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PUBLIC Law, Chapter 631

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An Act To Ensure Adequate Funding for the Maine Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and Waste Discharge Licensing Program

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

Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §353-B, sub-§2, ¶A,  as corrected by RR 2011, c. 2, §43, is amended to read:

A. The fees for waste discharge license groups are the 2019 bill amounts increased by a factor of 1.4 as follows.
Discharge group Basis for annual fee Median fee for discharge group Water quality improvement surcharge
Publicly owned treatment facilities, 10,000 gallons per day or less annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $306  $543
Publicly owned treatment facilities, more than 10,000 gallons per day to 0.1 million gallons per day annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $400  $689
Publicly owned treatment facilities, more than 0.1 million gallons per day to 1.0 million gallons per day annual fee Average of 2009, 2010 and 2011  2019 bill amounts  amount $617  $1,063
Publicly owned treatment facilities, more than 1.0 million gallons per day to 5.0 million gallons per day annual fee Average of 2009, 2010 and 2011  2019 bill amounts  amount $1,300  $2,241
Publicly owned treatment facilities, greater than 5 million gallons per day or with significant industrial waste annual fee Average of 2009, 2010 and 2011  2019 bill amounts  amount $4,553  $7,850
Major industrial facility, process wastewater (based on EPA list of major source discharges) annual fee Average of 2009, 2010 and 2011  2019 bill amounts  amount $19,672  $33,919
Other industrial facility, process wastewater annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $1,214  $2,093
Food handling or packaging wastewater annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $659  $1,135
Fish-rearing facility 0.1 million gallons per day or less annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $312  $538
Fish-rearing facility over 0.1 million gallons per day annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $794  $1,368
Marine aquaculture facility annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $308  $529
Noncontact cooling water annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $192  $330
Industrial or commercial sources, miscellaneous or incidental nonprocess wastewater annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $363  $626
Municipal combined sewer overflow annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $413  $711
Sanitary wastewater, excluding overboard discharge annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $736  $1,268
Sanitary overboard discharge, commercial sources annual fee 2011 bill amount $446 $75
Sanitary overboard discharge, residential sources 600 gallons per day or less annual fee 2011 bill amount $231 $75
Sanitary overboard discharge, residential sources more than 600 gallons per day annual fee 2011 bill amount $313 $75
Sanitary overboard discharge, public sources annual fee 2011 bill amount $315 $75
Aquatic pesticide application annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $644  $1,110
Snow dumps annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $319  $550
Salt and sand storage pile annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $429  $738
Log storage permit annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $422  $727
General permit coverage for industrial storm water discharges (except construction) annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $300  $588
General permit coverage for marine aquaculture facility annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $134  $230
General permit coverage (other) annual fee 2011  2019 bill amount $164  $283
Experimental discharge license license fee 2011  2019 bill amount $899  $1,550
New or amended mixing zone, in addition to other applicable fees flat fee $5,368  $9,254 ---
Formation of sanitary district flat fee $402  $693 ---
Transfer of license for residential or commercial sanitary wastewater flat fee $100  $140 ---

On an annual basis, municipalities and publicly owned treatment works whose combined sewer overflows have the potential to affect shellfish harvesting areas as determined by the department by virtue of their locations within estuarine or marine waters of the State must be assessed a surcharge on their wastewater discharge licenses in a total amount of $12,000. This amount must be allocated among the municipalities and publicly owned treatment works according to their prior 3-year average annual flows as reported to the department.

On an annual basis, publicly owned treatment works whose outfalls licensed for the discharge of treated effluent cause adjacent shellfish growing areas to be closed for the purposes of harvesting shellfish must be assessed a license surcharge in a total amount of $25,000. This amount must be allocated among the publicly owned treatment works according to the acreage that each licensed outfall closes. This acreage must be determined by the Department of Marine Resources in consultation with the department.

Sec. 2. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF

Maine Environmental Protection Fund 0421

Initiative: Allocates funds for expenditures associated with license or permit activities such as application reviews, public hearings and appeals, the actual license or permit processing activities and associated post-license or post-permit compliance activities and enforcement activities as a result of license or permit noncompliance.

OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 2019-20 2020-21
All Other
$0 $340,077
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OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL $0 $340,077

Effective 90 days following adjournment of the 129th Legislature, Second Regular Session, unless otherwise indicated.


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