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15 - Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management
2001-2002 Regulatory Agenda
UMBRELLA-UNIT
NUMBER: 15-214
AGENCY NAME: Department
of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, Maine Emergency Management
Agency
CONTACT PERSON:
Arthur W. Cleaves, Director, Maine Emergency Management Agency, 72 State
House Station, Augusta, ME 04333
EMERGENCY RULES
ADOPTED SINCE THE LAST REGULATORY AGENDA: None
EXPECTED 2001-2002
RULEMAKING ACTIVITY:
CHAPTER 460
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: 37-B MRSA §1059-A
PURPOSE: These rules will regulate the administration of the dam repair
and reconstruction fund, to include including criteria and procedures
for the application for and award of low-interest loans from the fund
and for repayment of loans to the fund.. They will be amended to reflect
policy and law changes.
ANTICIPATED SCHEDULE: June 2002
AFFECTED PARTIES: Owners of non-FERC regulated high and significant
hazard dams in Maine
CONSENSUS-BASED RULE DEVELOPMENT: None contemplated.
AGENCY UMBRELLA-UNIT
NUMBER: 15-215
AGENCY NAME: Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management,
Bureau of Maine Veterans' Services
CONTACT PERSON:
Frank Soares, Director, 117 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-117.
Tel.: (207)626-4464.
EMERGENCY RULES
ADOPTED SINCE THE LAST REGULATORY AGENDA: None
EXPECTED 2001-2002
RULE-MAKING ACTIVITY:
CHAPTER 439
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: 37-B M.R.S.A. §505, SUB-§1-A
PURPOSE: These rules establish criteria for administering a financial
assistance program for veterans in the State of Maine. The program consists
of two types of assistance. The first provides a grant of temporary
assistance not to exceed $200 per month and not to exceed $600 in any
12-month period to a veteran in this State who has filed a valid claim
for a veteran's pension under U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs regulations,
pending notification of the award of such pension, if that veteran is
not incarcerated and requests such assistance. The second provides a
grant of emergency assistance not to exceed $500 to a veteran who suffers
an emergency, such as the loss of that veteran's home to fire, flood
or hurricane, that is not fully compensable by insurance; illness or
the illness of an immediate family member; or a similar emergency. No
more than $1,000 in emergency assistance may be provided to a veteran
in any 12-month period.
ANTICIPATED SCHEDULE: November, 2001
AFFECTED PARTIES: All veterans of the State of Maine as defined by 37-B
M.R.S.A. §504, sub-4, paragraph A-1.
CONSENSUS-BASED RULE DEVELOPMENT: not contemplated.
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