No person shall import, distribute or offer for sale any
liquid fossil fuel with a sulfur content exceeding the limits in Subsection A
or any solid fossil fuel with a sulfur content to heat content ratio exceeding
the limits of Subsection B unless the fuel will be combusted in a source
subject to Subsections
5 or
9, or Sections
6 or
8 are applicable.
A.
Liquid Fossil Fuels
(1)
Residual Fuels
(a) No person shall distribute or offer for
sale any residual fuel containing over 2.0 percent sulfur by weight as fired,
except that in the Portland Peninsula Air Quality Control Region, no person
shall use any residual fuel with a sulfur content greater than 1.5% by
weight.
(b) Beginning July 1, 2018,
no person shall distribute or offer for sale any residual fuel with a sulfur
content greater than 0.5% by weight statewide.
(2)
Distillate Fuel
Beginning July 1, 2018, no person shall import, distribute or
offer for sale any distillate fuel with a sulfur content greater than 0.0015%
by weight statewide.
The sulfur content requirements in this subsection do not
apply to the use of distillate fuel for manufacturing purposes.
B.
Solid Fossil
Fuels
(1) After November 1, 1991, no
person shall use fuel containing over ninety-six hundredth (0.96) pounds sulfur
per million British Thermal Units, calculated as a calendar quarter average for
sources in the Central Maine, Downeast, Aroostook County, Northwest Maine Air
Quality Control Regions and that portion of the Metropolitan Portland Air
Quality Region outside the Portland Peninsula Air Quality Region. A calendar
quarter is composed of the months as follows: January, February, March (quarter
1); April, May, June (quarter 2); July, August, September (quarter 3); and
October, November, December (quarter 4).
(2) No person shall use fuel containing over
seventy-two hundredths (0.72) pounds sulfur per million British Thermal Units
calculated as a calendar quarter average for sources in the Portland Peninsula
Air Quality Region. A calendar quarter is composed of the months as follows:
January, February, March (quarter 1); April, May, June (quarter 2); July,
August, September (quarter 3); and October, November, December (quarter
4).
