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