If signed into law, it will approve up to $25 million per year for 5 years starting in 2007 for various projects, and identifies 33 specific areas to be targetted, including 18 in Connecticut. Is one of these areas the West Haven beaches???
I found the Bill Status here, as well as the text version of the bill here (converted from PDF). Unfortunately, the bill doesn't mention which areas have been identified.
Chris Dodd's website has a press release celebrating the passage of the Long Island Sound Stewardship Act (LISSA) in the house and the senate. From the release:
LISSA will help protect the Long Island Sound (LIS) by providing financial incentives for owners of land parcels within the LIS area to preserve the environmental quality of and public access to this endangered habitat, which is home to 8,000,000 people.According to the Northender News:
LISSA focuses on the Sound’s rim, and should not be confused with the effort to reduce pollution in the Sound itself. Israel [Representative Steve Israel (D-Huntington)] says he will continue to fight for $40 million annually for this objective.
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Attorney General Richard Blumenthal was looking into it - if you go to http://www.ct.gov/ag/Search/Search.asp and plug in the word andover you can see all of the information on it. Right now, I think that there is a 90 day reprieve.
The last press release Richard Blumenthal sent out was:
Connecticut Attorney General's Office
Press Release
Attorney General's Statement On Agreement To Delay Insurance Cancellation
September 7, 2006
"This temporary respite offers no reliable permanent relief from a completely unreasonable policy - a 90-day suspension, but no solution.
"Once again, I urge the insurance commissioner to reverse her approval of the unfair, unprecedented condition imposed by Andover on homeowners that they install storm shutters or lose their insurance policies. I welcome her plan to use the next 90 days to carefully study this issue - a study that perhaps should have preceded her initial approval. This study should lead to one clear conclusion: such requirements are unreasonable and unacceptable.
"My separate antitrust investigation will continue vigorously and aggressively. I also intend to participate in the Sept. 21 informational forum, which will give consumers an opportunity to express their justified anger about such requirements as Andover's that impose costs of tens of thousands of dollars per home."
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