Code of Maine Rules
06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL
Chapter 403 - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT RULES: INCINERATION FACILITIES
Section 096-403-2 - Facilities Not Subject to the Requirements of this Chapter

Universal Citation: 06 ME Code Rules ยง 096-403-2

Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024

The following facilities are exempt from the licensing and operating requirements of this chapter:

A. An incinerator or boiler for an institutional, commercial or industrial establishment that services exclusively that establishment.

B. Any lime kiln, cement kiln, bark and hogged fuel boiler, biomass or conventional fuel boiler, Kraft recovery boiler and sulfite process recovery boiler which combusts solid waste generated exclusively at the facility and/or which combusts wood wastes from land clearing, wood from brush or demolition debris, or tire derived fuel.

C. A boiler which combusts solid waste other than municipal solid waste and has been licensed or received approval under the fuel substitution section of 06-096 CMR 418.

D. An industrial boiler that combusts mixed paper, corrugated cardboard or office paper to generate heat, steam or electricity if:

(1) The mixed paper, corrugated cardboard or office paper would otherwise be placed in a landfill;

(2) The market value of the mixed paper, corrugated cardboard or office paper as a raw material for the manufacture of a product with recycled content is less than its value to the facility owner as a fuel supplement;

(3) The mixed paper, corrugated cardboard or office paper is combusted as a substitute for, or supplement to, fossil or biomass fuels that constitute the primary fuels combusted in the industrial boiler; and

(4) The boiler combusts no other forms of solid waste except as provided in these exemptions.

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