Code of Maine Rules › 19 - DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT › 498 - OFFICE OF TOURISM AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT › Chapter 22 - RIVERFRONT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BOND PROGRAM RULES › Section 498-22-1 - Definitions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
As used in these rules, unless the context otherwise
				  indicates, the following terms have the following meanings:
1. Bank:"Bank" shall mean the Maine Municipal
				Bond Bank.
2. Comprehensive Plan:
				"Comprehensive Plan" shall mean a plan that is determined by the Executive
				Department, State Planning Office to be consistent with
				 30-A MRSA
				§4326 subsections
				1 to
				4
				and that has been adopted by the municipality.
3. Department: "Department" shall mean the
				Department of Economic and Community Development.
4. Downtown: "Downtown shall mean the central
				business district of a community that serves as the center for socioeconomic
				interaction in the community and is characterized by a cohesive core of
				commercial and mixed-use buildings, often interspersed with civic, religious
				and residential buildings and public spaces, typically arranged along a main
				street and intersecting side streets, walkable and served by public
				infrastructure; or an area identified as a downtown in a comprehensive plan
				adopted pursuant to chapter 187, subchapter II.
5. Eligible Applicant: "Eligible Applicant"
				shall mean a Maine town, city or plantation located on a Maine River as
				identified in Number 8 below; further to be considered an "Eligible Applicant"
				the community must have received written approval from the Department that the
				community's Letter of Intent with attached letter of sponsorship from a State
				Agency, was received, by the stated due date. Multiple eligible applicants may
				join together to submit a multi-jurisdictional application providing that each
				benefitting community is located on a Maine River.
6. Fund: "Fund" shall mean the Riverfront
				Community Development Bond.
7.
				Letter of Intent: "Letter of Intent" shall mean a form that is provided by the
				Department to all potential applicants to the Fund and which must be completed
				and returned to the Department by the stated due date established by the Panel.
				All Letters of Intent must comply with §
									8(1)(a-c) of this
				Rule.
8. Maine River: "Maine River"
				shall mean one of the following Maine recognized rivers as identified in Title
				38, Chapter 3, Subchapter 1, Article 4-A, § 467 that are in the river
				basins listed below having a drainage area greater than 100 square miles:
Androscoggin River Basin:
Androscoggin River, Little Androscoggin
				River, Cupsuptic River, Kennebago River, Rapid River, Magalloway River, Bear
				River, Sabattus River, Webb River, Swift River, Nezinscot River, Wild River;
Dennys River Basin;
Dennys River;
East Machias River
				Basin;
East Machias River;
Kennebec River
Basin:
Kennebec River, Carrabassett River, Dead River, Moose
				River, Sandy River, Sebasticook River;
Machias River Basin;
Machias River;
Medomak River Basin;
Medomak River;
Mousam River Basin;
Mousam River;
Narraguagus River Basin;
Narraguagus River;
Penobscot River Basin:
Penobscot River,
				Seboeis River, Stillwater River, Mattawamkeag River, Piscataquis River,
				Pleasant River, Passadumkeag River;
Pleasant River Basin:
Pleasant
				River;Eastern Little River;
Presumpscot River Basin:
Presumpscot
				River, Crooked River;
Narraguagus River Basin;
Narraguagus
				River;
Royal River Basin;
Royal River;
Saco River Basin:
Saco River, Little Ossipee River, Ossipee River;
St. Croix River
				Basin;
St. Croix River;
St. George River Basin;
St. George
				River;
St. John River Basin:
St. John River, Allagash River,
				Aroostook River, Little Machias River, Little Madawaska River, Machias River,
				Fish River, Meduxnekeag River, Big Black River;
Salmon Falls River Basin;
Salmon Falls River;
Sheepscot River Basin;
Sheepscot River;
Union River Basin;
Union River.
Communities wishing to apply
				for a project located on a river not listed above must receive permission from
				DECD prior to the submission of the Letter of Intent.
9. Panel: The "Panel" shall mean the
				Riverfront Community Development Review Panel, established to evaluate
				proposals and determine funding under the program. The Panel will consist of:
a. The Commissioner of Economic and Community
				Development or designee;
b. The
				Commissioner of Conservation or designee;
c. The Director of the State Planning Office
				within the Executive Department or designee; and
d. Four members of the public, one with
				expertise in economic and community development, one with expertise in
				environmental conservation, one with expertise in tourism and ecotourism
				development and promotion and one with expertise in park and trail design and
				development. Two of these members are appointed by the President of the Senate
				and two by the Speaker of the House.