(a) The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, in consultation with the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority and the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, shall prepare a plan for the support and promotion of industries that use, process or transport recycled materials. The plan shall outline ways existing programs of the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority and agencies such as the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated will be used to promote such industries.

(b) Such plan shall be completed on or before July 1, 2007.

(P.A. 88-231, S. 6; P.A. 89-130, S. 3, 4; 89-245, S. 5; P.A. 93-382, S. 18, 69; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 06-27, S. 1; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 155; P.A. 14-94, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 89-130 extended time for completion of the plan from March 1, 1989, to July 1, 1989, and extended time for initial report to the municipal solid waste recycling advisory council from August 1, 1989, to December 1, 1989; P.A. 89-245 amended Subsec. (a) to rename Connecticut Product Development Corporation as Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated; P.A. 93-382 amended Subsec. (b) to delete requirement that reports be submitted to the environment committee, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Economic Development with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; P.A. 06-27 amended Subsec. (a) to add provisions re Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority, Commissioner and Department of Environmental Protection and Connecticut Development Authority, to delete provision re plan preparation deadline and update and to change provision re industries that use recycled materials to those that “use, process or transport recycled materials” and amended Subsec. (b) to extend time for completion of plan from July 1, 1989, to July 1, 2007, and to delete provision re implementation report, effective May 8, 2006; 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; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 deleted “the Connecticut Development Authority” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2012; pursuant to P.A. 14-94, “Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority”, effective June 6, 2014.