The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may require any applicant for a permit issued by the commissioner pursuant to any provision of this title to provide notice of such permit application by posting notice of the application in accordance with this section. Such notice shall not be required for a permit for a transportation project, a permit for the burning of brush pursuant to subsection (f) of section 22a-174, or a permit for any open burning conducted pursuant to authorized fire fighting training by any fire department. The applicant shall erect and maintain in a legible condition a sign not less than six feet by four feet upon the site where the activity which is the subject of the permit application is located or proposed to be located, which sign shall be clearly visible from the public highway and which sign shall be erected not later than three days after the date the applicant receives, by certified mail, written notice to the applicant that notice under this section is required. The sign shall include the words “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Permit Applicant. For further information contact:” and a phone number for an office from which any interested person may obtain a copy of the subject application and information regarding the procedure for making comment on the application. The sign shall be maintained for a period of one hundred twenty days or until the date on which the commissioner publishes notice of his tentative determination on the application, whichever is earlier. Any applicant required to post notice in accordance with this section shall submit to the commissioner a written certification, under oath, of compliance with the requirements of this section provided the commissioner may require any additional proof of such compliance. Such certification shall be on a form specified by the commissioner. Such form shall include certification that notice of such application has also been filed with local municipal officials, including, but not limited to, the chief executive official of the municipality within which the site or proposed site is located, the building official, the zoning enforcement officials, local health officials, and any local environmental commission, committee or officials. The commissioner shall not process an application until the applicant has submitted to the commissioner the certification required by this section. If the commissioner determines that posting notice in accordance with this section will not adequately apprise the public and abutting landowners of the proposed activity, the commissioner may require any other reasonable form of notice he deems necessary.
(P.A. 94-85, S. 1; P.A. 98-216, S. 2, 5; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 98-216 added provision re certification that notice was sent to local municipal officials, effective June 1, 1998; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” and “Department of Environmental Protection” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection” and “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.