Local Government Official Information

General

• DEP staff contacts by program
• Regional Offices
• Permits, fees and timelines

Assistance - financial and training

• Grants and Loans
• Training

Managing solid waste, recycling

• Program contacts
• Help ME Recycle
• Recycling
• Solid waste
  • Landfill closure
  • Reporting
• Sludge and residuals

Fire fighter's guidance

• Demolition debris burning
• Live fire instruction and training

Spills and site cleanup

• Program contacts
• Brownfields
• Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) Plan
• Uncontrolled sites
• Petroleum clean-up
• Voluntary Response Action Program
• Site and Spill Clean-up Monitoring and Reporting
• Hazardous and Oil Spill On-line Report Service

Air quality

• Program contacts
• Air quality forecast
• Permits, licenses, certifications

Newsletter

Introducing: The Municipal Environment, a monthly bulletin for town officials.

Wastewater, stormwater, drinking water supply, beaches

• Program contacts
• Wastewater Discharge Includes Municipal and Industrial Waste Discharge permits, Overboard Discharge, Underground Injection, Sand/salt
• Wastewater treatment, engineering, technical assistance
• Combined Sewer Overflow
• Multi-sector program for industrial activities
• Municipal Separate Stormwater Sewer System (MS4)
• Drinking water supply protection
• Beaches

Land resources

• Program contacts
• Land Permits and Standards: includes
  • Natural Resources Protection Act
    • Permit by rule information
    • PBR form (DEP rule Chapter 305)
  • Site Location of Development
  • Sand and Salt
• Shoreland Zoning
• Erosion and Sediment Control
• Stormwater Best Management Practices Manual
• Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO) Off-site