(a) The commissioner may exempt the manufacture for sale, sale for use or use of an item, product or material containing the compound PCB or the use of the compound PCB for other purposes provided there is no reasonable substitute for the compound PCB in the item, product or material or for the use for other purposes.

(b) Any person intending to manufacture or continue to manufacture for sale, sell for use or continue to sell for use, use or continue to use an item, product or material containing the compound PCB or intending to use or continue to use the compound PCB after July 1, 1977, for uses other than those exempted pursuant to section 22a-465, shall file a request for exemption with the commissioner at least six months prior to the date such use is intended to be initiated or continued.

(c) Each request for exemption shall contain a complete description of the intended use or use of the item, product or material containing the compound PCB or the intended use or use of the compound PCB for other purposes, the amounts of the compound PCB which is intended to be used or is used, the reasons a substitute for the compound PCB cannot be used or is not used and the means by which the discharge of the compound PCB will be or is controlled.

(d) In granting an exemption the commissioner may impose such conditions as he deems appropriate to control the discharge or potential discharge of the compound PCB.

(e) All exemptions shall expire annually on July first. Reapplication for an exemption shall be filed with the commissioner on or before January first of the year when the exemption will expire.

(P.A. 76-389, S. 4, 8.)

History: Sec. 25-54uu transferred to Sec. 22a-466 in 1983.