(a) Any person, firm or corporation, other than a municipality, making an application for any approval required by chapters 124, 126, 440 and 444 or by regulations adopted pursuant to said chapters shall pay a fee of twenty dollars, in addition to any other fee which may be required, to the municipal agency or legislative body which is authorized to approve the application. On and after October 1, 2009, the fee shall be sixty dollars. Such municipal agency or legislative body shall collect such fees, retaining two dollars of such fee for administrative costs, and shall pay the remainder of such fees quarterly to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the receipts shall be deposited into the General Fund.
(b) Not later than three months following the close of each fiscal year starting with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall identify those municipalities that are not in compliance with subsection (a) of this section for the previous fiscal year and shall provide the Office of Policy and Management with a list of such municipalities. The list shall be submitted annually and in such manner as the Office of Policy and Management may require. The Office of Policy and Management, when issuing the first payment from the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund established pursuant to section 3-55i, in the fiscal year during which said list is received, shall reduce said payment to a municipality by one thousand dollars for each quarter of the preceding fiscal year that the municipality has not been in compliance with subsection (a) of this section to a maximum of four thousand dollars in each fiscal year.
(c) Following the close of each fiscal year starting with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall certify to the Comptroller the amount of any funds withheld under subsection (b) of this section and the Comptroller shall cause such amount to be deposited into the General Fund.
(P.A. 92-235, S. 4, 6; P.A. 93-86; P.A. 00-102, S. 1, 2; 00-196, S. 61; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 108; P.A. 04-144, S. 6; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 396; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 14-217, S. 45.)
History: P.A. 93-86 amended section to provide that funds and receipts shall be paid to environmental protection department and deposited into account of the state treasurer and credited to the environmental quality fund, replacing provision whereby fees were to be paid to state treasurer and deposited by him in conservation fund; P.A. 00-102 designated existing language as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re withholding of funds to municipalities not in compliance with section, effective May 26, 2000; P.A. 00-196 deleted former Subsec. (b) and added new Subsec. (b), making technical changes and providing that list be submitted annually not later than three months following close of each fiscal year starting with fiscal year July 1, 2000; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 amended Subsec. (a) to increase application fee from $10 to $20, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 04-144 amended Subsec. (a) by applying fee to applications filed pursuant to regulations adopted under enumerated chapters, increasing fees from $20 to $30 and amount retained by municipalities from $1 to $2 and providing that $19 be used for funding environmental review teams program and $9 be deposited in hazard mitigation and floodplain management account and used for grants under Sec. 25-68k, and amended Subsec. (b) by increasing the reduction to municipalities not in compliance in the fiscal year the list is received from $500 to $1,000 and increasing the maximum reduction for the preceding fiscal year from $2,000 to $4,000, effective July 1, 2004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 amended Subsec. (a) by increasing fee from $30 to $60 and by replacing former provisions re deposit and use of fees with provision requiring such fee be deposited in General Fund, and amended Subsec. (b) by deleting provision re transfer of funds to Environmental Quality Fund; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 14-217 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to fee on and after July 1, 2004, amended Subsec. (b) to make technical changes and added Subsec. (c) re certification and deposit of withheld funds, effective July 1, 2014.