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31st thereafter, on progress made in achieving the requirements | | specified in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, section 420, | | subsection 2. On February 16, 2004, the Commissioner of | | Environmental Protection and the Commissioner of Health and Human | | Services shall present to the Governor and the joint standing | | committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over natural | | resources matters a comprehensive assessment on the progress in | | eliminating the discharge of dioxin from bleach kraft pulp mills in | | this State. The assessment must report on: |
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| | | 1. Dioxin concentrations in fish above and below mills and | | the health implications of those concentrations; |
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| | | 2. Any evidence that dioxin is being discharged from any | | mill; |
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| | | 3. Current technology that achieves no discharge of dioxin; |
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| | | 4. The need for continuing the dioxin monitoring program; and |
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| | | 5. Other known sources of dioxin polluting rivers in this | | State. |
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| | | The commissioners shall make recommendations regarding any | | additional action that may be warranted. |
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| | | Sec. 35. Resolve 2003, c. 130, §1 is amended to read: |
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| | | *Sec. 1. Adoption. Resolved: That final adoption of Chapter 355: Sand | | Dune Rules, a provisionally adopted major substantive rule of the | | Department of Environmental Protection that has been submitted to | | the Legislature for review pursuant to the Maine Revised | | Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A, |
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| | | is authorized only if Chapter 355 is amended in that section | | relating to new construction in frontal dunes and designated as | section 6, paragraph B, subparagraph (1) (3) to provide that | | elevators, in addition to ramps, that are required for compliance | | with the requirements of the federal Americans with Disabilities | | Act are exempt from the requirement that a new structure or | | addition to an existing structure may not be constructed on or | | seaward of a frontal dune. The rule must also be amended to | | provide that elevators or ramps serving buildings required to | | comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act must be | | designed and constructed so as to minimize intrusion on the | | frontal dune, including locating the structures to the rear of | | buildings or within areas of a lot already developed, such as a | | parking area. The Department of Environmental Protection is not | | required to hold hearings or conduct other formal proceedings |
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