An incineration facility shall submit an annual report to the department no later than 90 days after the end of the incineration facility’s fiscal year. For reasonable cause shown and upon written application by an incineration facility, the department may grant an extension of the 90-day period. The report must be certified by an appropriate executive officer of the incineration facility as being complete and accurate. The department may prescribe the form of the annual report and the number of copies that must be submitted. The report must include the following information: [PL 2011, c. 655, Pt. GG, §65 (AMD); PL 2011, c. 655, Pt. GG, §70 (AFF).]
1. Waste. The total weight in tons of all solid waste received by the incineration facility in the last completed fiscal year and each month of that year and a breakdown of these totals according to the waste sources;

[PL 1991, c. 676, §1 (NEW).]

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 2232

  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Incineration facility: means a facility that accepts municipal solid waste for consideration and disposes of the waste through combustion, including combustion for the generation of heat, steam or electricity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 2231
  • Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Solid waste: includes fuel, whether solid, liquid or gas, derived from materials such as those listed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 2231
  • Tipping fee: means any fee, rate, toll or other charge that an incineration facility charges for disposal of solid waste from the facility's customers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 2231
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
2. Tipping fee. A schedule of various tipping fees imposed by the incineration facility on the incineration facility’s municipal and commercial customers over the last completed fiscal year including an identification of all changes in those fees and a similar schedule of fees to be imposed on municipal and commercial customers for the next fiscal year. The tipping fees for commercial customers must be set out separately by each rate charged to each category of commercial customer;

[PL 1991, c. 676, §1 (NEW).]

3. Revenue. The total revenue of the incineration facility from all sources for the last completed fiscal year and each month of that year. Revenue figures must identify revenues from each revenue source, including, but not limited to, tipping fees and any revenue from sales of electricity to transmission and distribution utilities;

[PL 1999, c. 657, §27 (AMD).]

4. Expenditures. The total expenditures of the incineration facility during the last completed fiscal year including details of those expenditures as required by the department; and

[PL 2011, c. 655, Pt. GG, §66 (AMD); PL 2011, c. 655, Pt. GG, §70 (AFF).]

5. Other information. Any other information required by the department.

[PL 2011, c. 655, Pt. GG, §66 (AMD); PL 2011, c. 655, Pt. GG, §70 (AFF).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 1991, c. 676, §1 (NEW). PL 1995, c. 656, §§A65,66 (AMD). PL 1999, c. 657, §27 (AMD). PL 2011, c. 655, Pt. GG, §§65, 66 (AMD). PL 2011, c. 655, Pt. GG, §70 (AFF).