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31st thereafter, on progress made in achieving the requirements | specified in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, section 420, | subsection 2. On February 16, 2004, the Commissioner of | Environmental Protection and the Commissioner of Health and Human | Services shall present to the Governor and the joint standing | committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over natural | resources matters a comprehensive assessment on the progress in | eliminating the discharge of dioxin from bleach kraft pulp mills in | this State. The assessment must report on: |
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| | 1. Dioxin concentrations in fish above and below mills and | the health implications of those concentrations; |
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| | 2. Any evidence that dioxin is being discharged from any | mill; |
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| | 3. Current technology that achieves no discharge of dioxin; |
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| | 4. The need for continuing the dioxin monitoring program; and |
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| | 5. Other known sources of dioxin polluting rivers in this | State. |
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| | The commissioners shall make recommendations regarding any | additional action that may be warranted. |
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| | Sec. 35. Resolve 2003, c. 130, §1 is amended to read: |
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| | *Sec. 1. Adoption. Resolved: That final adoption of Chapter 355: Sand | Dune Rules, a provisionally adopted major substantive rule of the | Department of Environmental Protection that has been submitted to | the Legislature for review pursuant to the Maine Revised | Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A, |
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| is authorized only if Chapter 355 is amended in that section | relating to new construction in frontal dunes and designated as | section 6, paragraph B, subparagraph (1) (3) to provide that | elevators, in addition to ramps, that are required for compliance | with the requirements of the federal Americans with Disabilities | Act are exempt from the requirement that a new structure or | addition to an existing structure may not be constructed on or | seaward of a frontal dune. The rule must also be amended to | provide that elevators or ramps serving buildings required to | comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act must be | designed and constructed so as to minimize intrusion on the | frontal dune, including locating the structures to the rear of | buildings or within areas of a lot already developed, such as a | parking area. The Department of Environmental Protection is not | required to hold hearings or conduct other formal proceedings |
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