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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5352
February Session, 2024
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Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT CONCERNING MINOR REVISIONS TO THE TIRE
STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsections (d) and (e) of section 22a-905i of the 2024 1
supplement to the general statutes are repealed and the following is 2
substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage): 3
(d) Each stewardship organization shall establish and implement a 4
system for financing the tire stewardship program that covers [, but 5
does not exceed,] the costs of developing the plan described in 6
subsection (c) of this section, operating and administering the program 7
described in subsection (b) of this section and maintaining a financial 8
reserve for six months sufficient to operate such program. Each 9
stewardship organization shall maintain all records relating to the tire 10
stewardship program for a period of not less than three years. Funding 11
of such program may be through a fee structure. 12
(e) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall 13
approve a plan for the establishment of a tire stewardship program, 14 Bill No. 5352
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provided such plan meets the requirements of subsections (b) to (d), 15
inclusive, of this section. Prior to making any such determination, the 16
commissioner shall post the plan on the Department of Energy and 17
Environmental Protection's Internet web site and solicit public 18
comments on the plan. Such solicitation shall not be conducted pursuant 19
to chapter 54. Not later than ninety days after submission of the plan 20
pursuant to this section, the commissioner shall make a determination 21
whether to approve the plan. In the event that the commissioner 22
disapproves the plan because it does not meet the requirements of 23
subsections (b) to (d), inclusive, of this section, the commissioner shall 24
describe the reasons for the disapproval in a notice of determination that 25
the commissioner shall provide to the tire stewardship organization. 26
Such tire stewardship organization shall revise and resubmit the plan to 27
the commissioner not later than forty-five days after receipt of the 28
commissioner's notice of disapproval. Not later than forty-five days 29
after receipt of the revised plan, the commissioner shall review and 30
approve or disapprove the revised plan and provide a notice of 31
determination to the tire stewardship organization. Such stewardship 32
organization may resubmit a revised plan to the commissioner for 33
approval on not more than two occasions. If the tire stewardship 34
organization fails to submit a plan that is acceptable to the commissioner 35
because it does not meet the requirements of subsections (b) to (d), 36
inclusive, of this section, the commissioner shall modify a submitted 37
plan to make it conform to the requirements of subsections (b) to (d), 38
inclusive, of this section and approve it. Not later than one hundred 39
[twenty] eighty days after the approval of a plan pursuant to this 40
section, the tire stewardship organization shall implement the tire 41
stewardship program. 42
Sec. 2. Subsection (q) of section 22a-905i of the 2024 supplement to the 43
general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 44
thereof (Effective from passage): 45
(q) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may 46
assess a reasonable fee to any tire stewardship organization, not to 47 Bill No. 5352
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exceed [ten] five per cent of total program costs, for administration of 48
the applicable tire stewardship program. 49
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage 22a-905i(d) and (e)
Sec. 2 from passage 22a-905i(q)
ENV Joint Favorable