AN ACT CONCERNING PUBLIC TRUST COMPONENTS OF THE STATE WATER PLAN.


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 427*
*February Session, 2018*		LCO No. 2088
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Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)

AN ACT CONCERNING PUBLIC TRUST COMPONENTS OF THE STATE WATER PLAN.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 22a-15 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

It is hereby found and declared that there is a public trust in the air, water, except private drinking wells, and other natural resources of the state of Connecticut and that each person is entitled to the protection, preservation and enhancement of the same. It is further found and declared that it is in the public interest to provide all persons with an adequate remedy to protect the air, water, except private drinking wells, and other natural resources from unreasonable pollution, impairment or destruction.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	22a-15

Statement of Purpose:

To provide that private drinking wells are not held in the public trust and therefore not subject to regulation by the state water plan.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]