General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5082
February Session, 2014 LCO No. 803
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Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 5082
February Session, 2014
LCO No. 803
*00803_______ENV*
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT CONCERNING WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT DESIGN FLOW.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, in determining whether a wastewater treatment plant has reached ninety per cent or more of its design flow, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall make such determination based upon a three-hundred-sixty-five day rolling average.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
New section
Statement of Purpose:
To reduce the effect of short-term high flows when assessing whether a wastewater treatment plant reaches ninety per cent of its design flow and, as a result of such level, the municipality must undertake a facilities plan study for expansion of such plant.
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