CHAPTER 441

H.P. 510 - L.D. 693

An Act To Ensure the Safety of Children Touring Incinerator

Facilities

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

Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §590-F is enacted to read:

§590-F.__Safety precautions for children touring incinerator

facilities

A resource recovery facility burning municipal solid waste may not permit students who have not yet entered 7th grade to enter the facility for the purpose of touring the facility.__Prior to allowing 7th grade, 8th grade and secondary school students of a public or private school to enter a resource recovery facility that burns municipal solid waste for the purpose of touring the facility:

1.__List of violations to superintendent or headmaster.__The facility shall send to the office of the superintendent within the school administrative unit or to the headmaster of the private school a list of air quality violations issued to the facility by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration within the last 2 years; and

2.__List to parents.__The office of the superintendent or the headmaster shall send the list of violations under subsection 1 to the parent or guardian of any participating student.