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LR 3523
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may employ personnel necessary to carry out the purposes of this
subchapter, and shall prescribe the duties of those employees. The
salaries of those employees and the cost of that equipment must be
paid from the Maine Coastal and Inland Surface Oil Clean-up Fund
established by this subchapter. The commissioner and the Director
of the Natural Resources Information and Mapping Center Bureau of
Geology and Natural Areas shall periodically consult with each
other relative to procedures for the prevention of oil discharges
into the coastal waters of the State from offshore drilling
production facilities. Inspection and enforcement employees of the
department in their line of duty under this subchapter shall have
the powers of a constable.

 
Sec. 37. 38 MRSA §1310-E, sub-§2, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 732,
Pt. C, §12, is amended to read:

 
A. The landfill is a licensed municipal solid waste
landfill or the municipality has been ordered to close or
remediate a landfill pursuant to section 1310-D, subsection
2 in which case the landfill must be closed in accordance
with subsection 1; and

 
Sec. 38. 38 MRSA §1310-E, sub-§2, ¶B, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 732,
Pt. C, §12 and amended by PL 1995, c. 502, Pt. E, §32, is further
amended to read:

 
B. The landfill meets one of the following criteria, in
which case the landfill must close in accordance with
subsection 3:

 
(1) A drinking water supply well is located within
1,000 feet of the solid waste boundary of the landfill;

 
(2) The public water supply well is located within
10,000 feet of the solid waste boundary of the landfill
and in the same aquifer, for landfills located on a
sand and gravel aquifer as mapped by the Natural
Resources Information and Mapping Center Bureau of
Geology and Natural Areas, Maine Geological Survey
within the Department of Conservation;

 
(3) An enclosed building is located within 100 feet of
the solid waste boundary of the landfill; or

 
(4) The landfill has received hazardous industrial
wastes.

 
Sec. 39. 38 MRSA §1454-A, sub-§5, as amended by PL 1995, c. 333, §5
and c. 502, Pt. E, §32, is further amended to read:


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