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Links to various forms required to become a Licensed Environmental Professional in Connecticut.
Significant Environmental Hazards
Section 22a-6u of the Connecticut General Statutes (CGS) requires the owner of property which is the source or location of pollution causing a significant environmental hazard to notify the Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) after they become aware of such conditions.
Links to websites for Petroleum Products
Residential Home Heating Oil Tanks
Residential Home Heating Oil Tanks
Residential Underground Home Heating Oil Tank Releases
Guidance for residential home heating oil tank Leaks and cleanup of releases from residential heating oil tanks
Permit & Licenses Common Forms
The Site Characterization Guidance Document describes DEEP's recommendations for the investigation of properties and the suggested content of documentation that presents the facts and findings of site characterization by environmental professionals responsible for designing, conducting, and documenting site investigations and by any parties/persons required by law to conduct an investigation of a property in accordance with prevailing standards and guidelines.
DEEP’s Remediation Division oversees the assessment and cleanup of brownfields, sites that are abandoned or underutilized due to the presence or potential presence of pollution, to return them to productive use.
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) regulates the discharge of industrial wastewater to the ground water, surface water, and to sewage treatment plants through permitting programs. Discharge limits and requirements for treatment, monitoring and reporting, designed to protect the waters of the state from pollution, are specified in all permits.
Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT)
Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) is the lowest emission limitation that a source is capable of meeting considering technological and economic feasibility
Blueback herring and alewives are so similar that the color of the gut lining (peritoneum) is the only sure way to tell them apart.
COVID-19 Updates CT State Parks and Forests
CT State Parks COVID-19 Updates
Learn about the very specific legal definitions for tidal wetlands and inland wetlands that Connecticut has.