Sec. 22a-445. (Formerly Sec. 25-54y). Commissioner to accept federal aid. Cooperation with other agencies, municipalities, states.
Sec. 22a-445. (Formerly Sec. 25-54y). Commissioner to accept federal aid. Cooperation with other agencies, municipalities, states. The Commissioner of Environmental Protection is designated as the administrative agency of the state to apply for
and accept any funds or other aid and to cooperate and enter into contracts and
agreements with the federal government relating to the planning, developing, maintaining and enforcing of the program to provide clean water and pollution abatement
of the waters of the state, or for any other related purpose which the Congress of the
United States has authorized or may authorize. The commissioner is authorized in the
name of the state to make such applications, sign such documents, give such assurances
and do such other things as are necessary to obtain such aid from or cooperate with the
United States or any agency thereof. The commissioner may enter into contracts and
agreements and cooperate with any other state agency, municipality, person or other
state when the same is necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. Such contracts
shall be subject to the approval of the Attorney General as to form.
(1967, P.A. 57, S. 24; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 99.)
History: 1971 act replaced references to water resources commission with references to environmental protection
commissioner; Sec. 25-54y transferred to Sec. 22a-445 in 1983.