The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may make a grant, within available appropriations, for financial assistance to a municipality for each ton of solid waste generated within its boundaries and delivered to a resources recovery facility operating on June 1, 1987. The amount of the grants shall be (1) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1988, twenty-five per cent of the tipping fee not to exceed ten dollars per ton, and (2) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1989, twelve per cent of the tipping fee not to exceed four dollars per ton. Payment shall be made in one lump sum following the end of each fiscal year. The tipping fee shall be reviewed by the commissioner and shall include but not be limited to any costs associated with debt service or operation from the point the solid waste enters the system to the landfill disposal of its residual and nonprocessable components. The provisions of subsections (b) to (e), inclusive, of section 22a-219b shall apply to grants made under this section.

(P.A. 87-451, S. 2, 5; 87-589, S. 45, 87; P.A. 88-352, S. 5; 88-364, S. 36, 123; P.A. 90-312, S. 7, 11; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 87-589 changed “grants” to “a grant to a municipality”, changed “delivered” to “it delivers” and deleted “or system or to an incinerator”; P.A. 88-352 required payment of grants in one lump sum and made technical changes; P.A. 88-364 made technical changes; P.A. 90-312 changed the commissioner's authority to make grants from mandatory to discretionary and provided that such grants are subject to available appropriations; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.