• The authority's board of directors consists of 11 directors appointed by the governor and legislative leaders. The governor appoints three directors and the Senate president pro tempore, the House speaker, the Senate minority leader and House minority leader two each.

• Three directors must represent towns with a population of fewer than 50,000 and two must represent towns with populations greater than 50,000.

• Five members represent the public. Three of these must have extensive, high-level experience in finance, business or industry; one must have high-level, extensive experience in an environmental field and one must have high-level, extensive experience in an energy field.

• Directors serve four-year terms and must be confirmed by both houses. The governor designates one member to serve as chairman, with the advice and consent of both houses. The chairman serves at the governor's pleasure.

• The Governor may appoint, at the request of a municipality where a facility operated by the authority is located, an ad hoc member from that municipality to represent that facility, provided at least half such members are chief elected officials of municipalities, or their designees. Each facility must be represented by two ad hoc members. Ad hoc members serve four-year terms, and may vote only on matters concerning the facility.

• CRRA plans, designs, builds, and operates solid waste disposal, volume reduction, recycling, intermediate processing, and resources recovery facilities. The chairman appoints the president of the authority, who supervises the authority's administrative affairs and technical activities. The authority is a quasi-public agency.

1. Are there specific issues with the Mid-Connecticut project you would like CRRA to address?

2. Inner-city residents believe they have historically been overburdened by the siting of landfills and incinerators in their neighborhoods. What should CRRA do to alleviate this?

3. The Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) amended Solid Waste Management Plan calls for increasing the state's recycling rate, which has held at 30 % for a number of years, to 58% by 2024. Do you think this is a feasible goal? What can CRRA do to help achieve this rate, and what are you doing now to promote recycling?

4. DEP's plan also calls for the state to develop a plan to recycle electronic waste, such as computers and televisions. CRRA has also said it favors such a plan. How do you believe such a plan should be financed? Do you favor a one-time advance recycling fee paid at the point of retail purchase, such as has been adopted in California, or one that would place more responsibility on manufacturers, such as DEP proposes? Should such recycling include cell phones and other smaller electronics?

5. The DEP plan also calls for adding #1 (PET) and #2 (HDPE) plastics and magazines to the list of mandated recyclables, and expanding the bottle bill to include water bottles. What is your position?

6. Do you favor increasing the current nickel bottle deposit to 10 cents?

7. Under current law, unclaimed bottle deposits return to distributors. There have been many attempts to direct that money to the state instead. Where do you believe that money should go and how should it be distributed?

8. Can you briefly tell us the status of CRRA's deliberations about replacing its Wallingford resources recovery facility with a transfer station? How would CRRA compensate Wallingford for the station?

9. Do you anticipate CRRA increasing or decreasing its tipping fee at the Mid-Connecticut Project? On what would that depend?

10. Legislation has been introduced in previous years that would have allowed CRRA to spend proportionally more money on outside consultants as its full-time staff decreased, and less money on consultants if its full time staff grew. What are your current staffing needs?

11. What's the best and safest way to dispose of ash generated by CRRA facilities?

12. The Metropolitan District Commission last year proposed creating a 6. 25 million square foot riverfront development on land currently used for CRRA's Mid-Connecticut trash-to-energy project and building a new trash-to-energy plant. What is your position on that idea?

13. What do you think of the concept of single source recycling?