Scored Legislation

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Would have prohibited the use chemical insecticides in the state's spruce budworm spray program, requiring bilogical sprays.

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Provided for protection of freshwater wetlands by requiring permits

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Wanted to change the Legislative Commission on radioactive waste from dealing with low-level waste to both low and high levels. Would have probably made it easier for Maine to be a high level dump site

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Would allow people, state agencies, and municipalities to know specific information about chemicals in a location upon request.

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Would have given the Great Northern Paper Co. a permit, retroactively, to build the Big "A" Dam.

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Would have established new fees on recepients of certain hazardous wastes and removed the annual ceiling of fees paid by generators of haz waste.

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Would have required a substantial reduction, over time, of acid rain causing sulfur dioxide emissions in the state

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Would have changed voluntary energy-efficiency building standards and made them mandatory minimums for most new constructions. Also would've established new voluntary standards

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Mandated that existing lobster research be continued. Also increased the minimum legal lize for lobsters provided the fed government adopt the same limit in other states

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Puts into statute the long standing right of the public to use the intertidal area for recreation

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Would authorize a bond of $5,000,000 for the State to acquire wildlife habitats for the public to access.

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Authroized a bond issue for various coastal purposes. The most controversial part was $3,250,000 for acquiring public access to the coast.

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Changed the definition of "subdivision: under State Law so that fewer subdivisions would require permits under environmental laws. Bill Sponsor: