(a) As used in this section and sections 13b-57f, 13b-57h, 13b-212d and 14-270e:

(1) “Department” means the Department of Transportation;

(2) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Transportation;

(3) “TIA corridor plan” means a twenty-year strategic plan for transportation in a corridor and any updates or other revisions to such plan;

(4) “Transportation project” means any planning, capital or operating project with regard to transportation undertaken by the state;

(5) “Local planning agency” means a metropolitan planning organization, as provided in 23 USC 134, or a council, as defined in subdivision (4) of section 4-124i;

(6) “TIA” means transportation investment area;

(7) “Coastal corridor” and “coastal corridor TIA” means the following towns and the roads, highways, bridges, waterways, ports and airports in such towns: Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Bethel, Bethlehem, Branford, Bridgeport, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Cheshire, Danbury, Darien, Derby, East Haven, Easton, Fairfield, Greenwich, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Meriden, Middlebury, Milford, Monroe, Naugatuck, New Canaan, New Fairfield, New Haven, New Milford, Newtown, North Branford, North Haven, Norwalk, Orange, Oxford, Prospect, Redding, Ridgefield, Seymour, Shelton, Sherman, Southbury, Stamford, Stratford, Thomaston, Trumbull, Wallingford, Waterbury, Watertown, West Haven, Weston, Westport, Wilton, Wolcott, Woodbridge and Woodbury;

(8) “I-84 corridor” and “I-84 TIA” means the following towns and the roads, highways, bridges, waterways, ports and airports in such towns: Andover, Ansonia, Avon, Barkhamsted, Beacon Falls, Berlin, Bethel, Bethlehem, Bloomfield, Bolton, Bridgewater, Bristol, Brookfield, Burlington, Canaan, Canton, Cheshire, Colebrook, Cornwall, Danbury, Derby, East Granby, East Hartford, East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Farmington, Glastonbury, Goshen, Granby, Hartford, Hartland, Harwinton, Hebron, Kent, Litchfield, Manchester, Marlborough, Middlebury, Morris, Naugatuck, New Britain, New Fairfield, New Hartford, New Milford, Newington, Newtown, Norfolk, North Canaan, Oxford, Plainville, Plymouth, Prospect, Redding, Ridgefield, Rocky Hill, Roxbury, Salisbury, Seymour, Sharon, Shelton, Sherman, Simsbury, Somers, South Windsor, Southbury, Southington, Stafford, Suffield, Thomaston, Tolland, Torrington, Union, Vernon, Warren, Washington, Waterbury, Watertown, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Winchester, Windsor, Windsor Locks, Wolcott and Woodbury;

(9) “I-91 corridor” and “I-91 TIA” means the following towns and the roads, highways, bridges, waterways, ports and airports in such towns: Andover, Avon, Berlin, Bethany, Bloomfield, Bolton, Branford, Bristol, Burlington, Canton, Chester, Clinton, Cromwell, Deep River, Durham, East Granby, East Haddam, East Hampton, East Hartford, East Haven, East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Essex, Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Guilford, Haddam, Hamden, Hartford, Hebron, Killingworth, Lyme, Madison, Manchester, Marlborough, Meriden, Middlefield, Middletown, Milford, New Britain, New Haven, Newington, North Branford, North Haven, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, Orange, Plainville, Plymouth, Portland, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, Somers, South Windsor, Southington, Suffield, Tolland, Vernon, Wallingford, West Hartford, West Haven, Westbrook, Wethersfield, Windsor, Windsor Locks and Woodbridge;

(10) “I-395 corridor” and “I-395 TIA” means the following towns and the roads, highways, bridges, waterways, ports and airports in such towns: Ashford, Bozrah, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Colchester, Columbia, Coventry, East Lyme, Eastford, Franklin, Griswold, Groton, Hampton, Killingly, Lebanon, Ledyard, Lisbon, Mansfield, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Norwich, Plainfield, Pomfret, Preston, Putnam, Salem, Scotland, Sprague, Stafford, Sterling, Stonington, Thompson, Union, Voluntown, Waterford, Willington, Windham and Woodstock;

(11) “Southeast corridor” and “Southeast corridor TIA” means the following towns and the roads, highways, bridges, waterways, ports and airports in such towns: Bozrah, Chester, Clinton, Colchester, Deep River, East Lyme, Essex, Franklin, Griswold, Groton, Killingworth, Ledyard, Lisbon, Lyme, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Norwich, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, Preston, Salem, Sprague, Stonington, Voluntown, Waterford and Westbrook; and

(12) “Modal” means a mode of transportation, and “multimodal” means two or more modes of transportation.

(b) As used in this subsection and sections 13b-57h, 13b-212d and 14-270e:

(1) “TSB project” means any planning, capital or operating project recommended by the Transportation Strategy Board prior to its repeal by public act 11-61*;

(2) “Economic development plan” means a comprehensive plan describing (A) existing economic development projects, and (B) proposed economic development projects for which a letter of commitment has been issued by the Department of Economic and Community Development; and

(3) “Economic development project” means any project, as defined in subsection (d) of section 32-23d, which is to be used or occupied by any person for (A) manufacturing, industrial, research, office or product warehousing or distribution purposes or hydroponic or aquaponic food production purposes and which the authority determines will tend to maintain or provide gainful employment, maintain or increase the tax base of the economy, or maintain, expand or diversify industry in the state, or (B) controlling, abating, preventing or disposing land, water, air or other environmental pollution, including without limitation thermal, radiation, sewage, wastewater, solid waste, toxic waste, noise or particulate pollution, except resources recovery facilities, as defined in section 22a-219a, used for the principal purpose of processing municipal solid waste and which are not expansions or additions to resources recovery facilities operating on July 1, 1990, or (C) the conservation of energy or the utilization of cogeneration technology or solar, wind, hydro, biomass or other renewable sources to produce energy for any industrial or commercial application, or (D) any other purpose which the authority determines will materially contribute to the economic base of the state by creating or retaining jobs, promoting the export of products or services beyond state boundaries, encouraging innovation in products or services, or otherwise contributing to, supporting or enhancing existing activities that are important to the economic base of the state.

(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-5, S. 1, 18; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-4, S. 1, 2; P.A. 04-143, S. 12; P.A. 06-136, S. 29; P.A. 11-61, S. 22; P.A. 13-247, S. 289; 13-277, S. 70; 13-299, S. 12; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3, S. 114.)

*Note: Public act 11-61 is entitled “An Act Implementing the Revenue Items In the Budget and Making Budget Adjustments, Deficiency Appropriations, Certain Revisions to Bills of the Current Session and Miscellaneous Changes to the General Statutes”. (See Reference Table captioned “Public Acts of 2011” in Volume 16 which lists the sections amended, created or repealed by the act.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-5 effective July 2, 2001; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-4 redefined “strategy” and defined “TSB project”, “economic development plan” and “economic development project”, effective August 20, 2003; (Revisor's note: Section 2 of public act 03-4 of the June 30 special session, effective August 20, 2003, was added editorially by the Revisors as Subsec. (b) and the existing provisions were designated as Subsec. (a)); P.A. 04-143 made a technical change in Subsec. (a)(4), effective May 21, 2004; P.A. 06-136 amended Subsec. (a)(4) by updating reference to report submitted pursuant to Sec. 13b-57g to conform to legislative changes, effective July 1, 2006 (Revisor's note: In 2009, a reference to “subsection (b) of section 4-124i” in Subsec. (a)(7) was changed editorially by the Revisors to “subdivision (2) of section 4-124i” to conform section with Sec. 4-124i, as amended by P.A. 08-182); P.A. 11-61 amended Subsec. (a) to delete former Subdiv. (1) re definition of “board”, redesignate existing Subdivs. (2) and (3) as Subdivs. (1) and (2), delete former Subdiv. (4) re definition of “strategy”, redesignate existing Subdivs. (5) to (14) as Subdivs. (3) to (12), and redefine “transportation project” in Subdiv. (4), and amended Subsec. (b)(1) to redefine “TSB project”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-247 amended Subsec. (a)(5) by deleting references to regional planning agency, regional council of elected officials and council as defined in Sec. 4-124c(f), making conforming changes, and replacing reference to Sec. 4-124i(2) with reference to Sec. 4-124i(4), effective January 1, 2015; P.A. 13-277 amended Subsec. (a) by adding reference to Sec. 13b-11c(d), effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-299 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting reference to Sec. 13b-11a(e), effective July 1, 2013; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting reference to Sec. 13b-11c(d), effective July 1, 2016.