Conn. Agencies Regs. § 22a-1a-5 - Adoption and amendment of agency -specific environmental classification documents
(a) Each agency
developing a new or amended environmental classification document shall make
such document available to the Office of Policy and Management, the Department
of Energy and Environmental Protection, the Council on Environmental Quality,
other appropriate governmental agencies, and any other interested person as
determined by the preparing agency or the Office of Policy and
Management.
(b) The agency
developing such a new or amended environmental classification document shall
publish a notice of the availability of its environmental classification
document in the Environmental Monitor. Such notice shall be on a form required
for publication in the Environmental Monitor and shall include the time line
and procedure for submitting comments on the document.
(c) Any person may comment, in writing, on
any environmental classification document no more than forty-five (45) days
after the publication of the notice of availability in the Environmental
Monitor. The agency developing the environmental classification document shall
forward all comments to the Office of Policy and Management, which shall
distribute them to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and
the Council on Environmental Quality.
(d) The Office of Policy and Management,
following consultation with the Department of Energy and Environmental
Protection, the Council on Environmental Quality and the agency that developed
the environmental classification document, shall approve each environmental
classification document, or disapprove it with recommendations for
change.
(e) Each approved
environmental classification document shall be filed with the Office of Policy
and Management.
(f) An approved
environmental classification document shall be the basic criterion for the
agency's determination to enter into the public scoping process for an
action.
(g) Each environmental
classification document shall be amended as necessary to reflect significant
changes in an agency's programs or operations. Adoption of any amendment to an
environmental classification document shall follow the adoption process set
forth in this section.
(h) Each
environmental classification document existing as of the effective date of this
section shall be reviewed by the agency that established it. Within eighteen
months of the effective date of this section the agency shall submit, for
review and approval, a revised environmental classification document or confirm
that it will continue to rely on the established environmental classification
document and that the established environmental classification document has
considered all factors identified in section
22a-1a-3
of the CEPA regulations.
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