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LD704 • 2025

An Act to Clarify Performance Standards for Quarries

An Act to Clarify Performance Standards for Quarries

Enacted

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Clarify Performance Standards for Quarries

An Act to Clarify Performance Standards for Quarries Sponsor: Representative William Pluecker Reference committee: Environment and Natural Resources Governor action: Signed by the Governor

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Clarify Performance Standards for Quarries Sponsor: Representative William Pluecker 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 - 132LR2248(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR2248(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 704 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

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED , in concurrence.

  3. 2025-05-20 House

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED . 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. 2025-02-20 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Clarify Performance Standards for Quarries
Sponsor:
Representative William Pluecker
Reference committee:
Environment and Natural Resources
Governor action:
Signed by the Governor

Current Bill Text

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Page 1 - 132LR2248(03)
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
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H.P. 443 - L.D. 704
An Act to Clarify Performance Standards for Quarries
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §490-X, as amended by PL 2007, c. 297, §8 and PL 2011, c. 682,
§38, is further amended by enacting at the end a new paragraph to read:
Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary, a person exempt from the
requirements of this article that is operating a quarry one acre in size or less; that is
operating a quarry that has a total excavated area, including adjacent parcels under a
common owner or operator, that is one acre in size or less; or that is operating a quarry and
conducting an excavation or grading preliminary to a construction project shall comply
with the blasting notification requirements under section 490-Z, subsection 14, paragraph
O if the person intends to conduct blasting at that quarry or as part of that excavation or
grading.
APPROVED
MAY 23, 2025
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
91
PUBLIC LAW