Bill Text: MI HB4265 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Environmental protection; landfills; yard waste ban waiver; provide for facilities with methane capture. Amends sec. 11504 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.11504) & adds sec. 11512b. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4266'11

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-20 - Referred To Committee On Energy And Technology [HB4265 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4265-Engrossed.html

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HB-4265, As Passed House, March 15, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUBSTITUTE FOR

 

HOUSE BILL NO. 4265

 

 

(As amended March 14, 2012)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

 

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

 

(MCL 324.101 to 324.90106) by adding section 11512b.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 11512b. [Yard clippings maintained segregated from other solid

 waste at the source of generation] may be disposed

 

of in landfill cells served by a landfill gas collection system if

 

all of the following requirements are met:

 

     (a) Installation of the landfill gas collection system is

 

documented in the landfill's operating record.

 

     (b) The landfill recovers and utilizes gas produced from the

 

landfill cells served by the landfill gas collection system as a

 

source of energy for generating electricity, a direct fuel use, or

 

any other use as a substitute for conventional fuels. The landfill

 

may flare gas under any of the following circumstances:

 

     (i) For testing or maintenance.

 

     (ii) If necessary because of malfunction or planned or

 

unplanned interruption of the landfill gas collection system or of

 

an on-site or off-site energy use.

 

     (iii) For planning, construction, or proving capacity for an

 

intended on-site or off-site energy use.

 

     (iv) For other reasons of a limited, temporary, or intermittent

 

nature.

 

     (c) If the landfill is owned or operated by a municipality,

 

county, or governmental authority created pursuant to statute, the

 

governing body of the municipality, county, or governmental

 

authority has held a public hearing on the issue of disposing of

 

source separated yard clippings at the landfill.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless House Bill No. 4266 of the 96th Legislature is enacted into

 

law.