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“Brunswick Rep. Dan Ankeles submitted three bill titles to the Maine Legislature on Tuesday aimed at removing and better regulating forever chemical-laden firefighting foam following the accidental discharge of the toxic material in his district last month.
One bill will propose a foam take-back program, similar to the one New Hampshire launched this summer. Another calls for the immediate removal of the foam from the site of the spill, Brunswick Executive Airport. The last is a measure to provide legislative authority to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to conduct a statewide inventory of the foam, as the exact amounts and locations of the toxic material remain unclear.
‘Having the [bill] titles in is an important step so that our constituents in Brunswick know that when we say we’re going to move forward with a legislative response, we actually mean it,’ Ankeles said of the draft legislation, which he noted are still far from complete proposals.”