LD 1626
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Page 8 of 12 An Act to Establish the Waste Motor Oil Disposal Site Remediation Program Page 10 of 12
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LR 2819
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A.__The United States of America or any of its agencies,
authorities, departments, boards, commissions or
instrumentalities.

 
7.__Determinations regarding eligibility.__In accordance with
the standards set forth in subsection 5 and with the procedures
set forth in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter II for rulemaking,
the board shall establish a registry of all persons who qualify
to have their share of response costs and total response costs
paid pursuant to this subchapter.

 
A.__In order to establish the registry, the board shall
review the list of responsible parties prepared by the
Department of Environmental Protection or the United States
Environmental Protection Agency with respect to the waste
motor oil disposal sites and must have access to all
Department of Environmental Protection and United States
Environmental Protection Agency records that relate in any
way to the volume or composition of materials that may have
been deposited in any waste motor oil disposal site.__Copies
of the registry must be made available to the public at the
office of the Commissioner of Economic and Community
Development, the office of the Commissioner of Environmental
Protection and the office of the chief executive officer of
the authority.

 
B.__The board shall cause the list for each waste motor oil
disposal site to be published simultaneously, 2 times, 7
days apart, in the weekend edition of the following
newspapers or any of their successors:__the Bangor Daily
News, the Portland Press Herald, the Kennebec Journal, the
Waterville Sentinel, the Times Record in Brunswick, the
Aroostook Republican, the Lewiston Daily Sun and the
Biddeford Saco Courier.

 
C.__Any responsible party may request reconsideration from the
board of any board decision relating to eligibility for that
responsible party.__All requests for reconsideration must be
mailed, postage prepaid, to the address designated by the board.__
All requests for reconsideration may be in writing only, include
such information as the responsible party desires to draw to the
board's attention and must be received by the board no later than
30 days from the 2nd date of publication of notice in the
newspapers identified in this subsection.__The chair of the board
shall appoint a subcommittee of 5 members to render a decision in
writing within 60 days of the date the board receives a request
for reconsideration.__The chair may appoint multiple
subcommittees at the discretion of the chair.__Each subcommittee
of the board may grant a request for


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