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LD407 • 2025

Resolve, to Ensure the Removal of Aqueous Film-forming Foam from the Former Brunswick Naval Air Station

Resolve, to Ensure the Removal of Aqueous Film-forming Foam from the Former Brunswick Naval Air Station

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Representative Daniel Ankeles
Last action
2025-05-23
Official status
Signed by the Governor
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Resolve, to Ensure the Removal of Aqueous Film-forming Foam from the Former Brunswick Naval Air Station

Resolve, to Ensure the Removal of Aqueous Film-forming Foam from the Former Brunswick Naval Air Station Sponsor: Representative Daniel Ankeles Reference committee: Environment and Natural Resources Governor action: Signed by the Governor

What This Bill Does

  • Resolve, to Ensure the Removal of Aqueous Film-forming Foam from the Former Brunswick Naval Air Station Sponsor: Representative Daniel Ankeles Reference committee: Environment and Natural Resources Governor action: Signed by the Governor

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Adopted by House & Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR0102(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR0102(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 407 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Clerk of the House.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to H.P.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-23 Governor

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-05-21 Senate

    FINALLY PASSED , in concurrence.

  3. 2025-05-20 House

    FINALLY PASSED . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  4. 2025-05-09 Committee

    Reported Out; OTP-AM/ONTP

  5. 2025-03-19 Committee

    Work Session Held

  6. 2025-03-19 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  7. 2025-03-05 Committee

    Work Session Held; TABLED

  8. 2025-02-04 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.

Official Summary Text

Resolve, to Ensure the Removal of Aqueous Film-forming Foam from the Former Brunswick Naval Air Station
Sponsor:
Representative Daniel Ankeles
Reference committee:
Environment and Natural Resources
Governor action:
Signed by the Governor

Current Bill Text

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Page 1 - 132LR0102(03)
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
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H.P. 261 - L.D. 407
Resolve, to Ensure the Removal of Aqueous Film-forming Foam from the
Former Brunswick Naval Air Station
Sec. 1. Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority; activities regarding
removal of aqueous film-forming foam. Resolved: That the Midcoast Regional
Redevelopment Authority, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section
13083-G and referred to in this resolve as "the authority," shall take all necessary steps to
ensure that:
1. No later than December 31, 2025, all fire suppression systems and any other systems
containing aqueous film-forming foam that are located on any property leased or owned by
the authority are shut off or otherwise made incapable of dispensing or releasing aqueous
film-forming foam;
2. No later than December 31, 2025, all aqueous film-forming foam or aqueous film-
forming foam concentrate not contained in a fire suppression system or other system that
is located on any property leased or owned by the authority is removed from that property;
3. No later than July 1, 2026, funding is acquired by the authority sufficient to cover
the anticipated costs of completely purging all fire suppression systems and any other
systems containing aqueous film-forming foam that are located on any property leased or
owned by the authority so that those systems no longer contain any aqueous film-forming
foam or any residue containing aqueous film-forming foam as provided in subsection 4;
and
4. No later than December 31, 2026, all fire suppression systems and any other systems
containing aqueous film-forming foam that are located on any property leased or owned by
the authority are completely purged so that those systems no longer contain any aqueous
film-forming foam or any residue containing aqueous film-forming foam.
As used in this resolve, "aqueous film-forming foam" means a fire suppressant foam
containing fluorinated surfactants intended for extinguishing flammable liquid fires.
APPROVED
MAY 23, 2025
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
33
RESOLVES