An Act To Revise Notification Requirements for Pesticide Application
Maine Legislature, Session 125, LD 0228
House Amendment HA_C_H350 (House)

HOUSE AMENDMENT ,{!" to H.P. 181, L.D. 228, Bill, "An Act To Revise 
Notification Requirements for Pesticide Application" 
Amend the bill by adding after section 2 the following: 
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'Sec. 3. 
Transfer of names to nonagricultural pesticide application 
registry. 
If the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, Board of 
Pesticides Control, referred to in this section as "the board," fails to maintain a registry of 
residents, lessees and property owners who request that they receive advance notification 
of the outdoor application of agricultural pesticides, the board shall transfer all the names 
on such a registry maintained by the board as of May I, 20 I I to the Maine pesticide 
notification registry for nonagricultural pesticide applications established pursuant to 
Rule Chapter 28, Section 2. A person whose name is transferred pursuant to this section 
may not be charged a fee for that transfer. 
Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 7, section 610, subsection 6, 
paragraph B, an amendment to Rule Chapter 28 necessary to implement the requirements 
of this section is routine technical rulemaking as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, 
subchapter 2-A and must be adopted and in effect no later than January 1,2012.' 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
The bill repeals the statutory requirement that the Department of Agriculture, Food 
and Rural Resources, Board of Pesticides Control establish a registry of persons who 
request to receive advance notification of the outdoor application of pesticides; the 
registry applies to notification of agricultural pesticide applications. 
The board, by rule, 
also established a registry of persons who request to receive advance notification of the 
outdoor application of nonagricultural pesticides, known as the Maine Pesticide 
Notification Registry. 
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HOUSE AMENDMENT 
HOUSE AMENDMENT "0' to H.P. 181, L.D. 228 
This amendment requires the board, when the statutorily required agricultural 
pesticide application registry is repealed, to transfer all the names on that registry to the 
Maine Pesticide Notification Registry and prohibits the board from charging a fee for that 
transfer. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
SPONSORED BY: -+a."q.~~~~>L-()~b~----
(Representative O'BRIEN) 
TOWN: Lincolnville 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 05/23/11
LD 228
LR 790(11)
Fiscal Detail and Notes
Additional costs to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources associated with transferring names on 
the agricultural pesticide application registry to the Maine Pesticide Notification Registry can be absorbed with 
existing staff and within existing budgeted resources.
Fiscal Note
Minor cost increase - Other Special Revenue Funds
An Act To Revise Notification Requirements for Pesticide Application
Fiscal Note for House Amendment "   "
Sponsor: Rep. O'Brien of Lincolnville
Fiscal Note Required: Yes
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