Sec. 22a-223. Funds for preliminary feasibility studies of energy recovery systems or incinerators by governmental entities.
Sec. 22a-223. Funds for preliminary feasibility studies of energy recovery systems or incinerators by governmental entities. The Commissioner of Environmental
Protection may, from proceeds of the sale of state bonds allocated by the State Bond
Commission to the Department of Environmental Protection in accordance with subdivision (8) of subsection (e) of section 2 of special act 82-46, provide funds to any municipality, any group of municipalities, any regional planning agency organized under the
provisions of chapter 127, any regional council of elected officials organized under the
provisions of chapter 50 or any regional council of governments organized under the
provisions of sections 4-124i to 4-124p, inclusive, for a preliminary feasibility study
of an energy recovery system or an incinerator. Any such study shall be prepared in
consultation with said commissioner and shall include but not be limited to an investigation of the markets for the system, identification of the waste stream, cost estimates of
system construction and the cost per ton of solid waste disposal. The amount of such
funds granted for any single study shall not exceed eighty per cent of the total cost of
such study and in no event shall the total amount granted for any single study exceed
twenty-five thousand dollars.
(P.A. 83-151, S. 1, 2.)