Code of Maine Rules
06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL
Chapter 150 - CONTROL OF EMISSIONS FROM OUTDOOR WOOD BOILERS
Section 096-150-2 - Definitions

A. Clean wood. "Clean wood" means wood that has no paint, stain, or other types of coatings, and wood that has not been treated with, including but not limited to, copper chromium arsenate, creosote, or pentachlorophenol.

B. Commercial outdoor wood boiler. "Commercial outdoor wood boiler" means any outdoor wood boiler, except for those outdoor wood boilers used solely for space heating or domestic hot water, used to service a commercial establishment.

C. Distribute or sell. "Distribute or sell" means to distribute, sell, advertise for sale, offer for sale, lease, ship, deliver for shipment, release for shipment, or receive and (having so received) deliver or offer to deliver. This term does not include the distribution or sale by a manufacturer of an outdoor wood boiler that is installed outside the State of Maine.

D. Manufacturer. "Manufacturer" means any person who constructs or imports for the distribution or sale into the United States an outdoor wood boiler.

E. New outdoor wood boiler. "New outdoor wood boiler" means an outdoor wood boiler that is not installed and/or operational at the intended location of use as of the effective date of this Chapter.

F. Nuisance. "Nuisance" means emission of air contaminants to the outdoor atmosphere of such quantity, characteristic or duration that may be injurious to human, plant or animal life or to property, or that unreasonably interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property.

G. Opacity. "Opacity" means the degree to which emissions other than water reduce the transmission of light and obscure the view of an object in the background.

H. Outdoor wood boiler. "Outdoor wood boiler" (also known as outdoor wood-fired hydronic heater, water stove or outdoor wood furnace) means a fuel burning device that: (1) is designed to burn wood, biomass fuel products or other approved solid fuels; (2) the manufacturer specifies for outdoor installation or installation in structures not normally occupied by humans (e.g., sheds) or is an indoor-rated device housed in a modular or containerized structure; and (3) heats building space or water, or both, through the distribution, typically through pipes for a fluid or ducts for air, of a fluid or air heated in the device.

I. Outdoor pellet boiler. "Outdoor pellet boiler" means an outdoor wood boiler designed and warranted by the manufacturer specifically to burn pellet fuel with metered fuel and air feed and controlled combustion engineering, which is operated according to the manufacturer's specifications and burns only pellet fuel.

J. Particulate matter or PM. "Particulate matter or PM" means particulate matter PM10 and PM2.5 including the condensable fraction.

K. Sale. "Sale" means the transfer of ownership or control.