CHAPTER 227
S.P. 162 - L.D. 443
An Act To List Agriculture as a Designated Use in Water Quality Standards
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §465, sub-§1, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 698, §15, is amended to read:
A. Class AA waters shall must be of such quality that they are suitable for the designated uses of drinking water after disinfection, fishing, agriculture, recreation in and on the water and, navigation and as habitat for fish and other aquatic life. The habitat shall must be characterized as free flowing free-flowing and natural.
Sec. 2. 38 MRSA §465, sub-§2, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 698, §15, is amended to read:
A. Class A waters shall must be of such quality that they are suitable for the designated uses of drinking water after disinfection; fishing; agriculture; recreation in and on the water; industrial process and cooling water supply; hydroelectric power generation, except as prohibited under Title 12, section 403; and navigation; and as habitat for fish and other aquatic life. The habitat shall must be characterized as natural.
Sec. 3. 38 MRSA §465, sub-§3, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 698, §15, is amended to read:
A. Class B waters shall must be of such quality that they are suitable for the designated uses of drinking water supply after treatment; fishing; agriculture; recreation in and on the water; industrial process and cooling water supply; hydroelectric power generation, except as prohibited under Title 12, section 403; and navigation; and as habitat for fish and other aquatic life. The habitat shall must be characterized as unimpaired.
Sec. 4. 38 MRSA §465, sub-§4, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 698, §15, is amended to read:
A. Class C waters shall must be of such quality that they are suitable for the designated uses of drinking water supply after treatment; fishing; agriculture; recreation in and on the water; industrial process and cooling water supply; hydroelectric power generation, except as prohibited under Title 12, section 403; and navigation; and as a habitat for fish and other aquatic life.
Sec. 5. 38 MRSA §465-A, sub-§1, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 698, §15, is amended to read:
A. Class GPA waters shall must be of such quality that they are suitable for the designated uses of drinking water after disinfection, recreation in and on the water, fishing, agriculture, industrial process and cooling water supply, hydroelectric power generation and, navigation and as habitat for fish and other aquatic life. The habitat shall must be characterized as natural.
Sec. 6. 38 MRSA §465-B, sub-§1, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 698, §15, is amended to read:
A. Class SA waters shall must be of such quality that they are suitable for the designated uses of recreation in and on the water, fishing, aquaculture, propagation and harvesting of shellfish and, navigation and as habitat for fish and other estuarine and marine life. The habitat shall must be characterized as free-flowing and natural.
Sec. 7. 38 MRSA §465-B, sub-§2, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 698, §15, is amended to read:
A. Class SB waters shall must be of such quality that they are suitable for the designated uses of recreation in and on the water, fishing, aquaculture, propagation and harvesting of shellfish, industrial process and cooling water supply, hyroelectric hydroelectric power generation and, navigation and as habitat for fish and other estuarine and marine life. The habitat shall must be characterized as unimpaired.
Sec. 8. 38 MRSA §465-B, sub-§3, ¶A, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 698, §15, is amended to read:
A. Class SC waters shall must be of such quality that they are suitable for recreation in and on the water, fishing, aquaculture, propagation and restricted harvesting of shellfish, industrial process and cooling water supply, hydroelectric power generation and, navigation and as a habitat for fish and other estuarine and marine life.
Sec. 9. Effective date. Those sections of this Act that amend the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, section 465, subsection 1, paragraph A; subsection 2, paragraph A; subsection 3, paragraph A; and subsection 4, paragraph A and section 465-A, subsection 1, paragraph A take effect when the water use standards for maintaining in-stream flows are finally adopted as provided in Title 38, section 470-E.
Effective September 13, 2003, unless otherwise indicated.
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