NEW LONDON, Conn. — The Commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection hereby gives notice that a public hearing is being held based upon a request made by the Applicant pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 22a-32 and 22a-361(b)(A).
The portion of the hearing to receive public comment will be held using the Zoom virtual meeting platform on March 23, 2021 at 3:00 PM. Written public comments may be submitted to the hearing officer at brendan.schain@ct.gov and will be accepted until the close of business on March 26, 2021. To register for the public comment session on Zoom, go to: https://ctdeep.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FSd3ok_kTrCsajxj-gprmw.
The hearing will then be continued for the collection of evidence on March 30, 2021 at 9:30 A.M. The evidentiary hearing will continue on March 31, April 6, and April 7, 2021, as needed. All hearing sessions will be held remotely using Zoom; and all hearing sessions will begin at 9:30 A.M. There is one zoom link to register to attend any/all days of the evidentiary hearing (you do not need to register for each individually): https://ctdeep.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bluOAtC-RFmSQY5j1LfTbw.
These links are also available on the Department’s calendar, which is also a source of up to date information: www.ct.gov/deep/calendar.
Interested persons may obtain a copy of the application and other relevant documents from this website under the “Joint Permit Application (JPA) – October 2020” dropdown of the “Documents” section.
The public notice is available for review on the DEEP website here. The public notice was also published in The Day on February 18, 2021. The public notice can also be found on this website under the “CTDEEP Public Notice – December 2020” dropdown of the “Documents” section.