12 §407. Comprehensive river resource management plans - Maine Statutes

Title 12: CONSERVATION

Part 2: FORESTS, PARKS, LAKES AND RIVERS

Chapter 200: MAINE'S RIVERS

§407. Comprehensive river resource management plans

The State Planning Office, with assistance from the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, the Department of Marine Resources, the Department of Environmental Protection and other state agencies as needed, shall develop, subject to the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, Title 5, chapter 375, a comprehensive river resource management plan for each watershed with a hydropower project licensed under the Federal Power Act or to be licensed under the Federal Power Act. These plans shall provide a basis for state agency comments, recommendations and permitting decisions and shall at a minimum include, as applicable, minimum flows, impoundment level regimes, upstream and downstream fish passage, maintenance of aquatic habitat and habitat productivity, public access and recreational opportunities. These plans shall update, complement and, after public notice, comment, and hearings in the watershed, be adopted as components of the State's comprehensive rivers management plan. [1989, c. 453, §1 (NEW); 1989, c. 878, Pt. A, §29 (AMD).]

SECTION HISTORY

1989, c. 453, §1 (NEW). 1989, c. 878, §A29 (AMD).