Code of Maine Rules › 06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL › Chapter 700 - WELLHEAD PROTECTION: SITING OF FACILITIES THAT POSE A SIGNIFICANT THREAT TO DRINKING WATER › Section 096-700-2 - Definitions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
The following terms as used in this rule have the following
				  meanings:
A.
Automobile body
				shop.
"Automobile body shop" means any commercial facility that engages
				in the repair, replacement, painting, or alteration of automobile and other
				motorized vehicle bodies or body parts.
B.
Automobile maintenance and repair
				facility.
"Automobile maintenance and repair facility" means any
				commercial facility, including fleet garages, engaged in the repair or
				replacement of car, truck and van, motorcycle or other motorized vehicle
				mechanical or exhaust components , or in the replacement of motor oil and other
				lubricants and fluids.
C.
Automobile graveyard.
"Automobile graveyard" has the same meaning as
				found in 30-A M.R.S.A. §3752(1) which states, in part, means a yard, field
				or other outdoor area used to store 3 or more unregistered or uninspected motor
				vehicles, as defined in 29-A M.R.S.A. §101(42), or parts of the vehicles.
				"Automobile graveyard" includes an area used for automobile dismantling,
				salvage and recycling operations.
D.
Board.
"Board" means the
				Board of Environmental Protection.
E.
Automobile recycling business.
"Automobile recycling business" has the same meaning as found in 30-A
				M.R.S.A. §3752(1-A) which states, in part, means the business premises of
				a dealer or a recycler licensed under 29-A M.R.S.A. §§851 to 1112 who
				purchases or acquires salvage vehicles for the purpose of reselling the
				vehicles or component parts of the vehicles or rebuilding or repairing salvage
				vehicles for the purpose of resale or for selling the basic materials in the
				salvage vehicles, as long as 80% of the business premises specified in the site
				plan in section 30-A M.R.S.A. §3755-A(1)(C) is used for automobile
				recycling operations.
F.
Commercial hazardous waste facility.
"Commercial hazardous waste
				facility" means a facility which accepts, for handling, hazardous wastes other
				than those generated on site by the owner of the facility. The handling of
				residual hazardous wastes generated on site in the process of handling
				hazardous wastes is included within the scope of the facility's operations.
				Commercial hazardous waste facility includes mobile treatment
				facilities.
G.
Commissioner.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Environmental
				Protection.
H.
Community
				drinking water well.
"Community drinking water well" means a public
				drinking water well that supplies a community water system as defined under 22
				M.R.S.A. §2660-B(2).
I.
CMR.
"CMR" means the Code of Maine Rules.
J.
Department.
"Department"
				means the Department of Environmental Protection composed of the Board of
				Environmental Protection and the commissioner.
K.
Dry cleaning facility.
"Dry
				cleaning facility" means a facility engaged in the cleaning of garments in
				perchloroethylene by means of one or more washes in the solvent, extraction of
				the solvent by spinning, and drying by tumbling in an air stream. The facility
				includes, but is not limited to any washer, dryer, emission control device(s),
				exhaust dampers, diverter valves, filter purification system, waste disposal
				system, stills, holding tank, muck cooker, water separators, filters, solvent
				containers, pump and attendant piping, hoses, ducts and valves. Terms used in
				this definition have the same meaning as found in Perchloroethylene Dry Cleaner
				Regulation, 06-096 CMR, Chapter 125(2) (last amended Jan. 14, 2003).
L.
Facility.
"Facility", as used
				in this rule, means a facility that poses a significant threat to drinking
				water.
M.
Facilities that
				pose a significant threat to drinking water.
"Facilities that pose a
				significant threat to drinking water" for the purposes of this rule include:
(1) An automobile graveyard as defined in
				30-A M.R.S.A. §3752, subsection 1 or automobile recycling business as
				defined in 30-A M.R.S.A. §3752(1-A);
(2) An automobile body shop or other
				commercial automobile maintenance and repair facility;
(3) A dry cleaning facility that uses
				perchloroethylene;
(4) A metal
				finishing or plating facility; and
(5) A commercial hazardous waste facility as
				defined under Maine Hazardous Waste, Septage and Solid Waste Management Act, 38
				M.R.S.A. §1303-C(4).