Sec. 22a-260. (Formerly Sec. 19-524s). Definitions.
Sec. 22a-260. (Formerly Sec. 19-524s). Definitions. The following terms, as used
in this chapter and chapter 103b, shall have the indicated meanings unless the context
in which they are used demands a different meaning and intent:
(1) "Authority" means the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority created and
established pursuant to this chapter or any board, body, commission, department, officer,
agency or other successor thereto;
(2) "State solid waste management plan" means the administrative and financial
plan developed by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection for solid waste disposal and resources recovery, pursuant to section 22a-211;
(3) "Resources recovery" means the processing of solid wastes to reclaim energy
therefrom;
(4) "Recycling" means the processing of solid waste to reclaim material therefrom;
(5) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, association, limited liability
company or corporation, public or private, organized or existing under the laws of the
state or any other state, including federal corporations, but excluding municipalities,
special districts having taxing powers or other political subdivisions of the state;
(6) "Waste management services" means actions taken to effectuate the receipt,
storage, transportation and processing for resources recovery, recycling, reuse of recovered materials, or disposal of solid wastes, including the sale of products, materials or
energy on behalf of the state, a region, a municipality or a person by the authority or by
any person or persons acting under contract with the authority, pursuant to the provisions
of this chapter;
(7) "Solid waste" means unwanted or discarded solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous material, including but not limited to, demolition debris, material burned or
otherwise processed at a resources recovery facility or incinerator, material processed
at a recycling facility and sludges or other residue from a water pollution abatement
facility, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility;
(8) "Solid waste facility" means any solid waste disposal area, volume reduction
plant, transfer station, wood burning facility, or biomedical waste treatment facility;
(9) "Solid waste disposal area" means any location, including a landfill or other
land disposal site, used for the disposal of more than ten cubic yards of solid waste;
(10) "Volume reduction plant" means any location or structure, whether located on
land or water, where more than two thousand pounds per hour of solid waste generated
elsewhere may be reduced in volume, including but not limited to, resources recovery
facilities and other incinerators, recycling facilities, pulverizers, compactors, shredders,
balers and composting facilities;
(11) "Resources recovery facility" means a facility utilizing processes aimed at
reclaiming the material or energy values from solid wastes;
(12) "Transfer station" means any location or structure, whether located on land or
water, where more than ten cubic yards of solid waste, generated elsewhere, may be
stored for transfer or transferred from transportation units and placed in other transportation units for movement to another location, whether or not such waste is stored at the
location prior to transfer;
(13) "Recycling facility" or "recycling center" means land and appurtenances
thereon and structures where recycling is conducted, including but not limited to, an
intermediate processing center as defined in this section;
(14) "Solid waste planning region" means those municipalities or parts thereof
within or forming an area defined in the state solid waste management plan;
(15) "Municipality" means any town, city or borough within the state;
(16) "Municipal authority" means the local governing body having legal jurisdiction over solid waste management within its corporate limits which shall be, in the case
of any municipality which adopts a charter provision or ordinance pursuant to section
7-273aa, the municipal resource recovery authority;
(17) "Region" means two or more municipalities which have joined together by
creating a district or signing an interlocal agreement or signing a mutual contract for a
definite period of time concerning solid waste management within such municipalities;
(18) "Regional authority" means the administrative body delegated the responsibility for solid waste management in a region;
(19) "Bonds" means bonds of the authority issued pursuant to the provisions of this
chapter and the authorizing resolutions of said authority;
(20) "Notes" means notes of the authority issued pursuant to this chapter and the
resolutions of the authority, either in anticipation of and pending the issuance of bonds
by said authority or otherwise;
(21) "Revenues" means moneys or income received by the authority in whatever
form, including but not limited to fees, charges, lease payments, interest payments on
investments, payments due and owing on account of any instrument, contract or
agreement between the authority and any municipality, region, state agency or person,
gifts, grants, bestowals or any other moneys or payments to which the authority is entitled
under the provisions of this chapter or any other law, or of any agreement, contract or
indenture of the authority;
(22) "Waste management project" means any solid waste disposal and resources
recovery area, plant, works, system, facility or component of a facility, equipment,
machinery or other element of a facility which the authority is authorized to plan, design,
finance, construct, manage, operate or maintain under the provisions of this chapter,
including real estate and improvements thereto and the extension or provision of utilities
and other appurtenant facilities deemed necessary by the authority for the operation of
a project or portion of a project, including all property rights, easements and interests
required;
(23) "Solid waste management system" means that portion of the overall state solid
waste management plan specifically designed to deal with the provision of waste management services and to effect resources recovery and recycling by means of a network
of waste management projects and resources recovery facilities developed, established
and operated by the authority by contract or otherwise, but not embracing or including
any regulatory or enforcement activities of the Department of Environmental Protection
in accordance with applicable provisions of the general statutes and as may be referred
to in the state solid waste management plan as developed and promulgated by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection;
(24) "Costs" means the cost or fair market value, as determined by the authority, of
construction, lands, property rights, utility extensions, disposal facilities, access roads,
easements, franchises, financing charges, interest, engineering and legal services, plans,
specifications, surveys, cost estimates, studies, transportation and other expenses necessary or incidental to the design, development, construction, financing, management and
operation and maintenance of a waste management project, and such other costs or
expenses of the authority, including administrative and operating costs, research and
development, and operating capital, including fees, charges, loans, insurances, and the
expense of purchasing real and personal property, including waste management projects;
(25) "Intermediate processing facility" means a facility where glass, metals, paper
products, batteries, household hazardous waste, fertilizers and other items are removed
from the waste stream for recycling or reuse.
(P.A. 73-459, S. 4, 26; P.A. 79-605, S. 15, 17; P.A. 81-213, S. 2, 18; P.A. 87-489, S. 13, 14; P.A. 89-386, S. 7, 24; P.A.
91-55, S. 2; P.A. 95-79, S. 99, 189.)
History: P.A. 79-605 rephrased definition of "solid waste"; P.A. 81-213 redefined "municipal authority" in Subsec.
(n) to include municipal resource recovery authorities under chapter 103b and extended applicability of definitions to that
chapter; Sec. 19-524s transferred to Sec. 22a-260 in 1983 and alphabetic Subdiv. indicators replaced editorially by the
Revisors with numeric indicators; P.A. 87-489 added Subdiv. (23) defining "intermediate processing facility" and redefined
"solid waste facility" to include such intermediate facilities; P.A. 89-386 redefined "resources recovery", "recycling",
"waste management services", "solid waste", "solid waste facility", "solid waste disposal area", "volume reduction plant",
"solid waste management system" and "intermediate processing facility", added definitions of "transfer station", "recycling
facility" and "recycling center" and renumbered the terms accordingly; P.A. 91-55 rephrased the definition of "solid waste"
and broadened the definitions of "volume reduction plant", "solid waste disposal area" and "transfer station"; P.A. 95-79
redefined "person" to include a limited liability company, effective May 31, 1995.
Subdiv. (11):
Cited. 210 C. 349.
Subdiv. (18):
Cited. 218 C. 821.