An Act To Ensure Financial Solvency in Maine's Air and Wastewater Licensing Programs
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 0293
Committee: Natural Resources
Sponsors: KOFFMAN, COWGER
Amends: 38 MRSA §353, 38 MRSA §569-A

Legislative Document 
No. 293 
H.P.218 
House of Representatives, January 18,2005 
An Act To Ensure Financial Solvency in Maine's Air and 
Wastewater Licensing Programs 
Submitted by the Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to Joint Rule 204. 
Reference to the Committee on Natural Resources suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative KOFFMAN of Bar Harbor. 
Cosponsored by Senator COWGER of Kennebec . 
Printed on recycled paper 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §353.B. sub-§2. ,A. as amended by PL 2003, c. 
246, §1, is further amended to read: 
A. 
The 
base 
and 
maximum 
fees 
that may 
be assessed to 
categories of discharge activities are as follows. 
Discharge Group 
Publicly owned 
annual fee 
treatment facilities, 
greater than 6,000 
gallons per day but 
less than 5 million 
gallons per day and 
no significant 
industrial waste 
Publicly owned 
annual fee 
treatment facilities, 
6,000 gallons per day 
or less 
Publicly owned 
annual fee 
treatment facilities, 
greater than 5 million 
gallons per day or 
with significant 
industrial waste 
Major industrial 
facility, process 
wastewater (based 
on EPA list of 
major source 
discharges) 
Other industrial 
facility, process 
wastewater 
Food handling or 
packaging waste-
water 
Fish rearing 
facility 
annual fee 
annual fee 
annual fee 
annual fee 
Base fee Maximum fee 
not to 
for individual 
exceed 
in group 
$175 
none 
$60 
$180 
$770 
none 
$1,850 
none 
$630 
none 
$315 
$2,100 
$230 
$1,400 
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Noncontact cooling 
annual fee 
$90 
$7,000 
water 
Industrial or 
annual fee 
$115 
$2,10{) 
commercial sources, 
miscellaneous or 
incidental non-
process wastewater 
Municipal combined 
annual fee 
$115 
$1,400 
sewer overflow 
Sanitary 
annual fee 
$60 
$1, 200 
wastewater, 
excluding 
• 
overboard discharge 
Sanitary 
annual fee 
$210 
$1,200 
overboard 
discharge, 
commercial 
sources 
Sanitary 
annual fee 
$175 
overboard 
discharge, 
residential 
sources 600 
oallons per day 
and less 
Sanitary 
annual fee 
$200 
$600 
overboard 
discharge, 
residential 
sources more 
than 600 
gallons per 
day 
Sanitary 
annual fee 
$210 
$500 
overboard 
discharge, 
public 
sources 
Aquatic pesticide 
annual fee* 
$200 
application 
Snow dumps 
Salt and sand 
storage pile 
Log storage permit 
General permit 
coverage for 
industrial 
stormwater 
discharges 
(except 
construction) 
General permit 
coverage (other) 
Experimental 
discharge license 
Mixing zone, in 
addition to other 
applicable fees 
Formation of 
sanitary district 
Transfer of license 
for residential or 
commercial sanitary 
wastewater 
annual fee* 
$125 
annual fee* 
$150 
annual fee* 
$200 
annual fee* 
annual fee* 
$100 
license fee* 
$500 
flat fee* 
$4,000 
flat fee* 
$300 
flat fee* 
$100 
*Discharge or license quantity fees do not apply to these 
categories. 
When 
a 
license 
authorizes 
multiple 
discharge 
points 
in 
different categories in the same license, the total maximum 
fee for the license may not exceed the maximum fee for the 
most significant category plus 112 of the maximum fee for 
each of the other applicable categories. 
Sec. 2. 38 MRSA §569-A, sub-§8. ~A. as amended by PL 2001, c. 
605, §l, is further amended to read: 
A. 
Administrative expenses, personal services and equipment 
costs of the department related to 
enforcement of this subchapter and 
regulation of air emissions from the 
oil under chapter 4, 
except that 
the administration and 
to the monitor ing and 
distribution and use of 
total disbursements for 
• 
• 
personal services may not exceed :li6r 9QQ r QQQ 
$3 r 700 r 000 per 
fiscal yearr multiplied by an annual adjustment factor of 4~ 
beginning in fiscal year 6QQ6-Q~ 2005-06; 
SUMMARY 
This bill establishes a 
fee of up to $350 for a general 
permit for industrial stormwater discharges issued pursuant to 
the waste discharge laws. 
The general permit fee currently in 
statute is to be used for other types of general permits under 
the waste discharge laws. 
The bill also authorizes disbursements from the Ground Water 
Oil Clean-up Fund to pay costs incurred by the Department of 
Environmental Protection to monitor and regulate air emissions 
from the distribution and use of oil.