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Amend the resolve by striking out all of section 1 and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1 Adoption. Resolved: That, contingent upon the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 29-A, section 2354-D, subsection 1 being amended to repeal the exclusion from the commercial motor vehicle configurations that may be allowed to operate on specified routes of travel by the Commissioner of Transportation of truck tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination vehicles in which the 2 trailing units are connected with a B-train assembly, final adoption of Rules for Permitting Overlimit Commercial Motor Vehicles of Specified Configurations To Travel Designated Routes, a provisionally adopted major substantive rule of the Department of Transportation that has been submitted to the Legislature for review pursuant to Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A outside the legislative rule acceptance period, is authorized only if the following changes are made:
1. The rule must be amended in Section 2 to provide that the process described in the rule for permitting overlimit commercial motor vehicles of specified configurations to travel designated routes, referred to as "special haul routes," is available to B-train double configurations, as defined in Title 29-A, section 2354-C, subsection 2; and
2. The rule must be amended in Section 9 to provide that B-train double configurations, as defined in Title 29-A, section 2354-C, subsection 2, are allowed.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment requires the Department of Transportation to make additional changes to Rules for Permitting Overlimit Commercial Motor Vehicles of Specified Configurations To Travel Designated Routes, a major substantive rule of the department, before final adoption is authorized. It requires the department to provide that B-train double configurations are allowed on designated routes, contingent upon passage into law of changes allowing B-train double configuration to be used on those routes.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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