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for total response costs at the site. The negotiable
instrument must be in the amount of $2,000, unless the
authority determines that the payment to be made by the person
at the site will be in an amount less than $2,000, in which
case the authority shall pay to the person an amount equal to
the amount the person is to pay in relation to the site. All
payments made under this subsection must be from funds
transferred from the Maine Rainy Day Fund.

 
C. After the payments authorized in paragraphs A and B have
been made, additional payments must be made from the
available balance from funds transferred from the Maine
Rainy Day Fund to all persons who received funds under
paragraphs A and B who have paid their settlement share of
total response costs, and whose total liability at the site
exceeds the amount the persons received under paragraph A or
B. Distributions under this paragraph are proportionate to
the amount each person paid as the person's share of total
response costs at the site. Payments made pursuant to this
subsection may not exceed the person's settlement share of
total response costs attributable to eligible persons as
defined in this subsection multiplied by the total orphan
share percentage at the waste oil disposal site. The
authority may not issue deferred loans for eligible persons
who have received payments pursuant to this subsection.
This distribution must occur on April 1 June 30, 2000. Any
remaining funds in the fund must be transferred to the
Groundwater Oil Clean-up Fund.

 
For purposes of this subsection, "person" means any natural
person domiciled in this State; a corporation or partnership in
the State; the State; any agency, authority, department,
commission, municipality, quasi-municipal corporation, special-
purpose district or other instrumentality of the State; a
political subdivision of the State, including but not limited to
those defined in Title 14, chapter 741 and Title 30-A, chapter
225; any other entity identified as a responsible party at the
waste oil disposal site whose waste oil is identified as
delivered to the waste oil disposal site and picked up from an
address or location within the State in the records compiled by
the Department of Environmental Protection or the United States
Environmental Protection Agency or their agents, provided that
neither the Federal Government nor any of its agencies,
authorities, departments, boards, commissions or
instrumentalities are eligible to have any share of their
obligation for response costs paid by the fund. A person is not
eligible for assistance under this subsection unless the person
is a participant in a settlement agreement under which an entity
has assumed liability for total response costs at the Wells waste
oil disposal site.


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