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 2019 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   2019  bill amount | $306   $543 | ||
Publicly owned treatment facilities, more than 10,000 gallons per day to 0.1 million gallons per day | annual fee | 2011   2019  bill amount | $400   $689 | ||
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   2019  bill amounts   amount | $617   $1,063 | ||
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   2019  bill amounts   amount | $1,300   $2,241 | ||
Publicly owned treatment facilities, greater than 5 million gallons per day or with significant industrial waste | annual fee | Average of 2009, 2010 and 2011   2019  bill amounts   amount | $4,553   $7,850 | ||
Major industrial facility, process wastewater (based on EPA list of major source discharges) | annual fee | Average of 2009, 2010 and 2011   2019  bill amounts   amount | $19,672   $33,919 | ||
Other industrial facility, process wastewater | annual fee | 2011   2019  bill amount | $1,214   $2,093 | ||
Food handling or packaging wastewater | annual fee | 2011   2019  bill amount | $659   $1,135 | ||
Fish-rearing facility 0.1 million gallons per day or less | annual fee | 2011   2019  bill amount | $312   $538 | ||
Fish-rearing facility over 0.1 million gallons per day | annual fee | 2011   2019  bill amount | $794   $1,368 | ||
Marine aquaculture facility | annual fee | 2011   2019  bill amount | $308   $529 | ||
Noncontact cooling water | annual fee | 2011   2019  bill amount | $192   $330 | ||
Industrial or commercial sources, miscellaneous or incidental nonprocess wastewater | annual fee | 2011   2019  bill amount | $363   $626 | ||
Municipal combined sewer overflow | annual fee | 2011   2019  bill amount | $413   $711 | ||
Sanitary wastewater, excluding overboard discharge | annual fee | 2011   2019  bill amount | $736   $1,268 | ||
Sanitary overboard discharge, commercial sources | annual fee | 2011  bill amount | $446 | $75 | |
Sanitary overboard discharge, residential sources 600 gallons per day or less | annual fee | 2011 bill amount | $231 | $75 | |
Sanitary overboard discharge, residential sources more than 600 gallons per day | annual fee | 2011  bill amount | $313 | $75 | |
Sanitary overboard discharge, public sources | annual fee | 2011 bill amount |