Conn. Agencies Regs. § 22a-1a-1 - Definitions
As used in Sections 22a-1a-1 to 22a-1a-12, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:
(1) "Act" means the Connecticut
Environmental Policy Act, Sections 22a-1 to 22a-1h, inclusive, of the
Connecticut General Statutes.
(2)
"Action" means an individual activity or a sequence of planned
activities initiated or proposed to be undertaken by an agency or agencies, or
funded in whole or in part by the state. "Actions" include, but are not limited
to, capital improvements, alterations, or additions to the real property of the
state; acquisition of real property for the purpose of capital improvements;
lease/purchase agreements; grants-in-aid or financial assistance for housing,
business, industry, restoration or demonstration projects; or other proposed
activity for which an agency exercises judgment or discretion as to the
propriety of that action.
(3)
"Action which may significantly affect the environment" has the
same meaning as provided in section 22a-1c of the Act.
(4) "CEPA regulations" means
sections 22a-1a-1 to
22a-1a-12,
inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
(5) "Environment" means the
physical, biological, social, and economic surroundings and conditions which
exist within an area which may be affected by an action including, but not
limited to, land, air, water, soils, minerals, flora, fauna, noise, objects of
historic or aesthetic significance and community or neighborhood
characteristics.
(6)
"Environmental classification document" means a document created
in accordance with section
22a-1a-4
of the CEPA regulations.
(7)
"Environmental Impact Evaluation" means a detailed written
document describing and evaluating the environmental impacts of an action
prepared in accordance with section
22a-1a-8
of the CEPA regulations.
(8)
"Environmental Monitor" means an electronic publication maintained
and published in accordance with section 22a-1b of the Act.
(9) "Environmental review
checklist" means the form established by the Commissioner of Energy and
Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Secretary of the Office of
Policy and Management, used to determine whether an action or category of
action requires public scoping or to record an agency's initial assessment of
the direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental effects of an action at the
completion of public scoping.
(10)
"Environmental review document" means any document prepared by, or
under the direct supervision of, a sponsoring agency and published in the
Environmental Monitor in accordance with section 22a-1b(d)(1) of the
Act.
(11) "Post-scoping
notice" means the environmental review document prepared by a sponsoring
agency in accordance with section
22a-1a-7
of the CEPA regulations.
(12)
"Public scoping" means the process for soliciting public and
agency comments on a state agency action or the proposed site of such action,
on alternatives to the action or the proposed site of such action, and on the
scope of issues to be addressed in an environmental impact evaluation of an
action if such an evaluation is determined to be necessary by the sponsoring
agency.
(13)"Significant
environmental effect" means consequences of an action determined to have
or potentially have a major impact on the environment in accordance with
section
22a-1a-3
of the CEPA regulations.
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