CHAPTER 282

H.P. 400 - L.D. 524

An Act To Facilitate Reimbursement of Public Utilities

Relocation Costs

Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and

Whereas, federal funds may be lost if this Act is not adopted as an emergency; and

Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 23 MRSA §4210-A is enacted to read:

§4210-A.__Payment for cost of relocating utility facilities

underground in federally designated historic districts

on federal aid highways

1.__Reimbursement.__The department, in the course of delivering the federal surface transportation program, 23 United States Code, Section 133 (2005) may reimburse a National Register Historic District or the community in which the National Register Historic District is located for the portion of the cost to move or relocate overhead utilities underground to the extent that such payments by the department are eligible for reimbursement under the federal surface transportation program pursuant to 23 United States Code, Section 133 (2005). To be eligible for this