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Environmental Protection or the United States Environmental
Protection Agency.

 
51-B.__Waste motor oil.__"Waste motor oil" means any
lubricating oil classified for use in an internal combustion
engine, transmission, gear box, differential or hydraulics for a
motor vehicle, boat, off-highway recreational vehicle, commercial
or household power equipment or earth-moving equipment; "waste
motor oil" means motor oil that through use, storage or handling
has become unsuitable for its original purpose due to the
presence of impurities or the loss of original properties.

 
51-C.__Waste motor oil disposal site.__"Waste motor oil
disposal site" means the following 4 sites, where waste motor oil
was stored and that are now contaminated and subject to such
response action requirements as the Department of Environmental
Protection or the United States Environmental Protection Agency
may impose according to applicable law:

 
A.__Portland-Bangor Waste Oil Services Site/Howes Corner
Federal Superfund Site - Plymouth, Maine;

 
B.__Portland-Bangor Waste Oil Services Site/Maine
Uncontrolled Hazardous Substances Site - Ellsworth, Maine;

 
C.__Portland-Bangor Waste Oil Services Site/Maine
Uncontrolled Hazardous Substances Site - Casco, Maine; and

 
D.__Portland-Bangor Waste Oil Services Site/Maine
Uncontrolled Hazardous Substances Site - Wells, Maine.

 
Sec. 4. 10 MRSA c. 110, sub-c. I-E is enacted to read:

 
SUBCHAPTER I-E

 
WASTE MOTOR OIL DISPOSAL SITE

 
REMEDIATION PROGRAM

 
§1018.__Waste Motor Oil Revenue Fund

 
1.__Definitions.__As used in this subchapter, unless the
context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the
following meanings.

 
A.__"Board" means the Waste Motor Oil Revenue Board.

 
B.__"Fund" means the Waste Motor Oil Revenue Fund.

 
2.__Creation; sources of fund.__The Waste Motor Oil Revenue
Fund is created.__The fund consists of the following sources:


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