State Toughens Spill Reporting Requirements

Connecticut’s spill reporting thresholds have been lowered, so you may now need to report releases that would not have triggered reporting requirements in the past. The changes to the “Significant Environmental Hazard” Law took effect on July 1. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection will issue a Fact Sheet in the near future, but in the interim, we have prepared a memo which outlines each scenario that now requires reporting.