Section 096-106-3 - ProhibitionsNo person shall import, distribute or offer for sale any liquid fossil fuel with a sulfur content exceeding the limits in Subsection A or any solid fossil fuel with a sulfur content to heat content ratio exceeding the limits of Subsection B unless the fuel will be combusted in a source subject to Subsections 5 or 9, or Sections 6 or 8 are applicable.
A.Liquid Fossil Fuels(1)Residual Fuels(a) No person shall distribute or offer for sale any residual fuel containing over 2.0 percent sulfur by weight as fired, except that in the Portland Peninsula Air Quality Control Region, no person shall use any residual fuel with a sulfur content greater than 1.5% by weight.(b) Beginning July 1, 2018, no person shall distribute or offer for sale any residual fuel with a sulfur content greater than 0.5% by weight statewide.(2)Distillate FuelBeginning July 1, 2018, no person shall import, distribute or offer for sale any distillate fuel with a sulfur content greater than 0.0015% by weight statewide.
The sulfur content requirements in this subsection do not apply to the use of distillate fuel for manufacturing purposes.
B.Solid Fossil Fuels(1) After November 1, 1991, no person shall use fuel containing over ninety-six hundredth (0.96) pounds sulfur per million British Thermal Units, calculated as a calendar quarter average for sources in the Central Maine, Downeast, Aroostook County, Northwest Maine Air Quality Control Regions and that portion of the Metropolitan Portland Air Quality Region outside the Portland Peninsula Air Quality Region. A calendar quarter is composed of the months as follows: January, February, March (quarter 1); April, May, June (quarter 2); July, August, September (quarter 3); and October, November, December (quarter 4).(2) No person shall use fuel containing over seventy-two hundredths (0.72) pounds sulfur per million British Thermal Units calculated as a calendar quarter average for sources in the Portland Peninsula Air Quality Region. A calendar quarter is composed of the months as follows: January, February, March (quarter 1); April, May, June (quarter 2); July, August, September (quarter 3); and October, November, December (quarter 4).06- 096 C.M.R. ch. 106, § 3