As used in sections 22a-256y to 22a-256ee, inclusive:

(1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection;

(2) “Department” means the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection;

(3) “Directory publisher” means a person or entity engaged in publishing directories of any kind as part of its business which (A) in the previous calendar year used at least fifty tons of directory stock in directories which were distributed in this state, or (B) anticipates using, in the current calendar year, at least fifty tons of directory stock in directories which are distributed in this state;

(4) “Directory stock” means that class or kind of paper chiefly used for printing directories and weighing more than eighteen pounds but less than twenty-six pounds for five hundred sheets of paper twenty-four inches by thirty-six inches in size, on rolls which are not less than twenty-six inches wide and forty inches in diameter and, for twenty pound white directory stock, having a brightness of less than 57;

(5) “Runability” means the ability of directory stock to run on a printing press using flexography, letterpress and offset printing processes without breaking;

(6) “Recycled fiber” means fiber derived from postconsumer waste paper or waste paper resulting from printing operations;

(7) “Postconsumer waste paper” means discarded paper after it has served its intended use as a consumer item.

(P.A. 90-281, S. 1; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: 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.