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PA 22-71—sHB 5165
Planning and Development Committee
AN ACT CONCERNING THE STATE PLAN OF CONSERVATION AND
DEVELOPMENT
SUMMARY: The act specifically requires the Office of Policy and Management
(OPM) secretary to revise the State Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD)
in the year immediately before the year in which the General Assembly will adopt
it, but no more than four years after it was last adopted. (Prior law specified the
secretary had to update it within five years of its last adoption.) As under existing
law, the secretary must submit a final proposed plan to the Continuing Legislative
Committee on State Planning and Development (Continuing Committee), which,
after a public hearing, can recommend the General Assembly approve or
disapprove it (CGS § 16a-30). (The POCD helps state agencies make decisions
consistent with the state’s development and conservation goals.)
The act also sets a schedule for the next POCD revision, specifying that the
OPM secretary must:
1. give a draft revised plan to the Continuing Committee for preliminary
review before September 1, 2023;
2. begin further revisions, as he sees fit, after December 1, 2023; and
3. publish and disseminate the first revised plan to the public by March 1,
2024.
After making the first revision available, as under existing law, the OPM
secretary must hold public hearings on the plan and solicit comments. Under the
act, the OPM secretary must submit the final proposed 2025-2030 POCD to the
Continuing Committee by December 1, 2024.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
BACKGROUND
Related Resolution
HJR 107 adopts “Conservation and Development Policies: The Plan for
Connecticut, 2018-2023” as the state plan of conservation and development.