06-096-854 Me. Code R. § 2
It is the purpose of the Department of Environmental Protection (Department), consistent with legislative policy, to provide necessary controls over hazardous waste facilities so as to ensure the protection of public health, safety, welfare and the environment.
The Board will administer this Chapter in a conservative fashion because it recognizes that many unknowns remain about the short-term and long-term impacts of hazardous waste to public health and natural ecosystems. The intent of this Chapter is to protect the public health, safety, and general welfare and the environment; the burden of proof rests with each applicant seeking a license for a waste facility for hazardous waste to affirmatively demonstrate that the intent of this Chapter will be met at all times.
06-096 C.M.R. ch. 854, § 2