‘An Act To Increase the Beneficial Reuse of Waste Materials’
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Session - 127th Maine Legislature C "A", Filing Number S-164, Sponsored by
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LR 1683 Item 2 |
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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Increase the Beneficial Reuse of Waste Materials’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §3210, sub-§2, ¶B-3, as enacted by PL 2009, c. 542, §3, is amended to read:
(1) Whose total power production capacity does not exceed 100 megawatts and relies on one or more of the following:
(a) Fuel cells;
(b) Tidal power;
(c) Solar arrays and installations;
(d) Geothermal installations;
(e) Hydroelectric generators that meet all state and federal fish passage requirements applicable to the generator; or
(f) Biomass generators that are fueled by wood or , wood waste , or landfill gas or anaerobic digestion of agricultural products, by-products or wastes; or
(g) Anaerobic digestion of by-products of waste from animals or agricultural crops, food or vegetative material, algae or organic refuse; or
(2) That relies on wind power installations.
Summary
This amendment replaces the bill. This amendment makes an electricity generator that relies on anaerobic digestion of by-products of waste from animals or agricultural crops, food or vegetative material, algae or organic refuse a renewable capacity resource under the renewable resource portfolio requirements.