(a) In each municipality where a hazardous waste facility is proposed to be located, there may be established a local project review committee consisting of not less than four and not more than nine members, all but one of whom shall be electors from the municipality where the facility is proposed to be located. The remaining member shall be an elector from the municipality likely to be most affected by the proposed facility which municipality shall be named by the council after the receipt of an application for a certificate. The commissioner shall notify the council and the chief elected official of the municipality where the facility is proposed to be located upon receipt of an application for licenses, permits or approvals necessary to establish a hazardous waste facility. The council shall send to the chief elected official a copy of the provisions of the general statutes for the establishment of a local project review committee along with a copy of the notification sent by the commissioner. After notification, the chief elected official may appoint members to such committee. All members shall be appointed by the chief elected official of the municipality that they represent.

(b) Upon filing of an application with the council, the applicant shall deposit with the council a sum determined by the council but not exceeding fifty thousand dollars to be disbursed by the council to the local project review committee for the sole use of obtaining technical and professional assistance for such committee's review of the proposed hazardous waste facility. Such assistance may include environmental, scientific, economic, financial and legal assistance.

(P.A. 81-369, S. 15, 20; P.A. 89-146, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 89-146 amended Subsec. (a) to require the commissioner of environmental protection to notify the siting council of receipt of hazardous waste facility application and to require the siting council to send the chief executive officer of the municipality in which such facility is proposed a copy of provisions of general statutes re local project review committees and a copy of notice sent by commissioner and amended Subsec. (b) to authorize use of funds for environmental, scientific, economic, financial and legal assistance and to increase amount of maximum deposit from $30,000 to 50,000.

Cited. 207 C. 706.