For purposes of this paragraph, the department shall adopt rules, which are routine technical rules pursuant to Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A, to implement the requirements in the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2001, Public Law 106-554, Section 1(a)(4) and Appendix D, Division B, Title XIV, Section 1404(b) or (c), 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A-316 and Code of Federal Regulations 159.315 and 159.317 (2003) with the following changes:__"Maine" is substituted for "Alaska," "Department of Environmental Protection" is substituted for "Captain of the Port" and for "Coast Guard," and "graywater or a mixture of graywater and blackwater" is substituted for "treated sewage and/or graywater."

The department shall enter into a memorandum of agreement with the United States Coast Guard to consolidate information requirements of the department and the United States Coast Guard to the extent acceptable to the United States Coast Guard.

5.__Agent for service of process.__The owner or operator of a commercial passenger vessel shall continuously maintain a designated agent for service of process whenever the commercial passenger vessel is in coastal waters.__The agent must be an individual resident of the State, a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation having a place of business in and authorized to do business in the State.__"Agent for service of process" means an agent upon whom process, notice of or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the owner or operator may be served.

6. Innocent passage.__This section does not apply to a commercial passenger vessel that operates in the coastal waters of the State solely in innocent passage.__For purposes of this paragraph, a commercial passenger vessel is engaged in innocent passage if its operation in coastal waters of the State, regardless of whether the vessel is a United States or foreign- flag vessel, would constitute innocent passage under the:

A.__Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, April 29, 1958, 15 U.S.T. 1606; or

B.__United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982, December 10, 1982, United Nations publication No. E.83.V.5, 21 I.L.M. 1261 (1982), were the vessel a foreign-flag vessel.