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PUBLIC LAWS OF MAINE
First Regular Session of the 119th

CHAPTER 79

H.P. 549 - L.D. 770

An Act to Make the Laws Governing State Ambient Air Quality for Ozone and Particulate Matter Consistent with Federal Requirements

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

     Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §584-A, sub-§1, ¶A, as repealed and replaced by PL 1989, c. 155, §1, is amended to read:

     Sec. 2. 38 MRSA §584-F, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 306, §3, is amended to read:

     1. Dissemination of warnings to media. Whenever monitored data demonstrates or the department predicts that ground-level ozone concentrations have exceeded or will exceed 81 .08 parts per billion million averaged over an 8-hour period, the department shall disseminate a health warning to the mass media, including television, radio and print media, and shall urge the media to issue the warning to the general public. The department shall use best efforts to educate the media as to the need to broadly disseminate health warnings to the public.

Effective September 18, 1999, unless otherwise indicated.

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