Substitute Senate Bill No. 75
Substitute Senate Bill No. 75
PUBLIC ACT NO. 98-184
AN ACT CONCERNING THE POWERS OF THE CONNECTICUT
RESOURCES RECOVERY AUTHORITY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 22a-262 of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is
substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) The purposes of the authority shall be:
(1) The planning, design, construction,
financing, management, ownership, operation and
maintenance of solid waste disposal, volume
reduction, recycling, intermediate processing and
resources recovery facilities and all related
solid waste reception, storage, transportation and
waste-handling and general support facilities
considered by the authority to be necessary,
desirable, convenient or appropriate in carrying
out the provisions of the state solid waste
management plan and in establishing, managing and
operating solid waste disposal and resources
recovery systems and their component
waste-processing facilities and equipment;
(2) The provision of solid waste management
services to municipalities, regions and persons
within the state by receiving solid wastes at
authority facilities, pursuant to contracts
between the authority and such municipalities,
regions and persons; the recovery of resources and
resource values from such solid wastes; and the
production from such services and resources
recovery operations of revenues sufficient to
provide for the support of the authority and its
operations on a self-sustaining basis, with due
allowance for the redistribution of any surplus
revenues to reduce the costs of authority services
to the users thereof PROVIDED SUCH SURPLUS
REVENUES SHALL INCLUDE ANY NET REVENUE FROM
ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISIONS
(18) AND (19) OF SUBSECTION (a) OF SECTION
22a-266, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 2 OF THIS ACT AND
SUBDIVISION (8) OF SECTION 22a-267, AS AMENDED BY
SECTION 3 OF THIS ACT;
(3) The utilization, through contractual
arrangements, of private industry for
implementation of some or all of the requirements
of the state solid waste management plan and for
such other activities as may be considered
necessary, desirable or convenient by the
authority;
(4) Assistance with and coordination of
efforts directed toward source separation for
recycling purposes; and
(5) Assistance in the development of
industries, TECHNOLOGIES and commercial
enterprises within the state of Connecticut based
upon resources recovery, recycling, [and] reuse
AND TREATMENT OR PROCESSING OF SOLID WASTE.
(b) These purposes shall be considered to be
operating responsibilities of the authority, in
accordance with the state solid waste management
plan, and are to be considered in all respects
public purposes. It is the intention of this
chapter that the authority shall be granted all
powers necessary to fulfill these purposes and to
carry out its assigned responsibilities and that
the provisions of this chapter, itself, are to be
construed liberally in furtherance of this
intention.
Sec. 2. Subsection (a) of section 22a-266 of
the general statutes is amended by adding
subdivisions (18) and (19) as follows:
(NEW) (18) Assist in the development of
industries and commercial enterprises and the
planning, design, construction, financing,
management, ownership, operation and maintenance
of systems, facilities and technology within the
state based upon or related to resources recovery,
recycling, reuse, treatment, processing or
disposal of solid waste provided any net revenue
to the authority from activities, contracts,
products or processes undertaken pursuant to this
subdivision shall be distributed so as to reduce
the costs of other authority services to the users
thereof on a pro rata basis proportionate to costs
paid by such users.
(NEW) (19) Act as an electric aggregator
pursuant to public act 98-28 provided any net
revenue to the authority from activities,
contracts, products or processes undertaken
pursuant to this subdivision shall be distributed
so as to reduce the costs of other authority
services to the users thereof on a pro rata basis
proportionate to costs paid by such users.
Sec. 3. Section 22a-267 of the general
statutes is amended by adding subdivision (8) as
follows:
(NEW) (8) Enter into any contractual
arrangement with any person to obtain rights from
or in an invention or product, or the proceeds
therefrom, or rights to any and all forms of
equity instruments, including, but not limited to,
common and preferred stock, warrants, options,
convertible debentures, limited and general
partnership interests and similar types of
instruments, in connection with the development or
operation of any system, facility or technology
based on or related to resources recovery,
recycling, reuse, treatment, processing or
disposal of solid waste provided any net revenue
to the authority from activities, contracts,
products or processes undertaken pursuant to this
subdivision shall be distributed so as to reduce
the costs of other authority services to the users
thereof on a pro rata basis proportionate to costs
paid by such users. Notwithstanding the provisions
of this subdivision, the authority shall not
perform residential or commercial waste collection
services in the state other than services
permitted under the provisions of this chapter
rendered at any landfill, waste disposal, waste
transfer or waste processing facility provided the
authority may otherwise assist in the exercise of
the powers conferred by chapter 103b.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved June 4, 1998