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in its report and shall include recommendations for legislative or
regulatory changes as necessary.

 
Sec. 4. 38 MRSA §2231, sub-§1-A is enacted to read:

 
1-A.__Landfill facility.__"Landfill facility" means a facility
that accepts solid waste and disposes of the waste through
landfilling or processes the waste for reuse.

 
Sec. 5. 38 MRSA §2232, as amended by PL 1999, c. 657, §27, is
further amended to read:

 
§2232. Reporting

 
An incineration facility and landfill facility shall submit an
annual report to the office no later than 90 days after the end
of the incineration facility's fiscal year. For reasonable cause
shown and upon written application by an incineration facility or
landfill facility, the office may grant an extension of the 90-
day period. The report must be certified by an appropriate
executive officer of the incineration facility as being complete
and accurate. The office may prescribe the form of the annual
report and the number of copies that must be submitted. The
report must include the following information:

 
1. Waste. The total weight in tons of all solid waste
received by the incineration facility or landfill facility in the
last completed fiscal year and each month of that year and a
breakdown of these totals according to the waste sources types
and waste source categories, including both in-state and out-of-
state as specified by the office;

 
2. Tipping fee. A schedule of various tipping fees imposed
by the incineration facility or landfill facility on the
incineration facility's municipal and commercial customers over
the last completed fiscal year including an identification of all
changes in those fees and a similar schedule of fees to be
imposed on municipal and commercial customers for the next fiscal
year. The tipping fees for commercial customers must be set out
separately by each rate charged to each category of commercial
customer;

 
3. Revenue. The total revenue of the incineration facility
or landfill facility from all sources for the last completed
fiscal year and each month of that year. Revenue figures must
identify revenues from each revenue source, including, but not
limited to, revenues from disposal fees, disaggregated by waste
type and waste source category as specified by the office,
tipping fees and any revenue from sales of electricity to
transmission and distribution utilities;


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