AN ACT CONCERNING RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITIES IN THE STATE.

Plain English Breakdown

The official text does not specify an effective date beyond 'Effective from passage', leaving uncertainty about immediate implementation details.

Study on Fee Suspension for Resource Recovery Facilities

This law creates a working group to study whether the state should stop charging specific fees to certain waste facilities for up to five years.

What This Bill Does

• Creates a new working group inside the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
• Requires the group to examine if suspending specific fees is needed, possible, or helpful.
• Limits any potential fee suspension to no more than five consecutive fiscal years.
• Allows the study to look at other options like state grants or tax breaks instead of fee cuts.
• Mandates a written report be sent to lawmakers by January 1, 2027.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
• Members of the Bristol Resource Recovery Facility Operating Committee towns
• Resource recovery facilities in Connecticut that might face fee changes

Terms To Know

Resource Recovery Facility

A site where waste is processed, often to generate energy or recover materials.

Fee Suspension

Temporarily stopping the requirement for a facility to pay a specific charge to the state.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not automatically stop any fees; it only orders a study on whether to do so.
• No final decision has been made yet about which facilities might get fee relief or how long it would last.
• The law sets a deadline for the report but does not state when future action must happen.

Official Summary Text

To enable the Bristol Resource Recovery Facility to not pay certain fees to the Department of Revenue Services for a five-year period.

Current Bill Text

Substitute Senate Bill No. 317

Special Act No. 26-25

AN ACT CONCERNING RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITIES IN
THE STATE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. ( Effective from passage) The Commissioner of Energy and
Environmental Protection shall convene a working group within the
Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to examine the
need for and viability and impact of suspending, for a period not to
exceed five consecutive fiscal years, the fee described in section 22a-232
of the general statutes for one or more resource recovery facilities in the
state. Such examination may consider other means to meet any such
identified need, including, but not limited to, the ava ilability of state
grant, tax abatement or financing programs. Such working group shall,
at a minimum, consist of one member from each of the member towns
of the Bristol Resource Recovery Facility Operating Committee, the
Commissioner of Energy and Environ mental Protection, or the
commissioner's designee, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and
Management, or the secretary's designee, the Commissioner of
Economic and Community Development, or the commissioner's
designee, and any other member deemed necess ary by the
Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. Not later than
January 1, 2027, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental
Protection shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of
Substitute Senate Bill No. 317

Special Act No. 26-25 2 of 2

section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committee of
the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the
environment on the nature and result of such examination, the
identified need for such a suspension for any such res ource recovery
facility in the state, the availability of other state resources or programs
to meet any such identified need and any legislative recommendations
directly related to such examination.