House Bill 5564

To streamline the filing process of environmental compliance orders on land records; to eliminate the need to obtain a permit to construct, repair or alter state-owned dams; to repeal provisions relating to the Connecticut Hazardous Waste Management Service and the creation of a low-level radioactive waste account and low-level radioactive waste management fund; to exempt facilities that solely generate universal waste and residential common interest communities, under certain conditions, from the Transfer Act; to define universal waste for purposes of the Transfer Act; to allow a certifying party under the Property Transfer Act to verify that a portion of an establishment is remediated; to revise provisions regarding the renewal of a Licensed Environmental Professional license and the qualifications to be a Licensed Environmental Professional; to clarify that the ban on the use of certain materials in packages also applies to packaging; to extend the annual license renewal for a Marine Terminal to ten years; to clarify the timing of the requirements to submit Toxic Release Inventory forms annually; to require a permit for the construction, establishment or operation of a solid waste facility and to require a person who owns a unpermitted facility to submit a closure plan for it; to apply criminal and civil penalties to the Mercury Reduction Act; and to remove the prohibition to issue general permits to regulate certain process wastewater discharges to municipal pollution abatement facilities.

In the House of Representatives

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In the House of Representatives Feb 24 – Apr 10

1. Feb 24Introduced and sent to Environment Committee
2. Feb 27Heard in Environment Committee
3. Mar 20Environment Committee recommended a substitute for it
4. Apr 10Sent to Judiciary Committee