Senate Bill No. 94
Public Act No. 22-20
AN ACT CONCERNING CERTAIN MODIFICATIONS TO GAS
PIPELINE PROCESSES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 16-7 of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2022):
The utility commissioners of the Public Utilities Regulatory
Authority, or their designees, while engaged in the performance of their
duties may, at all reasonable times, enter any premises, buildings, cars,
plants or other places belonging to or controlled by any public service
company, [or] electric supplier or person involved in the transportation
of gas, as such terms are defined in section 16-280a, and any person
obstructing or in any way causing to be obstructed or hindered any
utility commissioner of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority or
employee of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority in the
performance of his or her duties shall be fined not more than [two
hundred] ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than six months,
or both.
Sec. 2. Section 16-8 of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2022):
(a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority may, in its discretion, Senate Bill No. 94
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delegate its powers, in specific cases, to one or more of its directors or to
a hearing officer to ascertain the facts and report thereon to the
authority. The authority, or any director thereof, in the performance of
its duties or in connection with any hearing, or at the request of any
person, corporation, company, town, borough or association, may
summon and examine, under oath, such witnesses, and may direct the
production of, and examine or cause to be produced and examined, such
books, records, vouchers, memoranda, documents, letters, contracts or
other papers in relation to the affairs of any public service company or
person involved in the transportation of gas, as such terms are defined
in section 16-280a, as it may find advisable, and shall have the same
powers in reference thereto as are vested in magistrates taking
depositions. If any witness objects to testifying or to producing any book
or paper on the ground that such testimony, book or paper may tend to
incriminate him, and the authority directs such witness to testify or to
produce such book or paper, and he complies, or if he is compelled so
to do by order of court, he shall not be prosecuted for any matter
concerning which he or she has so testified. The fees of witnesses
summoned by the authority to appear before it under the provisions of
this section, and the fees for summoning witnesses shall be the same as
in the Superior Court. All such fees, together with any other expenses
authorized by statute, the method of payment of which is not otherwise
provided, shall, when taxed by the authority, be paid by the state,
through the business office of the authority, in the same manner as court
expenses. The authority may designate in specific cases a hearing officer
who may be a member of its technical staff or a member of the
Connecticut Bar engaged for that purpose under a contract approved by
the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management to hold a hearing
and make report thereon to the authority. A hearing officer so
designated shall have the same powers as the authority, or any director
thereof, to conduct a hearing, except that only a director of the authority
shall have the power to grant immunity from prosecution to any witness
who objects to testifying or to producing any book or paper on the Senate Bill No. 94
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ground that such testimony, book or paper may tend to incriminate him
or her.
(b) (1) The authority may employ professional personnel to perform
management audits. The authority shall promptly establish such
procedures as it deems necessary or desirable to provide for
management audits to be performed on a regular or irregular schedule
on all or any portion of the operating procedures and any other internal
workings of any public service company or person involved in the
transportation of gas, as such terms are defined in section 16-280a,
including the relationship between any public service company or
person involved in the transportation of gas, as such terms are defined
in section 16-280a, and a related holding company or subsidiary,
consistent with the provisions of section 16-8c, provided no such audit
shall be performed on a community antenna television company, except
with regard to any noncable communications services which the
company may provide, or when (A) such an audit is necessary for the
authority to perform its regulatory functions under the
Communications Act of 1934, 47 USC 151, et seq., as amended from time
to time, other federal law or state law, (B) the cost of such an audit is
warranted by a reasonably foreseeable financial, safety or service benefit
to subscribers of the company which is the subject of such an audit, and
(C) such an audit is restricted to examination of the operating
procedures that affect operations within the state.
(2) In any case where the authority determines that an audit is
necessary or desirable, it may (A) order the audit to be performed by
one of the management audit teams, (B) require the affected company
or person to perform the audit utilizing the company's own internal
management audit staff as supervised by designated members of the
authority's staff or the person's own internal management audit staff as
supervised by designated members of the authority's staff, or (C)
require that the audit be performed under the supervision of designated Senate Bill No. 94
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members of the authority's staff by an independent management
consulting firm selected by the authority, in consultation with the
affected company or person. If the affected company or person has more
than seventy-five thousand customers, such independent management
consulting firm shall be of nationally recognized stature. All reasonable
and proper expenses of the audits, including, but not limited to, the costs
associated with the audit firm's testimony at a public hearing or other
proceeding, shall be borne by the affected companies or persons and
shall be paid by such companies or persons at such times and in such
manner as the authority directs.
(3) For purposes of this section, a complete audit shall consist of (A)
a diagnostic review of all functions of the audited company or person,
which shall include, but not be limited to, documentation of the
operations of the company or person, assessment of the company's
system of internal controls or assessment of the person's system of
internal controls, and identification of any areas of the company or
person which may require subsequent audits, and (B) the performance
of subsequent focused audits identified in the diagnostic review and
determined necessary by the authority. All audits performed pursuant
to this section shall be performed in accordance with generally accepted
management audit standards. The authority shall adopt regulations in
accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 setting forth such generally
accepted management audit standards. Each audit of a community
antenna television company shall be consistent with the provisions of
the Communications Act of 1934, 47 USC 151, et seq., as amended from
time to time, and of any other applicable federal law. The authority shall
certify whether a portion of an audit conforms to the provisions of this
section and constitutes a portion of a complete audit.
(4) A complete audit of each portion of each gas company or electric
distribution company having more than seventy-five thousand
customers shall begin no less frequently than every six years, so that a Senate Bill No. 94
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complete audit of such a company's operations shall be performed every
six years. Such an audit of each such company having more than
seventy-five thousand customers shall be updated as required by the
authority.
(5) The results of an audit performed pursuant to this section shall be
filed with the authority and shall be open to public inspection. Upon
completion and review of the audit, if the person or firm performing or
supervising the audit determines that any of the operating procedures
or any other internal workings of the affected public service company
or person involved in the transportation of gas, as such terms are
defined in section 16-280a, are inefficient, improvident, unreasonable,
negligent or in abuse of discretion, the authority may, after notice and
opportunity for a hearing, order the affected public service company or
person involved in the transportation of gas, as such terms are defined
in section 16-280a, to adopt such new or altered practices and
procedures as the authority shall find necessary to promote efficient and
adequate service to meet the public convenience and necessity. The
authority shall annually submit a report of audits performed pursuant
to this section to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly
having cognizance of matters relating to public utilities which report
shall include the status of audits begun but not yet completed and a
summary of the results of audits completed. Any such report may be
submitted electronically.
(6) All reasonable and proper costs and expenses, as determined by
the authority, of complying with any order of the authority pursuant to
this subsection shall be recognized by the authority for all purposes as
proper business expenses of the affected company or person.
(7) After notice and hearing, the authority may modify the scope and
schedule of a management audit of a telephone company which is
subject to an alternative form of regulation so that such audit is
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(c) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to interfere or conflict with
any powers of the authority or its staff provided elsewhere in the
general statutes, including, but not limited to, the provisions of this
section and sections 16-7, as amended by this act, 16-28 and 16-32, to
conduct an audit, investigation or review of the books, records, [plant]
plants and equipment of any regulated public service company or
person involved in the transportation of gas, as such terms are defined
in section 16-280a.
Sec. 3. Section 16-8a of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2022):
(a) No public service company, as defined in section 16-1, holding
company, as defined in section 16-47, person involved in the
transportation of gas, as such terms are defined in section 16-280a, or
Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensee operating a nuclear power
generating facility in this state, or person, firm, corporation, contractor
or subcontractor directly or indirectly providing goods or services to
such public service company, holding company, person involved in the
transportation of gas or licensee, may take or threaten to take any
retaliatory action against an employee for the employee's disclosure of
(1) any matter involving the substantial misfeasance, malfeasance or
nonfeasance in the management of such public service company,
holding company, person involved in the transportation of gas or
licensee, or (2) information pursuant to section 31-51m. Any employee
found to have knowingly made a false disclosure shall be subject to
disciplinary action by the employee's employer, up to and including
dismissal.
(b) Any employee of such a public service company, holding
company, person involved in the transportation of gas or licensee, or of
any person, firm, corporation, contractor or subcontractor directly or
indirectly providing goods or services to such a public service company,
holding company, person involved in the transportation of gas or Senate Bill No. 94
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licensee, having knowledge of any of the following may transmit all
facts and information in the employee's possession to the Public Utilities
Regulatory Authority: (1) Any matter involving substantial
misfeasance, malfeasance or nonfeasance in the management of such
public service company, holding company, person involved in the
transportation of gas or licensee; or (2) any matter involving retaliatory
action or the threat of retaliatory action taken against an employee who
has reported the misfeasance, malfeasance or nonfeasance, in the
management of such public service company, holding company, person
involved in the transportation of gas or licensee. With regard to any
matter described in subdivision (1) of this subsection, the authority shall
investigate such matter in accordance with the provisions of section 16-
8, as amended by this act, and shall not disclose the identity of such
employee without the employee's consent unless it determines that such
disclosure is unavoidable during the course of the investigation. With
regard to any matter described in subdivision (2) of this subsection, the
matter shall be handled in accordance with the procedures set forth in
subsections (c) and (d) of this section.
(c) (1) Not more than ninety business days after receipt of a written
complaint, in a form prescribed by the authority, by an employee
alleging the employee's employer has retaliated against an employee in
violation of subsection (a) of this section, the authority shall make a
preliminary finding in accordance with this subsection.
(2) Not more than five business days after receiving a written
complaint, in a form prescribed by the authority, the authority shall
notify the employer by certified mail. Such notification shall include a
description of the nature of the charges and the substance of any
relevant supporting evidence. The employer may submit a written
response and both the employer and the employee may present rebuttal
statements in the form of affidavits from witnesses and supporting
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verbally about the nature of the employee's charges. The authority shall
consider in making its preliminary finding as provided in subdivision
(3) of this subsection any such written and verbal responses, including
affidavits and supporting documents, received by the authority not
more than twenty business days after the employer receives such notice.
Any such response received after twenty business days shall be
considered by the authority only upon a showing of good cause and at
the discretion of the authority. The authority shall make its preliminary
finding as provided in subdivision (3) of this subsection based on
information described in this subdivision, without a public hearing.
(3) Unless the authority finds by clear and convincing evidence that
the adverse employment action was taken for a reason unconnected
with the employee's report of substantial misfeasance, malfeasance or
nonfeasance, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that an employee
was retaliated against in violation of subsection (a) of this section if the
authority finds that: (A) The employee had reported substantial
misfeasance, malfeasance or nonfeasance in the management of the
public service company, holding company, person involved in the
transportation of gas or licensee; (B) the employee was subsequently
discharged, suspended, demoted or otherwise penalized by having the
employee's status of employment changed by the employee's employer;
and (C) the subsequent discharge, suspension, demotion or other
penalty followed the employee's report closely in time.
(4) If such findings are made, the authority shall issue an order
requiring the employer to immediately return the employee to the
employee's previous position of employment or an equivalent position
pending the completion of the authority's full investigatory proceeding
pursuant to subsection (d) of this section.
(d) Not later than thirty days after making a preliminary finding in
accordance with the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, the
authority shall initiate a full investigatory proceeding in accordance Senate Bill No. 94
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with the provisions of section 16-8, as amended by this act, at which time
the employer shall have the opportunity to rebut the presumption. The
authority may issue orders, impose civil penalties, order payment of
back pay or award attorneys' fees in a manner that conforms with the
notice and hearing provisions in section 16-41, as amended by this act,
against a public service company, holding company, person involved in
the transportation of gas or licensee or a person, firm, corporation,
contractor or subcontractor directly or indirectly providing goods or
services to such public service company, holding company, person
involved in the transportation of gas or licensee, in order to enforce the
provisions of this section.
(e) If an employee or former employee of such a public service
company, holding company, person involved in the transportation of
gas or licensee, or of a person, firm, corporation, contractor or
subcontractor directly or indirectly providing goods or services to such
a public service company, holding company, person involved in the
transportation of gas or licensee, having knowledge of any matter
involving the substantial misfeasance, malfeasance or nonfeasance in
the management of such public service company, holding company,
person involved in the transportation of gas or licensee, enters into an
agreement with the employee's employer that contains a provision
directly or indirectly discouraging the employee from presenting a
written complaint or testimony concerning such misfeasance,
malfeasance or nonfeasance in any legislative, administrative or judicial
proceeding, such provision shall be void as against public policy.
(f) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall adopt regulations,
in accordance with chapter 54, to carry out the provisions of this section.
Such regulations shall include the following: (1) The procedures by
which a complaint may be brought pursuant to subsection (a) of this
section; (2) the time period in which such a complaint may be brought;
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pursuant to subsection (d) of this section; (4) the form on which written
complaints shall be submitted to the authority by an employee pursuant
to subsection (c) of this section; and (5) the requirement that a notice be
posted in the workplace informing all employees of any public service
company, holding company, person involved in the transportation of
gas and licensee and of any person, firm, corporation, contractor or
subcontractor directly or indirectly providing goods or services to a
company or licensee, as defined in subsection (b) of this section, of their
rights under this section, including the right to be reinstated in
accordance with subsection (c) of this section.
Sec. 4. Section 16-11 of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2022):
The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall, so far as is
practicable, keep fully informed as to the condition of the plant,
equipment and manner of operation of all public service companies and
persons involved in the transportation of gas, as such terms are defined
in section 16-280a, in respect to their adequacy and suitability to
accomplish the duties imposed upon such companies by law and in
respect to their relation to the safety of the public and of the employees
of such companies or persons. The authority may order such reasonable
improvements, repairs or alterations in such plant or equipment, or such
changes in the manner of operation, as may be reasonably necessary in
the public interest. The general purposes of this section and sections 16-
19, 16-25, 16-43 and 16-47 are to assure to the state of Connecticut its full
powers to regulate its public service companies, to increase the powers
of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and to promote local control
of the public service companies of this state, and said sections shall be
so construed as to effectuate these purposes.
Sec. 5. Section 16-16 of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2022): Senate Bill No. 94
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Each public service company, person involved in the transportation
of gas, as such terms are defined in section 16-280a, and electric supplier
subject to regulation by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall,
in the event of any accident attended with personal injury or involving
public safety, which was or may have been connected with or due to the
operation of its [or his] property, or caused by contact with the wires of
any public service company or electric supplier, notify the authority
thereof, by telephone or otherwise, as soon as may be reasonably
possible after the occurrence of such accident, unless such accident is a
minor accident, as defined by regulations of the authority. Each such
person, company or electric supplier shall report such minor accidents
to the authority in writing, in summary form, once each month. If notice
of such accident, other than a minor accident, is given otherwise than in
writing, it shall be confirmed in writing within five days after the
occurrence of such accident. Any person, company or electric supplier
failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be fined not
more than five hundred dollars for each offense.
Sec. 6. Section 16-41 of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2022):
(a) Each (1) public service company and its officers, agents and
employees, (2) electric supplier or person providing electric generation
services without a license in violation of section 16-245, and its officers,
agents and employees, (3) certified telecommunications provider or
person providing telecommunications services without authorization
pursuant to sections 16-247f to 16-247h, inclusive, and its officers, agents
and employees, (4) person, public agency or public utility, as such terms
are defined in section 16-345, subject to the requirements of chapter 293,
(5) person subject to the registration requirements under section 16-
258a, (6) cellular mobile telephone carrier, as described in section 16-
250b, (7) Connecticut electric efficiency partner, as defined in section 16-
243v, (8) company, as defined in section 16-49, [and] (9) entity approved Senate Bill No. 94
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to submeter pursuant to section 16-19ff, and (10) person involved in the
transportation of gas, as such terms are defined in section 16-280a, shall
obey, observe and comply with all applicable provisions of this title and
each applicable order made or applicable regulations adopted by the
Public Utilities Regulatory Authority by virtue of this title as long as the
same remains in force. Any such company, electric supplier, certified
telecommunications provider, cellular mobile telephone carrier,
Connecticut electric efficiency partner, entity approved to submeter,
person, any officer, agent or employee thereof, public agency or public
utility which the authority finds has failed to obey or comply with any
such provision of this title, order or regulation shall be fined, ordered to
pay restitution to customers or ordered to pay a combination of a fine
and restitution by order of the authority in accordance with the penalty
prescribed for the violated provision of this title or, if no penalty is
prescribed, not more than ten thousand dollars for each offense, except
that the penalty shall be a fine, restitution to customers or a combination
of a fine and restitution of not more than forty thousand dollars for
failure to comply with an order of the authority made in accordance
with the provisions of section 16-19 or 16-247k or within thirty days of
such order or within any specific time period for compliance specified
in such order. The authority may direct a portion of any fine levied
pursuant to this section to be paid to a nonprofit agency engaged in
energy assistance programs named by the authority in its decision or
notice of violation. Each distinct violation of any such provision of this
title, order or regulation shall be a separate offense and, in case of a
continued violation, each day thereof shall be deemed a separate
offense. Each such penalty and any interest charged pursuant to
subsection (g) or (h) of section 16-49 shall be excluded from operating
expenses for purposes of rate-making.
(b) Any regional water authority, any regional water district, any
municipal gas or electric plant established under chapter 101, any
municipal waterworks system established under chapter 102, or any Senate Bill No. 94
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other municipality or department thereof owning, leasing, operating or
managing a plant for the supplying or furnishing of any public utility,
which the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority finds has failed to
comply with the procedures of section 16-29, shall be subject to a civil
penalty of not more than five thousand dollars for any annual report
which is not submitted or submitted late in violation of said section.
(c) If the authority has reason to believe that a violation has occurred
for which a civil penalty is authorized by subsection (a) or (b) of this
section, it shall notify the alleged violator by certified mail, return
receipt requested, or by personal service. The notice shall include:
(1) A reference to the sections of the title, regulation or order
involved;
(2) A short and plain statement of the matter asserted or charged;
(3) A statement of the prescribed civil penalty for the violation; and
(4) A statement of the person's right to a hearing.
(d) The person to whom the notice is addressed shall have twenty
days from the date of receipt of the notice in which to deliver to the
authority a written application for a hearing. If a hearing is requested,
then, after a hearing and upon a finding that a violation has occurred,
the authority may issue a final order assessing a civil penalty under this
section which shall not be greater than the maximum penalty [stated in
the notice] permitted by law. If a hearing is not requested, or if such a
request is later withdrawn, then the notice shall, on the first day after
the expiration of the twenty-day period or on the first day after the
withdrawal of the request for hearing, whichever is later, become a final
order of the authority and the matters asserted or charged in the notice
shall be deemed admitted, unless the notice is modified by a consent
order before it becomes a final order. A consent order shall be deemed
a final order. Senate Bill No. 94
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(e) All hearings under this section shall be conducted under sections
4-176e to 4-184, inclusive. The final order of the authority assessing a
civil penalty shall be subject to appeal under section 4-183. No challenge
to any final order of the authority assessing a civil penalty shall be
allowed as to any issue which could have been raised by an appeal of
an earlier order of the authority. Any civil penalty authorized by this
section shall become due and payable (1) at the time of receipt of a final
order in the case of a civil penalty assessed in such order after a hearing,
(2) on the first day after the expiration of the period in which a hearing
may be requested if no hearing is requested, or (3) on the first day after
the withdrawal of a request for hearing.
(f) A civil penalty assessed in a final order of the authority under this
section may be enforced in the same manner as a judgment of the
Superior Court. The final order shall be delivered to the respondent by
personal service or by certified mail, return receipt requested. After
entry of such final order, the authority may file a transcript without the
payment of costs, in the office of the clerk of the superior court in the
judicial district in which the respondent resides, has a place of business,
owns real property, or in which any real property which is the subject
of the proceedings is located or, if the respondent is not a resident of the
state of Connecticut, in the judicial district of Hartford. Upon the filing,
the clerk shall docket the order in the same manner and with the same
effect as a judgment entered in the superior court within the judicial
district. Upon the docketing, the order may be enforced as a judgment
of the court.
Sec. 7. Subsection (c) of section 16-280b of the general statutes is
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October
1, 2022):
(c) The authority may issue a waiver of any federal safety standards
or any regulations adopted by the authority pursuant to subsection (b)
of this section in individual cases where warranted by local Senate Bill No. 94
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circumstances or conditions, consistent with public safety and
authorized under the federal act.
Sec. 8. Section 16-280c of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2022):
[Each] The federal safety [standard] standards applicable to [pipeline
facilities and] the transportation of gas established under the provisions
of the federal act, contained in 49 CFR 191 to 49 CFR 193, inclusive, and
49 CFR 199, as the same are, from time to time, made effective, or any
regulation adopted by the authority pursuant to subsection (b) or (c) of
section 16-280b, as amended by this act, shall be the standards of the
state.
Sec. 9. Subsection (a) of section 16-280e of the general statutes is
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October
1, 2022):
(a) Any person that violates any provision of the federal act, any
regulation issued under the federal act, any provision of this chapter or
any regulation adopted by the authority pursuant to subsection (b) or
(c) of section 16-280b, as amended by this act, shall be subject to a civil
penalty not to exceed the higher of the maximum civil penalty provided
under 49 USC 60122(a), as amended, or 49 CFR 190.223(a), as amended
from time to time.
Sec. 10. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2022) The utility commissioners,
as defined in section 16-1 of the general statutes, or their designees, shall
have the authority to cause any work performed by any person involved
in the transportation of gas, as such terms are defined in section 16-280a
of the general statutes, to cease immediately if said work may endanger
any person.
Sec. 11. Section 16-354 of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2022): Senate Bill No. 94
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A person, public agency or public utility responsible for excavating,
discharging explosives or demolition shall exercise reasonable care
when working in proximity to the underground facilities of any public
utility and shall comply with such safety standards and other
requirements as the authority shall prescribe by regulations adopted
pursuant to section 16-357. If the facilities are likely to be exposed, such
support shall be provided as may be reasonably necessary for protection
of the facilities. If excavation is within the approximate location of
facilities containing combustible or hazardous fluids or gases, only hand
digging or soft digging shall be employed. As used in this section, "soft
digging" means a nonmechanical and nondestructive process used to
excavate and evacuate soils at a controlled rate, using high pressure
water or air jet to break up the soil, often in conjunction with a high
power vacuum unit to extract the soil without damaging the facilities.
In the event that an immediate life-threatening hazard resulting from a
wilful violation of this chapter, or of such regulations adopted pursuant
to section 16-357, is identified, the utility commissioners, as defined in
section 16-1, or their designees, shall immediately notify the person,
public agency or public utility responsible for excavating, discharging
explosives or demolition of said hazard and violation. Upon receipt of
such notification, the person, public agency or public utility responsible
for excavating, discharging explosives or demolition shall promptly
abate said hazard and violation. In the event that said hazard and
violation is not abated in a reasonable time frame, the utility
commissioners, or their designees, shall have the authority to cause the
excavation, discharge of explosives or demolition to cease immediately
until said hazard and violation have been abated.
Sec. 12. Subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 8-31c of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof
(Effective October 1, 2022):
(a) (1) Wherever the term "regional planning agency" is used in the Senate Bill No. 94
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following general statutes, the term "regional council of governments"
shall be substituted in lieu thereof; and (2) wherever the term "regional
planning agencies" is used in the following general statutes, the term
"regional councils of governments" shall be substituted in lieu thereof:
8-35b, 8-35c, 8-164, 8-166, 8-189, 8-336f, 8-384, 13b-38a, 13b-79ll, 16-32f,
16-50l, [16-358,] 16a-28, 16a-35c, 22-26dd, 22a-102, 22a-118, 22a-137, 22a-
207, 22a-352, 23-8, 25-33e to 25-33h, inclusive, 25-68d, 25-102qq and 25-
233.
Sec. 13. Sections 16-358 and 16-359 of the general statutes are
repealed. (Effective October 1, 2022)