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C. "Farm product" means those plants and animals useful to
humans and includes, but is not limited to forages and sod
crops, grains and food crops, dairy products, poultry and
poultry products, bees, livestock and livestock products and
fruits, berries, vegetables, flowers, seeds, grasses and other
similar products.

 
D.__"Agricultural composting operation" means composting
that takes place on a farm.__"Agricultural composting
operation" does not include an operation that involves
nonorganic municipal solid waste or that composts municipal
sludge, septage, industrial solid waste or industrial
sludge. "Agricultural composting operation" does not include__
an operation that composts materials with a moderate or high
risk of contamination from heavy metals, volatile and
semivolatile organic compounds, polychlorinated biphenyls or
dioxin.

 
E.__"Composting" means the controlled aerobic decomposition
of organic materials to produce a soil-like product
beneficial to plant growth and suitable for agronomic use.

 
2-A. Farm, farm operation or agricultural composting operation
not nuisance. A farm or, farm operation or agricultural
composting operation may not be considered a public or private
nuisance if the farm or, farm operation or agricultural
composting operation alleged to be a nuisance is in compliance
with applicable state and federal laws, rules and regulations and
meets one of the following conditions:

 
A. The farm or, farm operation or agricultural composting
operation conforms to best management practices, as
determined by the Commissioner of Agriculture, Food and
Rural Resources in accordance with the Maine Administrative
Procedure Act, Title 5, chapter 375;

 
B. For complaints regarding the storage or use of farm
nutrients as defined in Title 7, section 4201, subsection 4,
the farm or farm operation has implemented a nutrient
management plan developed in accordance with Title 7,
section 4204 and operation of the farm is consistent with
the nutrient management plan; or

 
C. The farm or farm operation existed before a change in the
land use or occupancy of land within one mile of the boundaries
of the farm as long as, before the change in land use or
occupancy, the farm or farm operation would not have been
considered a nuisance. This paragraph does not apply to a farm
or farm operation that materially changes the


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