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Amend the resolve by striking out all of section 1 and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1 Adoption. Resolved: That final adoption of portions of Chapter 500: Stormwater Management, 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, is authorized only if the following changes are made:
1. The rule must be amended in section 4, subsection E to clarify, for the purposes of the urban impaired stream standard, that where there is a department-approved management and monitoring plan in place and monitoring demonstrates that a stressor in the watershed, which may be either a pollutant or a failure to meet a water quality standard, is contributing to the impairment of the urban impaired stream, the department may require the applicant to use alternative or additional stormwater treatment measures to address the identified stressor; and
2. The rule must be amended in section 14 to extend the permit shield provision to the implementation of innovative measures to increase the probability that low-impact development measures will be installed.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment authorizes final adoption of portions of Chapter 500: Stormwater Management, a provisionally adopted major substantive rule of the Department of Environmental Protection, only if certain changes are made to the provisionally adopted rule sections on the urban impaired stream standard and the permit shield provision.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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