H.P. 1038 - L.D. 1455
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 500: Stormwater Management, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Land and Water Quality
Sec. 1. Adoption. Resolved: That final adoption of Chapter 500: Stormwater Management, a provisionally adopted major substantive rule of the Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Land and Water Quality, submitted to the Legislature for review pursuant to the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, is authorized, with the following amendments to the rule. The rule must provide an exception to the requirement that designs required as part of the application for an individual permit or a permit by rule must be prepared under the supervision of or designed by a registered professional engineer. The exception must allow either a registered professional engineer or a professional who is registered, licensed or certified in a related land use field, who is knowledgeable in storm water management and who has received training in the design of ditches, grassed swales and level spreaders at a department-sponsored workshop to prepare, when required as part of an application for a project with less than 3 acres of new impervious area, the following designs:
1. Designs of ditches, swales and other open storm water channels that drain no more than one acre of land; and
2. Designs of level spreaders that receive drainage from no more than one acre of land; and be it further
Sec. 2. Report; legislation. Resolved: That the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, no later than January 15, 1998, shall report to the Joint Standing Committee on Natural Resources on proposed measures that would reduce the contribution of nonpoint source pollution to Maine lakes, streams and coastal waters from existing sources. In developing these measures, the Department of Environmental Protection shall consult with members of small businesses and a broad cross-section of potentially affected stakeholders, as well as other relevant agencies and Legislators. The Joint Standing Committee on Natural Resources may report out legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 118th Legislature regarding application of the storm water management laws statewide and to existing sources.
Effective September 19, 1997, unless otherwise indicated.
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