General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5481
February Session, 2016 LCO No. 2195
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Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
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General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 5481
February Session, 2016
LCO No. 2195
*02195_______PD_*
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING PHOSPHORUS REDUCTION REIMBURSEMENTS TO MUNICIPALITIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subdivision (6) of subsection (c) of section 22a-478 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(6) Any contract entered into by a municipality on or before July 1, [2018] 2020, that is eligible for financing as a project undertaken for phosphorus removal to at or below two-tenths milligrams per liter effluent discharge, shall receive (A) a project grant of fifty per cent of the cost of the project associated with such phosphorus removal, (B) except as provided in subdivision (3) of this subsection, a twenty per cent grant for the balance of the cost of the project, and (C) a loan for the remainder of the costs of the project, not exceeding one hundred per cent of the eligible water quality project costs. In providing funding under this subdivision, the commissioner shall give priority, first to projects with the lowest permitted limit of phosphorus discharge as contained in a valid discharge permit issued pursuant to section 22a-430, and then to those that remove the greatest amount of phosphorus, as measured in pounds per year.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage 22a-478(c)(6)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
22a-478(c)(6)
Statement of Purpose:
To extend the eligibility deadline for certain municipal water quality projects.
[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.]