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Presently, the statute inadvertently identifies the wrong bridge | | relative to where tidewater occurs on the Dennys River. This bill | | changes the statute to designate the correct bridge relative to the | | location of tidewaters. |
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| | | 5. It amends the "sand supply" standard in the Maine Revised | | Statutes, Title 38, section 480-D, subsection 7 by adding "or | | gravel" in order to make it consistent with the definition of | | "coastal sand dune systems" in Title 38, section 480-B, | | subsection 1. |
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| | | 6. It makes a claimant ineligible to receive 3rd-party damage | | payments from the Maine Coastal and Inland Surface Oil Clean-up | | Fund or the Ground Water Oil Clean-up Fund if the claimant caused | | the oil discharge that resulted in the damages or the claimant | | otherwise meets the definition of "responsible party" under Maine | | oil discharge law. |
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| | | 7. It authorizes the Commissioner of Environmental Protection | | to dismiss a claim for damages associated with an oil discharge | | if the claim is not timely filed, the claimant does not provide | | the information needed to process the claim or the claimant is | | found to be responsible for the discharge. |
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| | | 8. It provides that the discovery of oil in drinking water | | supplies, soil or other locations on the premises of an | | underground storage facility is evidence of a leak. Such | | evidence of leakage must be reported to the department unless | | reporting is otherwise exempted under existing provisions of law. |
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| | | 9. It allows operators of underground oil storage facilities | | to forego inventory analysis if the storage tanks are monitored | | for leaks by a method able to detect a product loss of 0.2 | | gallons or less per hour. Current law allows this only if the | | monitoring system is capable of detecting a product loss of 0.1 | | gallons or less per hour. |
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| | | 10. It repeals obsolete language governing bare steel | | underground oil storage tanks. The language is obsolete because | | all such tanks must have been removed from service by October 1, | | 1998. The installation of new bare steel tanks is prohibited. |
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| | | 11. It extends the sunset date of the department's authority | | to enforce federal requirements for spill prevention control and | | countermeasure plans at aboveground storage facilities. |
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| | | 12. It deletes an incongruent reference in the law governing | | the sale of elemental mercury for manufacturing purposes. |
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