The benefits for Texas are two fold. Notwithstanding the costs described above, Maine generators will be assesed disposal fees at the same rate as Texas generators. Simultaneously, Maine pursued efforts to join into a Compact with other States. These activities were coordinated through the Office of the Public Advocate . Stephen Ward, Maine's Public Advocate, was instrumental in negotiating the Texas Compact agreement.
Maine law requires voter approval of low-level radioactive waste compacts by public referendum.
Upon Maine's approval of the Texas Compact, the Authority's siting activities were discontinued. The Authority was formally terminated in June 1994, by the same legislation that transferred non-siting related responsibilities to the Department of Human Services. Remaining current on low-level radioactive waste news.