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Portland Maine Oil Tank Removal
Portland, ME

Maine Oil Tank Sources and Citations

Every regulatory, cost and statistical claim on this site traces to a document below. Where we could not verify something, it is listed as unverified rather than softened.

Sources last read in August 2026.

Documents Behind the Rules on This Site

The Chapter 691 rule was read from the Department’s own published rule text rather than from a legal mirror, and doing so corrected two things a mirror had left ambiguous.

Numbers This Site Deliberately Leaves Out

A figure we cannot source is a figure we do not print. Softening it or hedging it would be worse, because a precise-sounding number is exactly what makes a claim get repeated.

  • The City of Portland ME permit fee for removing a fuel oil tank. The figures in circulation trace back to a fee schedule we could not open, and the same search results returned the City of Portland, Oregon's code and permit forms alongside them. With two cities of that name, a source nobody has read is not a source. We will print the fee when we have read the schedule.
  • A price for the work. We do not publish a price we cannot stand behind. The figures on this site are other people's, and every one of them is attributed to whoever said it.

Maine Oil Tank Questions We Have Not Closed

Four questions we have not closed. None of them is load bearing on any claim made elsewhere on this site.

  • The City of Portland ME Permit Fee

    Figures circulate for a fuel oil tank permit here, but they trace back to a fee schedule we have not been able to open, and the same searches return the City of Portland, Oregon's code and permit forms alongside them. Two cities share the name and only one of them is in Maine. We will publish the fee when we have read the schedule ourselves.

  • Which Portland ME Department Issues the Permit

    The city has both a Permitting and Inspections department and a Fire Prevention division, and we have not confirmed which one takes a residential fuel oil tank removal or whether removal and installation are separate line items.

  • The Number of Community Action Agencies

    Maine DEP's program page says eleven. The Maine Monitor says nine. We describe the network rather than counting it until one of them is confirmed.

  • Any Per-Household Cap on the Replacement Grant

    The statute sets annual statewide ceilings. Neither the statute nor the program page states a maximum for an individual household, so we do not imply one.