General Assembly Committee Bill No. 351
January Session, 2015 LCO No. 3910
*03910SB00351ENV*
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 351
January Session, 2015
LCO No. 3910
*03910SB00351ENV*
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PREFERENCE FOR THE SITING AND LICENSING OF COMPLETELY ENCLOSED ASPHALT PLANTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 22a-196 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(a) No asphalt batching or continuous mix facility shall be located in an area which is less than one-third of a mile in linear distance from any hospital, nursing home, school, area of critical environmental concern, watercourse, or area occupied by residential housing. Such distance shall be measured from the outermost perimeter of such facility to the outermost point of such zones provided that any such facility in operation as of December 31, 1997, shall not be subject to the provisions of this section.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) or (c) of this section, this section shall not apply to any portable asphalt batching plant that does not require a permit from the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection pursuant to the provisions of any regulations adopted under section 22a-174.
(c) On and after the effective date of this section, and in addition to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall not issue a permit for an asphalt batching or continuous mix facility unless such facility is fully enclosed.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage 22a-196
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
22a-196
Statement of Purpose:
To require the full enclosure for newly licensed asphalt plants.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist.
Co-Sponsors:
SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist.
S.B. 351