CHAPTER 421

H.P. 257 - L.D. 334

An Act Allowing Certain Commercial Vehicles at Canadian

Weight Limits To Travel from the Canadian Border at Calais

to Baileyville

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

Sec. 1. 29-A MRSA §2354-B is enacted to read:

§2354-B.__Pilot project to allow commercial vehicles at

Canadian weight limits to travel from the

Canadian border at Calais to Baileyville

1.__Pilot project.__Notwithstanding section 2354, the Commissioner of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and the Department of the Secretary of State, is authorized to conduct a pilot project that allows certain commercial vehicles at Canadian gross vehicle weight limits to travel from the Canadian border at Calais to Baileyville.__This pilot project must include the following conditions and components.

A. The only allowable route of travel under the pilot project is travel from the United States-Canada border in Calais, across North Street to U.S. Route 1, north on U.S. Route 1 to Access Road in Baileyville, east on Access Road to Domtar Woodland Mill on Main Street and north on Main Street to the Louisiana-Pacific Oriented Strand Board mill in Baileyville.