LD 1578
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LD 1578 Title Page An Act To Ensure Certain Protections to Communities Hosting Waste-to-energy Fac... Page 2 of 3
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §1303-C, sub-§15-B is enacted to read:

 
15-B.__Host community.__"Host community" means any town,
township or city that is the geographical site of a waste-to-
energy facility or any town, township or city that is party to a
host community waste handling agreement for disposal of municipal
solid waste, dated prior to December 31, 2004, including
specifically that agreement between the City of Biddeford and the
City of Saco and the Maine Energy Recovery Company, L.P., dated
June 7, 1991.

 
Sec. 2. 38 MRSA §1304-B, sub-§4-B is enacted to read:

 
4-B.__Contract with host community.__Any contract for disposal
of solid waste or municipal solid waste entered into by or with a
host community must meet the conditions set forth in section
1310-N, subsection 9.

 
Sec. 3. 38 MRSA §1304-D is enacted to read:

 
§1304-D.__Host community may adopt rules

 
Notwithstanding section 1304, subsections 1, 1-A, 1-B and 1-C,
a host community may adopt its own reasonable rules on the
transportation of solid waste, municipal solid waste, special
waste and refuse-derived fuel through that host community,
including posting certain roads with weight limitations, setting
route limitations or restrictions to minimize the disruption of
predominantly residential areas or areas of special environmental
concern or sensitivity, limiting hours for the delivery of such
wastes and setting penalties for transporters who leak, spill or
discharge wastes onto public ways.

 
Sec. 4. 38 MRSA §1310-N, sub-§9, ¶B, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 465, Pt.
A, §16 and affected by Pt. C, §2, is amended to read:

 
B. Based upon the nature, size and projected impacts of the
proposed facility, An agreement between an incineration
facility or its owner or operator and a host community
agreements or other community must, when applicable, include
provisions regarding:

 
(1) Improvement, maintenance and repair of local roads
directly affected by traffic to and from the facility
and of other infrastructural elements directly affected
by the facility, including sewerage, storm water or
drainage pipes and other aboveground and underground
utilities;


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