An Act To Update Laws Regulating the Maine Emergency Management Agency
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1531
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Sponsors: GERZOFSKY, LAJOIE, SYKES
Amends: 37-B MRSA §797

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124th MAl E LEGISLATURE 
Legislative Document 
No. 1531 
S.P.589 
In Senate, December 17, 2009 
An Act To Update Laws Regulating the Maine Emergency 
Management Agency 
Submitted by the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Ma..llagement pursuant 
to Joint Rule 204. 
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on December 17,2009. Referred to the Committee 
on Criminal Justice and Public Safety pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed. 
Presented by Senator GERZOFSKY of Cumberland. 
Cosponsored by Representative LAJOIE of Lewiston and 
Representative: SYKES of Harrison. 
Printed an recycled paper 
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JOY J. O'BRIEN 
Secretary of the Senate 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 37-B MRSA §797, as amended by PL 2009, c. 252, §5, is further amended 
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to read: 
§797. Maine chemical inventory report 
A person required to submit a facility emergency response plan, material safety data 
sheet or list of hazardous chemicals and extremely hazardous substances must submit a 
Maine chemical inventory report to the commission, the local emergency planning 
committee and the local fire department with jurisdiction over the facility. The inventory 
report and fee must be submitted by March 1 st annually for the previous calendar year, 
e}wept that the inventory report and fee may be submitted ""'itll the registration fee in the 
year of reporting if the reporting facility can project its inventory levels for the current 
year. Information on the inventory of extremely hazardous substances and hazardous 
chemicals for the previous calendar year is required in the repOli. This report must state, 
at a minimum: 
1. Chemical name. The chem, ;;al name of each substance listed; 
2. Maximum weight. The maximum number of pounds of each substance present at 
any time during the preceding year; 
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_________ 3. Ave.rage anwunt. The average daily amount of each substance present during the 
preceding year; 
4. Chemical storage. A brief description of the manner of the chemical's storage; 
5. Chemical location. The chemical's location at the facility; 
6. Information withholding. An indication if the person is electing to withhold 
information from disclosure under section 800; 
7. Transportation. A description of the manner in which the substance is shipped to 
the facility, including standard and alternate transportation routes taken through the State 
from point of origin or entry to the facility. Records held by the commission regarding 
standard and alternate transportation routes are confidential records for the purposes of 
Title 1, chapter 13, subchapter 1. The commission may provide those records to state, 
county or local emergency management agencies or public officials, as the commission 
determines necessary, but shall require those agencies or officials to hold those records as 
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confidential; and 
8. Progress toward toxics use reduction goals. For those persons required to 
submit a report under this section for extremely hazardous substances, a report on the 
progress made by the facility toward meeting the toxics use reduction goals established in 
Title 38, section 2303. 
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SUMMARY 
This bill removes the provIsIOn permitting a prospective hazardous chemical and 
substance inventory repOli and fee based on projected inventory levels to be submitted to 
the Maine Emergency Management Agency at the time of registration and leaves the 
requirement that the inventory repOli and fee for the previous year be submitted annually 
on March 1 s1.