HP1303
LD 1832
Session - 129th Maine Legislature
 
LR 2404
Item 1
Bill Tracking, Additional Documents Chamber Status

An Act To Ensure Adequate Funding for the Maine Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and Waste Discharge Licensing Program

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §353-B, sub-§2, ¶A,  as corrected by RR 2011, c. 2, §43, is amended to read:

A. The fees for waste discharge license groups are the 2018 bill amounts increased by a factor of 1.4 as follows.
Discharge group Basis for annual fee Median fee for discharge group Water quality improvement surcharge
Publicly owned treatment facilities, 10,000 gallons per day or less annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $306  $529
Publicly owned treatment facilities, more than 10,000 gallons per day to 0.1 million gallons per day annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $400  $672
Publicly owned treatment facilities, more than 0.1 million gallons per day to 1.0 million gallons per day annual fee Average of 2009, 2010 and 2011  2018 bill amounts  amount $617  $1,036
Publicly owned treatment facilities, more than 1.0 million gallons per day to 5.0 million gallons per day annual fee Average of 2009, 2010 and 2011  2018 bill amounts  amount $1,300  $2,184
Publicly owned treatment facilities, greater than 5 million gallons per day or with significant industrial waste annual fee Average of 2009, 2010 and 2011  2018 bill amounts  amount $4,553  $7,648
Major industrial facility, process wastewater (based on EPA list of major source discharges) annual fee Average of 2009, 2010 and 2011  2018 bill amounts  amount $19,672  $33,042
Other industrial facility, process wastewater annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $1,214  $2,040
Food handling or packaging wastewater annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $659  $1,106
Fish-rearing facility 0.1 million gallons per day or less annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $312  $524
Fish-rearing facility over 0.1 million gallons per day annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $794  $1,333
Marine aquaculture facility annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $308  $515
Noncontact cooling water annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $192  $322
Industrial or commercial sources, miscellaneous or incidental nonprocess wastewater annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $363  $609
Municipal combined sewer overflow annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $413  $693
Sanitary wastewater, excluding overboard discharge annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $736  $1,731
Sanitary overboard discharge, commercial sources annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $446 $75
Sanitary overboard discharge, residential sources 600 gallons per day or less annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $231 $75
Sanitary overboard discharge, residential sources more than 600 gallons per day annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $313 $75
Sanitary overboard discharge, public sources annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $315 $75
Aquatic pesticide application annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $644  $1,082
Snow dumps annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $319  $536
Salt and sand storage pile annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $429  $719
Log storage permit annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $422  $708
General permit coverage for industrial storm water discharges (except construction) annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $300  $573
General permit coverage for marine aquaculture facility annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $134  $224
General permit coverage (other) annual fee 2011  2018 bill amount $164  $274
Experimental discharge license license fee 2011  2018 bill amount $899  $1,509
New or amended mixing zone, in addition to other applicable fees flat fee $5,368  $8,966 ---
Formation of sanitary district flat fee $402  $675 ---
Transfer of license for residential or commercial sanitary wastewater flat fee $100  $140 ---

On an annual basis, municipalities and publicly owned treatment works whose combined sewer overflows have the potential to affect shellfish harvesting areas as determined by the department by virtue of their locations within estuarine or marine waters of the State must be assessed a surcharge on their wastewater discharge licenses in a total amount of $12,000. This amount must be allocated among the municipalities and publicly owned treatment works according to their prior 3-year average annual flows as reported to the department.

On an annual basis, publicly owned treatment works whose outfalls licensed for the discharge of treated effluent cause adjacent shellfish growing areas to be closed for the purposes of harvesting shellfish must be assessed a license surcharge in a total amount of $25,000. This amount must be allocated among the publicly owned treatment works according to the acreage that each licensed outfall closes. This acreage must be determined by the Department of Marine Resources in consultation with the department.

summary

This bill increases the annual waste discharge license fee for certain categories of existing discharges by 40% from the 2018 bill amount, and the annual discharge license fee for certain categories of new discharges by 40% from the amount indicated in the Department of Environmental Protection fee schedule effective November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019.


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