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An Act To Ensure Adequate Funding for the Maine Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and Waste Discharge Licensing Program
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §353-B, sub-§2, ¶A, as corrected by RR 2011, c. 2, §43, is amended to read:
 
A. The fees for waste discharge license groups are the 2019 bill amounts increased by a factor of 1.4 as follows.
 
On an annual basis, municipalities and publicly owned treatment works whose combined sewer overflows have the potential to affect shellfish harvesting areas as determined by the department by virtue of their locations within estuarine or marine waters of the State must be assessed a surcharge on their wastewater discharge licenses in a total amount of $12,000. This amount must be allocated among the municipalities and publicly owned treatment works according to their prior 3-year average annual flows as reported to the department.
 
On an annual basis, publicly owned treatment works whose outfalls licensed for the discharge of treated effluent cause adjacent shellfish growing areas to be closed for the purposes of harvesting shellfish must be assessed a license surcharge in a total amount of $25,000. This amount must be allocated among the publicly owned treatment works according to the acreage that each licensed outfall closes. This acreage must be determined by the Department of Marine Resources in consultation with the department.
Sec. 2. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF
 
Maine Environmental Protection Fund 0421
 
Initiative: Allocates funds for expenditures associated with license or permit activities such as application reviews, public hearings and appeals, the actual license or permit processing activities and associated post-license or post-permit compliance activities and enforcement activities as a result of license or permit noncompliance.

OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS	2019-20	2020-21	
All Other	$0	$340,077	
			
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL	$0	$340,077	

Effective 90 days following adjournment of the 129th Legislature, Second Regular Session, unless otherwise indicated.