LINCOLN – Wanted: A handful of people who like junk and trash.

The town is forming a committee to study its junkyard regulations and another board, the solid waste committee, to help oversee the transfer station, Lincoln officials said Tuesday.

Town Administrative Assistant Gilberte Mayo has been overseeing the transfer station since George McLain resigned several months ago. She wants a committee of four or five people to help manage the station.

“I thought it would be best if we could get people who are in the hauling business or who use the station a lot, like contractors, but residents use it a lot, too,” Mayo said Tuesday.

The station brings with it many issues, Mayo said, among them: How should the town stop nonresidents from dumping trash there?

Contractors who work in other towns but live in Lincoln often dump trash there, and shouldn’t, Mayo said.

Residential illegal dumping also may be a problem, she said. Town regulations permit only Lincoln residents to leave trash at the transfer station, which is off West Broadway.

The town can fine people who dump illegally as much as $500, Mayo said.

The committee also can help run the transfer station and permitting process more efficiently.

The Town Council also voted 6-1 Monday night to form a committee to oversee improving, and possibly enforcing, town junkyard regulations.

“We have been the junkyard police for years,” Town Manager Glenn Aho told the council, explaining that town regulations leave too vague the definition of junkyard.

A definition that better separates a junkyard from a properly maintained residential or commercial property would help, he said.

“It’s a slippery fish,” Aho said.