§1310-H-1.__Notice to subsequent owners

The owner of a parcel of land upon which a closed municipal solid waste landfill is located shall include notice of the presence of the landfill in any deed transferring ownership of all or part of the parcel and in any easement conveying a right of use to all or part of the parcel.

Sec. 14. 38 MRSA §1319, sub-§2, śC, as enacted by PL 1979, c. 730, §2, is amended to read:

C. Exempt type of types or methods of discharges of hazardous matter from the requirements of this subchapter that the board determines do not present danger, imminent, present or delayed, to the people of the State or to its natural environment.

SUMMARY

This bill:

1. Establishes a penalty for late payment of oil import fees;

2. Requires operators of underground motor fuel storage facilities to report inventory discrepancies exceeding 200 gallons. Under current law, discrepancies of 200 gallons or more do not need to be reported if they do not exceed 1% of the 30-day throughput for the facility;

3. Establishes a lien to facilitate recovery of costs incurred by the department in the abandonment of an underground oil storage facility;

4. Eliminates obsolete language from the provision requiring legislative review of all rules related to aboveground and underground oil storage facilities;

5. Requires underground piping at aboveground oil storage facilities to meet the same requirements that apply to underground piping at underground oil storage facilities;

6. Changes the definition of "lead inspection" to be consistent with other terminology used in the lead abatement laws;

7. Changes the definition of "waste oil" to include synthetic oil that has become contaminated or otherwise is unsuited for its original purpose. This change is needed to