Maine § 38 §584-F Air quality health warnings

Maine Statutes

§ 38 §584-F — Air quality health warnings

Maine § 38 §584-F

Title 38WATERS AND NAVIGATION

Ch. 4PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF AIR

This text of Maine § 38 §584-F (Air quality health warnings) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Maine primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 38, § 38 §584-F (2026).

Text

1.Dissemination of warnings to media and public. Whenever the department predicts that ambient air concentrations of a pollutant will reach the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index category of Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups or a higher category, the department shall disseminate a health warning to the mass media, including but not limited to television, radio and print media, and shall urge the media to issue the warning to the general public. The department shall use best efforts to educate the media as to the need to broadly disseminate health warnings to the public. In disseminating a warning under this subsection, the department shall also use the most appropriate technology available to disseminate health warnings directly to the public.

2.Daily ground-l

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

1.
Dissemination of warnings to media and public.
Whenever the department predicts that ambient air concentrations of a pollutant will reach the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index category of Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups or a higher category, the department shall disseminate a health warning to the mass media, including but not limited to television, radio and print media, and shall urge the media to issue the warning to the general public. The department shall use best efforts to educate the media as to the need to broadly disseminate health warnings to the public. In disseminating a warning under this subsection, the department shall also use the most appropriate technology available to disseminate health warnings directly to the public.
2.
Daily ground-level ozone concentration information.
The department shall provide information to the public on daily ground-level ozone concentrations by a toll-free ozone information telephone hotline or through other appropriate technology.