CHAPTER 11

H.P. 576 - L.D. 777

An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding the Location of the Wells

National Estuarine Research Reserve

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. P&SL 1989, c. 108, §4 is amended to read:

*Sec. 4. Location of the reserve. The reserve contains approximately 1,600 acres is located in the Town of Wells and includes lands between the Little River to the north and the Eldridge Ogunquit River to the south. The boundary to the east parallels the shoreline, excluding the shoreline development, and to the west is bordered by the coastal wetland margin includes lands adjacent to the Wells coastal wetlands and within the drainage basins of their tributary streams. Specifically, the reserve contains:

1. Lands in the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service;

2. Land purchased or acquired for a state park managed by the Bureau of Parks and Recreation Department of Conservation;

3. Submerged tidal lands managed by the Bureau of Public Lands Department of Conservation;

4. Land purchased by the Town of Wells or the State; and

5. Land donated by the Town of Wells to the Department of Conservation as a conservation easement.; and