Resolve, Clarifying the Conveyance of Land to the Passamaquoddy Tribe in the Town of Meddybemps
Maine Legislature, Session 130, LD 2036
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Sponsors: NEWELL

Legislative Document
No. 2036
H.P. 1518
House of Representatives, March 29, 2022
Resolve, Clarifying the Conveyance of Land to the Passamaquoddy 
Tribe in the Town of Meddybemps
Reference to the Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry suggested and 
ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative NEWELL of the Passamaquoddy Tribe.  (GOVERNOR'S BILL)
Sec. 1. Resolve 2021, c. 133, §1, amended. Resolved: That Resolve 2021, c. 133, 
§1 is amended to read:
Sec. 1.  Authority to convey state land.  Resolved: That, notwithstanding any 
provision of law to the contrary, the State may transfer a certain parcel of land as described 
in section 2 to the Passamaquoddy Tribe, subject to such terms and conditions described in 
sections 3 to 6.
Sec. 2. Resolve 2021, c. 133, §2, repealed and replaced. Resolved: That 
Resolve 2021, c. 133, §2 is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
Sec. 2.  Description of land transferred.  Resolved: That the land authorized to 
be conveyed pursuant to this resolve is a parcel of land of approximately 1.08 acres located 
on the northern side of State Route 191 in Meddybemps, Washington County, described in 
a deed recorded in the Washington County Registry of Deeds, Book 2679, Page 152, 
together with an access and use easement over a parcel of land located on the northern side 
of State Route 191 in Meddybemps, Washington County, described in a deed recorded in 
the Washington County Registry of Deeds, Book 736, Page 157, to the extent such 
easement is permitted by and consistent with federal and state law or regulations and 
funding restrictions and subject to any environmentally protective restrictions that are now 
or may in the future become applicable to the parcel, including but not limited to those set 
forth in records of decision, environmental covenants and similar deed restrictions.
Sec. 3. Resolve 2021, c. 133, §3, amended. Resolved: That Resolve 2021, c. 133, 
§3 is amended to read:
Sec. 3.  Land subject to terms and conditions.  Resolved: That the State may 
convey the parcel land described in section 2 upon such terms and conditions as the 
Commissioner of Environmental Protection considers appropriate and necessary to ensure 
access to the property transferred, compliance with encumbrances of record and inclusion 
of any new restrictions determined necessary by the Department of Environmental 
Protection or the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Sec. 4. Resolve 2021, c. 133, §5, amended. Resolved: That Resolve 2021, c. 133, 
§5 is amended to read:
Sec. 5.  Release of liability for historical contamination.  Resolved: That the 
Passamaquoddy Tribe's compliance with the terms, conditions, encumbrances and 
restrictions described in section 3 releases the Passamaquoddy Tribe of any state 
environmental contamination claims, including natural resource damage claims, that have 
or in the future may accrue to the State or its agencies as a result of the historic 
contamination of the land described in section 2 by parties other than the Passamaquoddy 
Tribe.
SUMMARY
This bill authorizes the State to convey to the Passamaquoddy Tribe, in addition to the 
1.08-acre parcel of land located on the northern side of State Route 191 in Meddybemps, 
Washington County, described in Resolve 2021, chapter 133, an access and use easement 
over a parcel of land located on the northern side of State Route 191 in Meddybemps, 
Washington County, all of which is a portion of a site known as the Eastern Surplus 
Company Superfund Site.