APPROVED CHAPTER
FEBRUARY 15, 2024 496
BY GOVERNOR PUBLIC LAW
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR
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H.P. 1306 - L.D. 2044
An Act to Update Air Quality Health Warnings
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §584-F, as amended by PL 1999, c. 79, §2, is further amended to
read:
§584-F. Ozone Air quality health warnings
1. Dissemination of warnings to media and public. Whenever monitored data
demonstrates or the department predicts that ground-level ozone ambient air concentrations
have exceeded or of a pollutant will exceed .08 parts per million averaged over an 8-hour
period reach the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index
category of Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups or a higher category, the department shall
disseminate a health warning to the mass media, including but not limited to 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. In disseminating a warning under this
subsection, the department shall also use the most appropriate technology available to
disseminate health warnings directly to the public.
2. Telephone hot line Daily ground-level ozone concentration information. The
department shall provide information to the public on daily ground-level ozone
concentrations by a toll-free ozone information telephone hot line hotline or through other
appropriate technology.
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Statutes affected:
Bill Text LD 2044, HP 1306: 38.584
Bill Text ACTPUB , Chapter 496: 38.584