CHAPTER 93

H.P. 1205 - L.D. 1626

Resolve, To Authorize the State To Purchase a Landfill in

the City of Old Town

Sec. 1. Acquisition of landfill authorized. Resolved: That, notwithstanding anything in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 1825-B, subsection 1, Title 38, section 1310-X and Title 38, chapter 24 to the contrary, the following provisions apply.

1. The Executive Department, State Planning Office, referred to in this section as "the office," may acquire, own and cause to be operated an existing, Department of Environmental Protection- licensed and generator-owned solid waste disposal facility in the City of Old Town known as the West Old Town Landfill, referred to in this resolve as "the disposal facility," under such terms and conditions as are revenue-neutral to the State and as the office determines are advisable and in the public interest. The acquisition may be subject to a possibility of reverter to the seller.

2. The office may establish the terms and conditions of, and execute and deliver, in the name of and on behalf of the State, all contracts the office determines are necessary or appropriate to effect the acquisition and operation of the disposal facility and to undertake all actions the office determines necessary or appropriate to fully perform all obligations established under the contracts. The acquisition agreement must provide that the current owner of the disposal facility is responsible for environmental liability associated with the operation of the disposal facility prior to acquisition