Conn. Gen. Stat. § 22a-134pp

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.

Section 22a-134pp - Definitions

For the purposes of this section and sections 16 to 23, inclusive, of this act:

(1) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection;

(2) "Brownfields program" means the brownfields liability relief program established pursuant to section 32-764 of the general statutes, the abandoned brownfields program authorized by section 32-769 of the general statutes, the brownfield remediation and revitalization program authorized by section 32-769 of the general statutes, or the municipal brownfield liability relief program authorized by section 22a-133ii of the general statutes;

(3) "Land and waters of the state" means all waters, as defined in section 22a-423 of the general statutes, and any land surface, including improved or unimproved surfaces, soils or subsurface strata;

(4) "Municipality" has the same meaning as provided in section 22a-423 of the general statutes;

(5) "Person" means any individual, partnership, association, firm, limited liability company, corporation or other entity, the federal government, the state or any instrumentality or subdivision of the state, including any municipality, 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, provided (A) any such officer, body, member or manager is in a position of responsibility that allows the person to influence corporate policies or activities; (B) there is a nexus between the officer, body, member or manager's actions or inactions in such position and the violation of sections 16 to 22, inclusive, of this act such that such officer, body, member or manager influenced the corporate actions that constituted the violation; and (C) the actions or inactions of the officer, body, member or manager facilitated such violation;

(6) "Release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping or disposing into or onto the land and waters of the state, not authorized under title 22a of the general statutes, of oil or petroleum or chemical liquids or solids, liquid or gaseous products or hazardous waste as defined in section 22a-448 of the general statutes. "Release" does not include automotive exhaust or the application of fertilizer or pesticides consistent with their labeling;

(7) "Remediation" means determining the nature and extent of a release, in accordance with prevailing standards and guidelines, and the containment, removal and mitigation of such release, and includes, but is not limited to, the reduction of pollution by monitored natural attenuation;

(8) "Report" means to notify the commissioner of a release in accordance with the provisions of sections 16 to 19, inclusive, of this act and in the manner specified by the commissioner; and

(9) "Verification" means the written opinion of a licensed environmental professional on a form prescribed by the commissioner that the remediation of a release satisfies the standards established in regulations adopted pursuant to this act.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 22a-134pp

Added by P.A. 20-0009,S. 15 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2020 Third Special Session, eff. 10/2/2020.