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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 540 1 of 2 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5175 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2021 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 540 | |
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| 9 | 9 | ||
| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT | |
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| 12 | 12 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. HORN, 64th Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT CONCERNING THE SITING OF SOLAR FACILITIES ON | |
| 19 | 19 | CERTAIN FARMLANDS. | |
| 20 | 20 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 21 | 21 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 23 | 23 | That the general statutes be amended to: (1) Require the 1 | |
| 24 | 24 | Commissioner of Agriculture to review Connecticut Siting Council 2 | |
| 25 | 25 | applications for solar facilities with a proposed capacity of one 3 | |
| 26 | 26 | megawatt or more and sixty-five megawatts or greater on prime 4 | |
| 27 | 27 | farmland or farmland of state-wide importance, as determined by the 5 | |
| 28 | 28 | United States Department of Agriculture or the Commissioner of 6 | |
| 29 | 29 | Agriculture, (2) require the Connecticut Siting Council to have a 7 | |
| 30 | 30 | member with a background in agriculture, (3) establish a Greenfields 8 | |
| 31 | 31 | Conversion Solar Mitigation Fund for the purpose of purchasing 9 | |
| 32 | 32 | conservation easements on agricultural lands, (4) require said agencies 10 | |
| 33 | 33 | to maintain on their Internet web sites information on applications for 11 | |
| 34 | 34 | such solar facilities and means for receipt of information by the public 12 | |
| 35 | 35 | on such applications, and (5) require a decommissioning bond for such 13 | |
| 36 | 36 | facilities on such farmlands. 14 Proposed Bill No. 5175 | |
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| 39 | 39 | LCO No. 540 2 of 2 | |
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| 41 | 41 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 42 | 42 | To mitigate the siting of solar facilities on prime farmlands and | |
| 43 | 43 | farmlands of state-wide importance. |