6. Interest on award. The interest, if any, due on the net amount of the award from the date of taking to the date of the award;

7. Award. The award which shall be that is the net damage, less the amount paid the owner or owners at the date of taking plus interest on the net amount of the award; and

8. Withholding. The withholding, if any, authorized pursuant to section 244-A, subsection 4.

No interest may be allowed on so much of the net damage that has been paid to the owner or owners.

An attested copy of each award must be sent immediately to the Department of Transportation and to the party or parties named in the award. The State Claims Commission shall state by letter the date it forwarded the award and all parties shall within 30 days designate to the commission the award or awards from which an appeal will be taken to Superior Court. If no appeal is taken within 30 days of the date of issuance of the commission award, the State Claims Commission shall promptly notify the Department of Transportation. The Department of Transportation shall, within 60 days from the date of issuance of the commission award, pay the awarded amount to the party or parties named in the award.

Service as required by this section must chapter may also be made in the manner prescribed by Rule 5 of provided by the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure.

Upon certification by the Department of Transportation that after due diligence the address of owners of record can not be determined or when the State Claims Commission notice by mail is returned to the commission unclaimed or unknown or where personal service can not be made, the chair of the commission may order service by publication. Notice of the time and place of the review and hearing must be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the subject property is located. The commission shall then proceed with the hearing as in other cases and the appeal provisions must be available to the Department of Transportation and the record owner or owners, or any one of them, who appears and makes application for appeal pursuant to section 157.