The Department of Environmental Protection proposed to amend 06-096 Code Me. Regs. Ch. 378, Variance Criteria for the Excavation of Rock, Borrow, Topsoil, Clay or Silt and the Performance Standards for the Storage of Petroleum Products. Changes would allow licensed mining operation to store a small amount of diesel fuel on significant sand and gravel aquifers mapped by the Maine Geological Survey. There will be a public hearing November 3, 2011, and the deadline for comment is November 14. See http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/rules/notices/2011/101211.html.