Maine BEP approves tighter biomass controls.The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP BEP Black Eyed Peas (band) BEP Brevet d’Études Professionnelles (French: vocational qualification) BEP Business Entry Point BEP Break-Even Point BEP Bit Error Probability BEP Bureau of Engraving & Printing ) has approved tighter restrictions on the use of wood construction and demolition debris in biomass energy plants, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Bangor Daily News The Bangor Daily News is an American newspaper that was founded on June 18, 1889; in 1900 the paper merged with the Bangor Whig and Courier. The Bangor Publishing Company publishes the paper in Bangor, Maine, in addition to several weekly papers that they (Bangor, Maine For other places with the same name, see Bangor. Bangor is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, MaineGR6, United States. It is the major commercial center for eastern and northern Maine. For U.S. ). The board has enacted stricter monitoring, reporting and quality control standards for biomass boilers that burn C&D debris. The new regulations, which were also approved by the state legislature and Gov. John Baldacci, also limit a facility's use of wood debris to 50 percent of its annual fuel consumption, according to the report. Maine's biomass facilities burned nearly 600 million pounds of C&D debris in 2004. About 80 percent of the material came from outside the state. |
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