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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 226 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 420 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2025 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 226 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY |
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| 13 | 13 | | Introduced by: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SEN. ANWAR, 3rd Dist. |
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| 18 | 18 | | AN ACT CONCERNING MORATORIA AND NOISE AUDITS FOR |
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| 19 | 19 | | COMMERCIAL SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC FACILITIES. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 21 | 21 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 23 | 23 | | That the general statutes be amended to (1) allow any municipality 1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | with three or more existing commercial solar photovoltaic facilities 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | located within such municipality to impose a moratorium on the 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | construction or installation of such facilities within such municipality, 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | which moratorium shall be binding on the Connecticut Siting Council, 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | provided such municipality requires a public hearing and an 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | environmental impact study concerning such moratorium, (2) allow any 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | municipality to conduct a noise audit and adopt increased penalties for 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | noise violations at any commercial solar photovoltaic facility within 9 |
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| 32 | 32 | | such municipality, and (3) require that any developer, owner or 10 |
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| 33 | 33 | | manager of a commercial solar photovoltaic facility provide a 11 |
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| 34 | 34 | | community point of contact concerning the operation of such facility. 12 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 36 | 36 | | To (1) allow municipalities with three or more existing commercial solar |
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| 37 | 37 | | photovoltaic facilities located within such municipality to impose a Proposed Bill No. 420 |
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| 40 | 40 | | LCO No. 226 2 of 2 |
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| 42 | 42 | | moratorium on the construction or installation of such facilities within |
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| 43 | 43 | | such municipality, (2) allow municipalities to conduct noise audits and |
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| 44 | 44 | | impose penalties for noise violations at commercial solar photovoltaic |
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| 45 | 45 | | facilities, and (3) require that any developer, owner or manager of a |
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| 46 | 46 | | commercial solar photovoltaic facility provide a community point of |
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| 47 | 47 | | contact concerning the operation of such facility. |
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