Conn. Gen. Stat. § 25-76
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection is authorized to negotiate, cooperate and enter into agreements with the federal government and with any municipality through its flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control board for the purpose of constructing small flood control systems or tidal and hurricane protection and navigation projects including dams, dikes, flood walls, reservoirs, river channel improvements and such other works as are necessary to reduce or prevent damages due to floods, including projects constructed under the provisions of Title 33, Chapter 15, Section 701s, of the United States Code, as amended. The commissioner is authorized to use nonstructural measures of flood control, including but not limited to, acquisition of real property which the commissioner determines is reasonably necessary for use in connection with such systems or projects, by purchase, lease or gift or by condemnation in the manner provided by part I of chapter 835. The commissioner is authorized to give assurances to the federal government that the state will hold and save the United States free from damages due to the construction works and that the state will pay cash contributions as may be required as a local contribution for any flood control system or project undertaken by the federal government or by the state, subject to reimbursement as provided in sections 25-71 and 25-72, except that, for tidal and hurricane protection and navigation projects, such reimbursement shall be not less than fifty per cent.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 25-76
(1957, P.A. 669, S. 1; 1961, P.A. 592, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 14, S. 2; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 114; P.A. 80-356, S. 1; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)