(a) Not later than seven days from June 9, 2010, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall commence a review of the existing time frames for the review of all individual permits issued by the department. Not later than September 30, 2010, the commissioner shall issue a comprehensive report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the Governor and the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the environment that (1) proposes a plan to establish a pilot expedited permitting process for not less than two hundred representative manufacturing or other industrial facilities, (2) prescribes changes to be made to the department’s review schedules for individual permits, including reducing the time frames for identifying deficiencies in permit applications and issuing tentative determinations in accordance with subdivisions (2) and (3) of subsection (b) of this section, and (3) indentifies the process improvements, additional resources, staffing and programmatic changes necessary to meet such time frames.

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(b) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, establishing schedules for timely action for each application for a permit for activity regulated under this title. Such schedules may be based on the lengths of time that the commissioner deems appropriate for different categories of permit applications and permits and may address situations when more than one permit is required for the regulated activity. Each such schedule shall contain the following:

(1) A provision that the schedule shall begin when an application is received by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, any public notice requirements have been fulfilled and the application fee is paid;

(2) One or more periods of reasonable length, based on the nature and complexity of the review required of the department, at the end of which time the department shall issue a decision to grant or deny the permit or identify deficiencies in the application, provided the schedule may also reasonably limit the amount of time in which the applicant may remedy such deficiencies. All reasonable efforts shall be made by the department to ensure that deficiencies in any application for a permit are identified and the applicant notified in writing of such deficiencies not later than sixty days after the department receives such application;

(3) A period of reasonable length, based on the nature and complexity of the review required of the commissioner, beginning with receipt of materials submitted by the applicant in response to the commissioner’s identification of deficiencies, at the end of which time the commissioner shall issue a tentative determination to grant or deny the permit. All reasonable efforts shall be made by the department to issue a tentative determination to grant or deny a permit not later than one hundred eighty days after the department determines that the application materials are sufficient, provided such one-hundred-eighty-day period shall not include any period of time during which the commissioner has requested, in writing, and is waiting to receive, additional application materials from an applicant;

(4) A period of reasonable length after such tentative determination and the conclusion of any public hearing held with regard to such decision;

(5) Allowance for applicable state or federal public participation requirements; and

(6) A provision extending the time periods set forth in subdivisions (2) and (3) of this subsection when action by another state agency or a federal or municipal agency is required before the commissioner may act, when (A) judicial proceedings affect the ability of the commissioner or the applicant to proceed with the application, (B) the commissioner has commenced enforcement proceedings which could result in revocation of an existing permit for the facility or regulated activity that is the subject of the application and denial of the application, or (C) the applicant provides written assent extending any applicable time period.

(c) The commissioner shall annually compile and report on the department’s Internet web site, by category of permit, instances in which the schedules for timely action set forth in this subsection were not achieved and explanations for the department’s inability to meet such time frames.