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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §411, first ¶, as repealed and replaced by PL 1995, c.
186, §1, is amended to read:

 
The commissioner may pay an amount not to exceed 80% of the
expense of a municipal or quasi-municipal pollution abatement
construction program or a pollution abatement construction
program in an unorganized township or plantation authorized by
the county commissioners. The commissioner may make payments to
the Maine Municipal Bond Bank to supply the State's share of the
revolving loan fund established by Title 30-A, section 6006-A.
The commissioner may pay up to 90% of the expense of a municipal
or quasi-municipal pollution abatement construction program or a
pollution abatement construction program in an unorganized
township or plantation authorized by the county commissioners in
which the construction cost of the project does not exceed
$100,000 as long as total expenditures for the small projects do
not exceed $1,000,000 in any fiscal year and not more than one
grant is made to any applicant each year, except that the
commissioner may pay a percentage of the cost of individual
projects serving single-family dwellings, seasonal dwellings or
commercial establishments according to the following schedule:

 
ANNUAL INCOMESEASONALCOMMERCIAL

 
FAMILYDWELLINGESTABLISH-

 
DWELLINGMENT

 
$0 to $5,000 100% 25% 50%

 
$5,001 to $20,000 90% 25% 50%

 
$20,001 to $30,000 50% 25% 50%

 
$30,001 to $40,000 25% 25% 25%

 
$40,001 or more 0% 0%

 
ANNUAL INCOME

 

 
$0______to $18,750 50%

 
$18,751 to $25,000 25%

 
$25,001 or more

 
Sec. 2. 38 MRSA §411, 2nd ¶, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 186, §2, is
amended to read:

 
For the purposes of this section, "annual income" means the
sum of all the property owner's federal taxable income for the
previous year for single-family or seasonal dwellings and gross
profit for commercial establishments.


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