The purposes of these Rules are to ensure a consistent and standard approach to the management of the Submerged Lands of Maine; to protect customary and traditional public access ways to, and public trust rights in, on or over the Submerged Lands and the waters above those lands; to protect fishing and other existing marine uses of the Submerged Lands; to protect ingress and egress of riparian owners; to balance competing uses in, on or over Submerged Lands; and to provide procedures for the issuance of conveyances for use of Submerged Lands.
01- 670 C.M.R. ch. 53, § 1.2