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the State Budget Officer, the Governor may approve necessary | | adjustments to these consolidations for a period not to extend | | beyond the end of the current fiscal year.__The Director of the | | Office of Fiscal and Program Review must be notified of any such | | action.__The unencumbered balance of each administrative account | | established pursuant to this section must be carried forward at the | | end of each fiscal year, and the budgeted transfers to the | | administrative account for the ensuing fiscal year must be | | proportionally reduced by the amount of that carried balance. |
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| | | Sec. U-1. 12 MRSA §9321, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2001, c. 626, §2, is | | further amended to read: |
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| | | 1. Criteria. In issuing any permit or permission for | | allowable burning, the director shall consider the following | | criteria: |
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| | | A. Forest fire danger indices and location of proposed | | burning; |
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| | | B. The time of day and season of the year; |
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| | | C. The temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction; |
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| | | D. The matter and type of burning proposed, giving due | | consideration to prohibitions and permissible open-burning | | rules of the Department of Environmental Protection; |
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| | | E. With regard to recreational fires, the feasibility of | | use of public campsites; |
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| | | F. The length of the burning period; |
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| | | G. The presence or availability of sufficient force and | | equipment to control the burning; |
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| | | H. Experience and capability of the permittee in the safe | | use and control of the proposed burning; |
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| | | I. In issuing a permit under section 9325, subsection 1, | | paragraph E, any prior convictions for violating that | | paragraph or section 9324, subsection 7-A; and |
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| | | J. In issuing a permit under section 9325, subsection 1, | | paragraph E, the public health risk from toxic chemicals in the | | smoke plume in accordance with guidelines issued by the | | Department of Environmental Protection and the practicality |
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