Sec. B-12. 7 MRSA §3153, sub-§2, ķA, as amended by PL 1999, c. 210, §1, is further amended to read:

A. Effective June 1, 1984 January 1, 2000, each Maine market dealer shall, on a monthly basis, calculate for its Maine market producers the amount of payment at the adjusted base minimum price that would be payable to its Maine market producers according to the blend price calculated using that dealer's utilization rate, and the amount of payment at the base minimum price that would be due its Maine market producers according to the blend price calculated using the applicable utilization rate component prices and producer price differential for Suffolk County, Massachusetts for the New England Milk Marketing Order northeast marketing area milk marketing order. Each Maine market dealer shall make an initial payment at the base minimum price to its Maine market producers according to the blend price calculated using the Federal Milk Order utilization rate or the Federal Milk Order Zone 1 blend price, whichever is greater, but shall comply in all other respects using established minimum component prices and the producer price differential for the northeast marketing area milk marketing order for Suffolk County, Massachusetts in accordance with chapter 603. Any additional payment at the adjusted base minimum price that would be due its Maine market producers pursuant to that dealer's applicable utilization rate must be made to the Maine Milk Pool. Based on the fact that northern Maine market producers presently operate at significantly higher costs because of their remoteness from markets and supplies, that they face greater risks because they operate on a closer margin and because their markets are less secure, payments to the Maine Milk Pool at the adjusted base minimum price attributable to northern Maine market producers must be reduced by 1/2 and those producers' initial payments under this section must be increased by the corresponding amounts. The commissioner shall adopt by rule such procedures as are necessary to implement this section.

Sec. B-13. 7 MRSA §3153, sub-§4, ķA, as amended by PL 1991, c. 12, is further amended to read:

A. If any Boston market producer whose farm is located within 140 miles of Boston receives a plant price, excluding deductions or additions imposed by the so-called Louisville Plan as defined by Part 1001, Federal Milk Order No. 1, Section 1001.61, Subsections c and d, or any amendment