SUMMARY

This bill is the majority report of the Joint Standing Committee on Natural Resources.

This bill amends the Clean Car Incentives Pilot Program to allow money in the Clean Fuel Vehicle Fund to be used to pay automobile scrappers up to $350 for each high-pollution vehicle scrapped under the program. The term "automobile scrapper" is to be defined in rules adopted by the Board of Environmental Protection and may include, but it not limited to, an automobile graveyard, an automobile recycling business or a junkyard, as those terms are defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30- A, section 3752.

The bill also directs the Board of Environmental Protection to adopt emergency routine technical rules to define automobile scrappers and to establish the process for making payments to automobile scrappers.