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action in which all persons identified in section 3010, subsections | 1 and 2 have been given notice, may terminate the covenant or | reduce its burden on the real property subject to the covenant.__ | The agency's determination or its failure to make a determination | upon request is subject to review pursuant to the Maine | Administrative Procedure Act. |
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| | 3.__Extinguished, limited or impaired.__Except as otherwise | provided in subsections 1 and 2, an environmental covenant may | not be extinguished, limited or impaired through issuance of a | tax deed or foreclosure of a tax lien or application of the | doctrine of adverse possession, prescription, abandonment, | waiver, lack of enforcement or acquiescence or a similar | doctrine. |
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| | 4.__Laws governing marketable title and dormant mineral | interests.__An environmental covenant may not be extinguished, | limited or impaired by application of laws governing marketable | title and dormant mineral interests. |
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| §3010.__Amendment or termination by consent |
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| | 1.__Amendment or termination.__An environmental covenant may | be amended or terminated by consent only if the amendment or | termination is signed by: |
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| B.__Unless waived by the agency, the current owner of the | fee simple of the real property subject to the covenant; |
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| C.__Each person that originally signed the covenant, unless | the person waived in a signed record the right to consent or | a court finds that the person no longer exists or cannot be | located or identified with the exercise of reasonable | diligence; and |
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| D.__Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, paragraph | B, the holder. |
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| | 2.__Effect of amendment of covenant.__If an interest in real | property is subject to an environmental covenant, the interest is | not affected by an amendment of the covenant unless the current | owner of the interest consents to the amendment or has waived in | a signed record the right to consent to amendments. |
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| | 3.__Assignment to new holder.__Except for an assignment | undertaken pursuant to a governmental reorganization, assignment | of an environmental covenant to a new holder is an amendment. |
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