Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 114 - CLASSIFICATION OF AIR QUALITY CONTROL REGIONS › Section 096-114-1

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
For Prevention of Significant Deterioration purposes the
				  Board hereby classifies Air Quality Control Regions as follows:
A. The Metropolitan Portland Air Quality
				Region, Portland Peninsula Air Quality Region, Central Maine Air Quality
				Region, Downeast Air Quality Region, Aroostook Air Quality Region, and
				Northwest Maine Air Quality Region shall be Class II Regions.
B. The Department shall have the authority to
				designate certain Regions or portions thereof as a nonattainment area according
				to the criteria and procedures set forth in the Federal Clean Air Act, as
				amended.
C. The Board hereby
				recognizes the classification and regulatory requirements of those federal
				lands which have been established as mandatory Class I areas by the Federal
				Clean Air Act: Acadia National Park located in the Downeast and Central Maine
				Air Quality Regions; Moosehorn Wilderness Area located in Moosehorn National
				Wildlife Refuge located in the Downeast Air Quality Region; the Roosevelt
				Campobello International Park located in New Brunswick, Canada, and the
				Presidential Range Dry River Wilderness and Great Gulf Wilderness of the White
				Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire. Federal Class I areas may not be
				redesignated.
(1) The Board identifies the
				following Integral Vistas:
(a)
ROOSEVELT CAMPOBELLO INTERNATIONAL PARK
Observation
							 Point
View
							 Angle
Key
							 Features
Also viewed
							 from
Roosevelt Cottage and Beach Area
244o - 56o
*Estes Head
*Portions viewed from Friar's Head
*Eastport
*North Lubec
*Cobscook Bay
*Shackford Head
*St. Andrews
*Friar's Head
*Treat's Island
*Passamaquoddy Bay
*Deer Island
*Indian Island
*Rouen Island
*Cherry Island
*Thrumcap Island
*Owen House
*Welshpool
Friar's Head
154o - 94o
*Roosevelt Cottage
*Portions viewed from Roosevelt Cottage
							 and Beach area.
*Campobello Island
*Weir
*Friar's Bay
*Welshpool
Wilson's Beach
North Road
*Head Harbour Passage
Casco Island
Green Island
*Pope Island
*Thrumcap Island
*Cherry Island
*Rouen Island
*Indian Island
*Deer Island
*Passamaquoddy Bay
*Old Sow Whirlpool
St. Andrews
*Eastport
*Friar Roads
*Estes Head
*Perry
*Shackford Head
*Pembroke
*Cobscook Bay
*Treat's Island
Major's Island
*North Lubec
*Passamaquoddy Dam (portion of)
Roger's Island
Dudley Island
*Johnson's Bay
Pope's Folly
Cutler Naval Radio
Station
Lubec
Mulholland Point
Lighthouse
FDR Memorial Bridge
South Lubec
Grand Manan Island
Con Robinson's Point
308o -
							 50o
Herring Cove Beach Provincial Park
							 Eastern Head Herring Cove
*Portions viewed from Liberty Point
*Mainland New Brunswick
*Point LaPreau
*Wolf Islands
*Atlantic Ocean
*Grand Manan Island
Liberty Point
34o - 236o
Ragged Point
*Portions viewed from Con Robinson's Point
*Mainland New Brunswick
*Atlantic Ocean
*Wolf Islands
*Grand Manan Island
Sail Rock
West Quoddy Head Lighthouse
South Lubec
(b)
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK
Observation
							 Point
View
							 Angle
Key
							 Features
Cadillac Summit
320o -
							 356o
Lamoine State Park
Mt. Katahdin
Frenchman Bay
356o -
							 32o
Lead Mountain
Schoodic Mountain
Gouldsboro Hills
Calf Island
32o -
							 68o
Porcupine Islands
Stave Island
Jordan Island
Ironbound Island
Gouldsboro Bay
68o -
							 104o
Winter Harbor
Turtle Island
Egg Rock
104o -
							 140o
Atlantic Ocean
(Gulf of Maine)
140o -
							 176o
Atlantic Ocean
Otter Cove
Baker Island
176o -
							 212o
Little Cranberry Island
Duck Islands
Greater Cranberry Island
Seal Harbor
Sutton Island
Long Island
212o -
							 248o
Placentia Island
Sunset
							 Point
192o -
							 228o
Long Island
Placentia Island
Swan Island
Great Gott Island
Isle au Haut
256o -
							 300o
Camden Hills
Bartlett Island
Western Bay
Blue Hill
300o -
							 336o
Thomas Island
Frenchman Bay
336o -
							 12o
Lamoine State Park
Hull's Cove (Acadia
National Park Visitor Center)
Mt. Katahdin
Duck Harbor
							 Mountain
352o -
							 5o
Blue Hill
Caterpillar Mountain
336o -
							 352o
Penobscot Bay
Duck Harbor
Mt. Ephraim
Mt. Waldo
Eagle Island
310o -
							 336o
Islesboro Island
Bald Rock Mountain
Duck Trap Mountain
285o -
							 310o
Megunticook Mountain
Bald Mountain
Dodge Mountain
Vinalhaven Island
270o -
							 285o
Brimstone Island
Vinalhaven Island
Lighthouse Rock
245o -
							 270o
Large Green Island
190o -
							 245o
Matinicus Island
Ragged Island
Wooden Ball Island
Seal Island
Atlantic Ocean