HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration is offering a bill that would require Connecticut’s largest regional trash authority to undergo an extensive audit so the state can get a better handle on the organization’s finances.
The legislation also requires the quasi-public Connecticut Regional Resources Recovery Authority to develop a plan for achieving long-term financial stability or a plan for possibly dissolving the authority and disposing CRRA’s assets, such as its trash-to-energy facility in Hartford.
CRRA manages garbage and recyclables for 75 of the state’s 169 cities and towns and has warned it will have to close its trash-to-energy plant in Hartford at the end of the 2014 fiscal year unless there’s a viable alternative plan.
The legislation must be offered as an amendment before the General Assembly adjourns June 5.
