Sec. 1. Water storage reservoirs; rules. Resolved: That the Department of Environmental Protection, Board of Environmental Protection shall adopt rules under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, section 464, subsection 5 relating to protocols and procedures for evaluation of the resident biological community in water storage reservoirs. In adopting the rules, the Board of Environmental Protection shall recognize that water storage reservoirs are artificial and are not natural water bodies, and the rules must ensure that the existing uses of water storage reservoirs are maintained and protected. In issuing licenses, permits and certifications prior to final adoption of the rules, the Department of Environmental Protection shall recognize that water storage reservoirs are artificial and are not natural water bodies and shall ensure that the existing uses of water storage reservoirs are maintained and protected. The goal of the rules and any license, permit or certification must be to require that the structure and function of the resident biological community that must be maintained in a water storage reservoir is the structure and function that would be expected to exist in a water storage reservoir with a drawdown of similar magnitude. As used in this resolve, "water storage reservoir" means an impoundment associated with a hydropower project, as defined by Title 38, section 632, that was in existence prior to November 28, 1975, was not primarily lacustrine in its natural state, is classified under Title 38, section 465-A and is managed to store and release water on an annual cycle to benefit downstream hydropower generation.