Chapter 277a. Public Utility Environmental Standards Act  


Sec. 16-50g. Legislative finding and purpose.
Sec. 16-50h. Short title.
Sec. 16-50i. Definitions.
Sec. 16-50j. Connecticut Siting Council. Membership. Regulations. Consultation with state agencies.
Sec. 16-50k. Certificate of environmental compatibility and public need. Transfer. Amendment. Excepted matters. Waiver.
Sec. 16-50l. Application for certificate. Notice. Application or resolution for amendment of certificate. Consultation with municipality.
Sec. 16-50m. Public hearing. Notice.
Sec. 16-50n. Parties to a certification or amendment proceeding or a declaratory ruling. Grouping of parties. Intervenors. Counsel and consultant to council. Limited appearances.
Sec. 16-50o. Record of hearing. Rights of parties. Administrative notice re electromagnetic fields.
Sec. 16-50p. Certification proceeding decisions: Timing, opinion, factors considered. Telecommunications and community antenna television facilities: Additional factors considered, conditions. Modification of location. Amendment proceeding decisions. Service and notice. “Public need” defined. Civil action by Attorney General.
Sec. 16-50q. Judicial review.
Sec. 16-50r. Report of forecast of loads and resources. Confidential information. Regulations. Investigation of life-cycle costs for overhead and underground transmission lines: Scope, hearings, consultants, assessment.
Sec. 16-50s. Expenditures by utilities as consideration in proceedings.
Sec. 16-50t. Regulations and standards. Hearing. Certain expenditures excluded in computation of fair net return.
Sec. 16-50u. Enforcement of certificate and standards requirements.
Sec. 16-50v. Administration expenses. Assessments. Fees. Staff. Consultants. Late fees.
Sec. 16-50w. Conflicting provisions.
Sec. 16-50x. Exclusive jurisdiction of council; exception. Eminent domain after certification. Municipal regulation of proposed location.
Sec. 16-50y. Location application for electric generating facilities.
Sec. 16-50z. Acquisition of real property for transmission facility. Regulations. Public service company acquisition of residential real property by condemnation.
Sec. 16-50aa. Tower sharing: Policy, requests, feasibility proceeding, compensation, expenses.
Sec. 16-50bb. Municipal participation account.
Sec. 16-50cc. Reconfiguration or burial of electric transmission facility.
Sec. 16-50dd. State-wide telecommunications coverage data base.
Sec. 16-50ee. State-wide telecommunications coverage plan.
Sec. 16-50ff. Local telecommunications coverage assessments.
Sec. 16-50gg. Municipal location preferences.
Sec. 16-50hh. Restoration and revegetation of the right-of-way.
Sec. 16-50ii. Electric generating facility: Flammable gas to clean piping prohibited; requirements prior to issuance of certificate to build. Penalty.
Sec. 16-50jj. Meeting conducted during construction of electric generating facility.
Sec. 16-50kk. Regulations re wind-powered generation.
Sec. 16-50ll. Annual report re backup power for telecommunications towers and antennas during electric service outages. Study re feasibility of backup power requirements.

Notations

*Applicability of chapter discussed. 165 C. 687. Cited. 177 C. 623, 624; 180 C. 474, 477; 212 C. 157; 215 C. 474; 220 C. 516.

Cited. 20 CA 474; 37 CA 653, 662; judgment reversed, see 238 C. 361.

Attempted taking of easement for future facility where procedure prescribed by chapter was not followed was an abuse of plaintiff's powers of eminent domain. 35 CS 303.