3; P.A. 95-324, S. 2.)History: P.A. 95-324 delayed by one year the schedule for the requirements for recycled content above 23%.
CT Gen Stat § 22a-256q (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446d - Solid Waste Management|Section 22a-256q - Printers: Failure to achieve percentages. Penalty.

 If the percentages specified in section 22a-256p are not achieved by printers as a group on the dates specified, as shown by reports submitted to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection in accordance with section 22a-256r, each printer individually shall meet the percentages established in said section 22a-256p for the remaining years. Beginning in the year following the failure of the printers, as a group, to achieve such levels, any printer which fails to meet the specified levels shall be assessed a civil penalty of five dollars per ton based on the number of tons of recycled fiber representing the shortfall, provided such civil penalty, to be fixed by the court, shall be not less than two thousand five hundred dollars and not more than one hundred thousand dollars. The Attorney General, upon request of the commissioner, may institute a civil action in the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford to recover such penalty.(P.A. 88-230, S. 1, 2; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; 90-224, S. 5; P.A. 93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 95-220, S. 4–6; 95-324, S. 4; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: P.A. 95-324 replaced fine for violation of the section with a civil penalty and added provision authorizing Attorney General to bring action for recovery of penalties (Revisor's note: P.A. 88-230, 90-98, 93-142 and 95-220 authorized substitution of “judicial district of Hartford” for “judicial district of Hartford-New Britain”, effective September 1, 1998); pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 22a-256r (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446d - Solid Waste Management|Section 22a-256r - Annual reports. Exemption.

 (a) On or before March 1, 1993, and annually thereafter, each newsprint user shall submit a report to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. The report shall indicate the percentage of recycled fiber used in the preceding calendar year, along with any information required by the commissioner to determine compliance with the provisions of sections 22a-256m to 22a-256u, inclusive. Any newsprint user who fails to submit the report required by this section shall be deemed to have failed to meet the percentages established in sections 22a-256n and 22a-256p.(b) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall exempt a publisher or a printer from compliance with the provisions of sections 22a-256n and 22a-256p if the commissioner determines that such publisher or printer was unable to obtain sufficient amounts of newsprint containing recycled fiber at a price comparable to the price for virgin newsprint, that he was unable to obtain newsprint containing recycled fiber within a reasonable time or that he was unable to obtain newsprint which is runable. The publisher or printer shall certify to the commissioner the specific reason for failing to use newsprint containing a sufficient amount of recycled fiber. Such certification shall be submitted along with the report required by subsection (a) of this section and shall be construed to have been made in good faith if the publisher or printer submits proof of having contacted, to obtain newsprint containing recycled fiber, each producer of such newsprint which offered to sell newsprint containing recycled fiber to the publisher or printer not more than eighteen months before the certification. Such proof shall include the address, telephone number and name of each producer contacted and the corporate name of such producer, if any.(P.A. 90-224, S. 6; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 22a-256s (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446d - Solid Waste Management|Section 22a-256s - Report by commissioner.

 Section 22a-256s is repealed, effective October 1, 2002.(P.A. 90-224, S. 7; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 22a-256t (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446d - Solid Waste Management|Section 22a-256t - Deposit of revenue into General Fund.

 Any revenue collected under the provisions of sections 22a-256o and 22a-256q shall be deposited in the General Fund.(P.A. 90-224, S. 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 414.)History: (Revisor's note: In 1995 references to “municipal solid waste recycling trust fund” were replaced editorially by the Revisors with “municipal solid waste recycling trust account” to conform section with Sec. 22a-241 as amended by P.A. 94-130); June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 replaced reference to municipal solid waste recycling trust account with reference to General Fund.
CT Gen Stat § 22a-256u (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446d - Solid Waste Management|Section 22a-256u - Regulations.

 The commissioner may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to implement the provisions of sections 22a-256m to 22a-256t, inclusive.(P.A. 90-224, S. 9.)
CT Gen Stat § 22a-256v (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446d - Solid Waste Management|Section 22a-256v - Alternative standards for recycled newsprint.

 The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall adopt alternative standards for the specifications provided in sections 22a-256n and 22a-256p if he determines, upon receipt of documentation from the Northeast Recycling Council, that such specifications are not achievable which determination shall be made not less than once annually. Such alternative standards shall be in effect during any period of time in which the commissioner determines that the publishing or printing industry is unable to obtain sufficient amounts of runable newsprint containing recycled fiber at a price comparable to the price for virgin newsprint or is unable to find such newsprint within a reasonable time.(P.A. 98-99, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 109, 121; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 made a technical change; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 22a-256y (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446d - Solid Waste Management|Section 22a-256y - Definitions.

 As used in sections 22a-256y to 22a-256ee, inclusive:(1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection;(2) “Department” means the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection;(3) “Directory publisher” means a person or entity engaged in publishing directories of any kind as part of its business which (A) in the previous calendar year used at least fifty tons of directory stock in directories which were distributed in this state, or (B) anticipates using, in the current calendar year, at least fifty tons of directory stock in directories which are distributed in this state;(4) “Directory stock” means that class or kind of paper chiefly used for printing directories and weighing more than eighteen pounds but less than twenty-six pounds for five hundred sheets of paper twenty-four inches by thirty-six inches in size, on rolls which are not less than twenty-six inches wide and forty inches in diameter and, for twenty pound white directory stock, having a brightness of less than 57;(5) “Runability” means the ability of directory stock to run on a printing press using flexography, letterpress and offset printing processes without breaking;(6) “Recycled fiber” means fiber derived from postconsumer waste paper or waste paper resulting from printing operations;(7) “Postconsumer waste paper” means discarded paper after it has served its intended use as a consumer item.(P.A. 90-281, S. 1; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” and “Department of Environmental Protection” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection” and “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 22a-256z (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446d - Solid Waste Management|Section 22a-256z - Directory publishers: Use of directory stock with recycled fiber. Schedule.

 On a state-wide basis, the percentage of recycled fiber contained in directory stock used by all directory publishers shall be in accordance with the following schedule: For the year ending December 31, 1995, ten per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1996, fifteen per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1997, twenty per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1998, twenty-five per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 1999, thirty per cent or more; for the year ending December 31, 2000, thirty-five per cent or more; and thereafter, forty per cent or more.(P.A. 90-281, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 22a-257. (Formerly Sec. 19-524p) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446e - Solid Waste Management Services Act|Section 22a-257. (Formerly Sec. 19-524p) - Short title: Connecticut Solid Waste Management Services Act.

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Connecticut Solid Waste Management Services Act”.(P.A. 73-459, S. 1, 26.)History: Sec. 19-524p transferred to Sec. 22a-257 in 1983.
CT Gen Stat § 22a-258. (Formerly Sec. 19-524q) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446e - Solid Waste Management Services Act|Section 22a-258. (Formerly Sec. 19-524q) - Legislative finding.

 It is found and declared that the people of the state of Connecticut have the right to a clean and wholesome environment; that prevailing solid waste disposal practices generally, throughout the state, result in unnecessary environmental damage, waste valuable land and other resources, and constitute a continuing hazard to the health and welfare of the people of the state; that local governments responsible for waste disposal services are becoming hard pressed to provide adequate services at reasonable costs, without damage or hazard to the environment and the loss of useful resources; that locally organized voluntary recycling programs have shown that solid wastes produced in the state of Connecticut contain recoverable resources; that technology and methods now exist to dispose of solid wastes and recover resources with commensurate environmental benefits; that coordinated large-scale processing of solid wastes may be necessary in order to achieve maximum environmental and economic benefits for the people of the state; that the amounts of solid waste being produced within the state of Connecticut are adequate to sustain such large-scale processing; that the geography and population density of the state are such as to enable and facilitate the effective and economic regional accumulation of solid wastes; that the development of systems and facilities and the use of the technology necessary to initiate large-scale processing of solid wastes have become logical and necessary functions to be assumed by state government; that the provision of solid waste disposal services to local governments at reasonable cost, through the use of state governmental powers and capabilities, would supply valuable assistance to such local governments; and, that, because of the foregoing, the provision of statutory authorization for the necessary state structure, which can take initiative and appropriate action to provide the necessary systems, facilities, technology and services for solid waste management and resources recovery is a matter of important public interest and that it is the purpose and intent of the General Assembly to be and remain cognizant not only of its responsibility to authorize and establish the necessary state and local structure and powers for the effective accomplishment of solid waste management and resources recovery, but also of its responsibility to monitor and supervise the activities and operations of the state authority created by this chapter, and the exercise of the powers conferred upon such authority by virtue of this chapter.(P.A. 73-459, S. 2, 26.)History: Sec. 19-524q transferred to Sec. 22a-258 in 1983.Cited. 193 C. 506; 201 C. 700.Cited. 20 CA 474.
CT Gen Stat § 22a-260a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446e - Solid Waste Management Services Act|Section 22a-260a - Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority. Successor to Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority.

 (a) There is established the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority. The Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority shall constitute a successor authority to the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-38d, 4-38e and 4-39.(b) Wherever the words “Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority” are used in any public or special act of 2014 or in the following sections of the general statutes, the words “Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority” shall be substituted in lieu thereof: 1-79, 1-120, 1-124, 1-125, 3-24d, 3-24f, 7-329a, 12-412, 12-459, 16-1, 16-245, 16-245b, 22a-208a, 22a-208v, 22a-209h, 22a-219b, 22a-220, 22a-241, 22a-260, 22a-261, 22a-263a, 22a-263b, 22a-268a, 22a-268b, 22a-270a, 22a-272a, 22a-282, 22a-283, 22a-284, 32-1e and 32-658.(c) The Legislative Commissioners' Office shall, in codifying the provisions of this section, make such conforming, technical, grammatical and punctuation changes as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.(P.A. 14-94, S. 1.)History: P.A. 14-94 effective June 6, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 22a-263. (Formerly Sec. 19-524v) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 22a - Environmental Protection|Chapter 446e - Solid Waste Management Services Act|Section 22a-263. (Formerly Sec. 19-524v) - Meetings. Records. Reports. Audits.

 The directors of the authority shall meet at least monthly at the call of the chairman and may meet more frequently if necessary and desirable. It shall maintain at all times minutes of its meetings including its considerations, deliberations, decisions and resolutions, which minutes shall be considered public records. It shall maintain all necessary records and data with respect to its operations and shall report quarterly to the Governor and annually to the General Assembly, upon its operations. Such reports shall include but not be limited to a listing of the number and type of waste management service contracts entered into with local government units and persons, and the charges therefor; a listing of the contracts entered into for the services of private industry in the operation of systems and facilities; a map showing the location of all facilities owned or leased by the authority; a schedule of the amounts of waste received and processed in such facilities; a listing of the outstanding issues of notes and bonds of the authority and the payment status thereof; a budget showing the administrative expenses of the authority; a report of revenues of the authority from all sources and of the redistribution of any surplus revenues. The authority shall be subject to audit by the state Auditors of Public Accounts in accordance with normal audit practices prescribed for departments, boards, commissions and other agencies of the state.(P.A. 73-459, S. 7, 26.)History: Sec. 19-524v transferred to Sec. 22a-263 in 1983.