CHAPTER 21
H.P. 200 - L.D. 230
Resolve, to Provide for the Transfer of Funds to the Tire Management Fund and Require a Plan to Permanently Dedicate Fees Paid When Purchasing a New Tire or Battery to Tire Stockpile Abatement, Remediation and Cleanup
Sec. 1. Transfer of Maine Solid Waste Management Fund money to Tire Management Fund. Resolved: That, in fiscal year 2001-02, the State Controller shall transfer $570,000 from the Maine Solid Waste Management Fund, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, section 2201, to the Tire Management Fund, established in Title 38, section 1316-F. Following the end of fiscal year 2001-02, the State Controller shall transfer 50% of the surplus in the Maine Solid Waste Management Fund to the Tire Management Fund. For the purposes of this section, the term "surplus" means any positive difference between the net revenues deposited into the Maine Solid Waste Management Fund and the net transfers out of that fund in the same fiscal year; and be it further
Sec. 2. Implementation plan. Resolved: That the Commissioner of Environmental Protection and the Director of the State Planning Office within the Executive Department jointly shall prepare an implementation plan to accomplish the legislative goal of permanently dedicating, prior to the end of fiscal year 2004-05, all revenues collected from the fee imposed on the retail sale of tires and batteries to the Tire Management Fund established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, section 1316-F for tire stockpile abatement, remediation and cleanup. Accordingly, that plan must recommend a process, a timetable and a budget that includes moving all positions in those agencies that are currently funded by those fees to the General Fund, or another recommended funding source, and for concurrently directing those fees to the Tire Management Fund. That implementation plan, timetable and budget must be developed and submitted to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over natural resources matters not later than January 1, 2003; and be it further
Sec. 3. Authority to report out bill. Resolved: That the joint standing committee having jurisdiction over natural resources matters may report out a bill to the First Regular Session of the 121st Legislature pertaining to the use of revenues collected from the fee imposed on the retail sale of tires and batteries; and be it further
Sec. 4. Allocation. Resolved: That the following funds are allocated from Other Special Revenue funds to carry out the purposes of this resolve.
2001-02
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF
Remediation and Waste Management
All Other $570,000
Allocates additional funds to the Tire Management Fund.
Effective September 21, 2001, unless otherwise indicated.
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