General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 5873
January Session, 2017 *_____HB05873ENV___022317____*
General Assembly
Substitute Bill No. 5873
January Session, 2017
*_____HB05873ENV___022317____*
AN ACT REQUIRING NOTICE PRIOR TO PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS BY RAILROAD COMPANIES AND REQUIRING VEGETATION MANAGEMENT PLANS BY SUCH COMPANIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsections (i) to (k), inclusive, of section 22a-66a of the general statutes are repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2017):
(i) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, neither the state nor any municipality nor any pesticide application business [,] or public service company [or railroad company] shall be required to provide notice of any pesticide application made to rights-of-way, distribution lines and roadsides, including guardrails, except that an electric public service company shall be required to comply with regulations adopted pursuant to subsection (b) of section 22a-66k concerning the on-site posting of a notice of pesticide application.
(j) Any railroad company that makes any pesticide application to any rights-of-way shall, not later than twenty-one days prior to such pesticide application, provide notice of such pesticide application to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the chief elected official or board of selectmen of each municipality in which such application will be made. Not later than February first of each year, each railroad company that makes any pesticide application to any rights-of-way shall file a vegetation management plan with the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and each municipality in which such pesticide application will be made that identifies target vegetation and management methods for the forthcoming calendar year. Not later than thirty days after receipt of any such vegetation management plan each such municipality shall post such vegetation management plan on such municipality's Internet web site, if such web site is available, and such municipality may conduct a public hearing on such vegetation management plan, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54.
[(j)] (k) The Commissioner of Public Health, prior to spraying a seasonal larvicide for mosquito control, shall cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the area of the spraying notice of such spraying. The Commissioner of Public Health or any municipal or district health department, prior to adulticide spraying for mosquito control, shall post a sign in the area of such spraying notifying the public of the spraying.
[(k)] (l) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 22a-63, any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than ninety dollars.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2017 22a-66a(i) to (k)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
October 1, 2017
22a-66a(i) to (k)
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