Public Input for Proposed Rules
Notices are published each Wednesday to alert the public regarding state agency rulemaking. You may obtain a copy of any rule by notifying the agency contact person. You may also comment on the rule, and/or attend the public hearing. If no hearing is scheduled, you may request one - the agency may then schedule a hearing, and must do so if 5 or more persons request it. If you are disabled or need special services to attend a hearing, please notify the agency contact person at least 7 days prior to it. Petitions: you can petition an agency to adopt, amend, or repeal any rule; the agency must provide you with petition forms, and must respond to your petition within 60 days. The agency must enter rulemaking if the petition is signed by 150 or more registered voters, and may begin rulemaking if there are fewer (Title 5 §8055). You can also petition the Legislature to review a rule; the Executive Director of the Legislative Council (115 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333, phone (207) 287-1615) will provide you with the necessary petition forms. The appropriate legislative committee will review a rule upon receipt of a petition from 100 or more registered voters, or from "...any person who may be directly, substantially and adversely affected by the application of a rule..." (Title 5 §11112). WorldWide Web: Copies of the weekly notices and the full texts of adopted rule chapters may be found on the internet at: http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/rules. There is also a list of rulemaking liaisons (http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/rules/liaisons.html), who are single points of contact for each agency.
PROPOSALS
AGENCY: 03-201 - Department of Corrections (DOC)
CHAPTER NUMBER AND TITLE: Ch. 10, Policy and Procedure Manual - Adult: Subsection 27.2, Supervised Community Confinement
PROPOSED RULE NUMBER: 2017-P049
BRIEF SUMMARY: To adopt as a permanent rule the emergency rule allowing a prisoner on supervised community confinement to go out of state for medical treatment not available in Maine and to make other changes to better spell out the application and review process.
PUBLIC HEARING: June 1, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at the Tyson Building, 3rd Floor, 25 Tyson Drive, Augusta, ME at Maine Department of Corrections Central Office MDOC Board Room
COMMENT DEADLINE: June 11, 2017
CONTACT PERSON FOR THIS FILING / SMALL BUSINESS INFORMATION / DOC RULEMAKING LIAISON: Mary Lucia, Department of Corrections, 111 State House Station, Augusta ME 04333. Telephone: (207) 287-4681. Fax: (207) 287-4370. E-mail: Mary.A.Lucia@Maine.gov .
FINANCIAL IMPACT ON MUNICIPALITIES OR COUNTIES: None
AGENCY: 13-188 - Department of Marine Resources (DMR)
CHAPTER NUMBER AND TITLE: Ch. 26, Sea Urchin Regulations and 2017-2018 Harvesting Season
PROPOSED RULE NUMBER: 2017-P050
BRIEF SUMMARY: This regulation would establish open harvest days for the taking of sea urchins by divers, rakers, trappers, and draggers in Zones 1 and 2 for the 2017-2018 season. It also establishes the utilization of harvester swipe cards for picking days to fish. This is a pilot project which aims to evaluate the swipe card system which could potentially provide industry the flexibility to fish in a safer manner and to increase roe quality. For Zone 1, 20-day seasons are proposed for divers, trappers, rakers and draggers in 2017-2018, from which harvesters may only fish up to 15 days of their choosing, the same number of days allowed during the 2016-2017 season. For Zone 2, 45-day seasons are proposed for divers, trappers, rakers and draggers in 2017-2018, from which harvesters may only fish up to 38 days of their choosing, the same number of days allowed during the 2016-2017 season. For the Whiting & Dennys Bays Limited Access Area in Zone 2, a 15-day season is proposed for Zone 2 divers, trappers, rakers and draggers in 2017-2018, which is six additional days compared to the 2016-17 season. This regulation also establishes a limited access area in Blue Hill Bay for a Department-initiated, five year research project in collaboration with industry using Department issued spatial trackers.
PUBLIC HEARINGS:
Augusta: May 30, 2017 at 6:00 p.m., DMR Conference Room, Marquardt Building, 32 Blossom Lane
Ellsworth: May 31, 2017 at 6:00 p.m., Ellsworth City Hall (Council Chambers), One City Hall Plaza
Hearing facilities: If you require accommodations due to disability, please contact Amanda Beckwith, at (207) 287-7578.
COMMENT DEADLINE: June 12, 2017
CONTACT PERSON FOR THIS FILING / SMALL BUSINESS INFORMATION: Amanda Ellis (Telephone: (207) 624-6573). Mail written comments to: Department of Marine Resources, attn.: Rulemaking, 21 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0021. Rulemaking e-mail: dmr.rulemaking@maine.gov . Fax: (207) 624-6024. TTY: (207) 624-6500 (Deaf/Hard of Hearing)
DMR RULEMAKING WEBSITE: http://www.maine.gov/dmr/rulemaking/ .
FINANCIAL IMPACT ON MUNICIPALITIES OR COUNTIES: none
AGENCY: 10-144 - Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Office for Family Independence (OFI)
CHAPTER NUMBER AND TITLE: Ch. 331, Maine Public Assistance Manual, Rule #108P (Repeal of RCA). Table of Contents. Introduction. Ch. VI, Types and Methods of Payments; Overpayments; Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) System. Ch. VII, Refugee Cash Assistance Program (RCA).
PROPOSED RULE NUMBER: 2017-P051
BRIEF SUMMARY: This rule is promulgated to effectuate the termination of administration of the Refugee Cash Assistance program (RCA). The State of Maine, through the Department, will no longer administer the federally funded Refugee Resettlement Program, which includes RCA. Federal regulations allow a state to repeal the choice to administer the program, and notice of revocation was given to the Federal Government in November 2016.
See http://www.Maine.gov/dhhs/ofi/rules/index.shtml for rules and related rulemaking documents.
PUBLIC HEARING: None
COMMENT DEADLINE: June 9, 2017
CONTACT PERSON FOR THIS FILING: Marta Noriega, Senior Planner, Department of Health & Human Services, Office for Family Independence, 19 Union Street, Augusta, ME 04333-0011. Telephone: (207) 624-4135. Fax: (207) 287-3455. TT Users Call Maine Relay - 711. E-mail: Marta.Noriega@Maine.gov .
FINANCIAL IMPACT ON MUNICIPALITIES OR COUNTIES: None anticipated
ADOPTIONS
Pursuant to Ch. 380 of the Public Laws of 2011, notice of the adoption of rules will no longer be published in the newspaper rulemaking notices; our Wednesday web notices will continue to carry them, however. Information on rules adopted through the Maine Administrative Procedure Act as well as the full text of adopted rules is available on the internet at http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/rules .
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