Bill Text: MI HB5112 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Water; quality; testing lawn sprinkler backflow preventers; reduce frequency. Amends sec. 5 of 1976 PA 399 (MCL 325.1005).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-12-08 - Printed Bill Filed 12/04/2015 [HB5112 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB5112-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5112
December 3, 2015, Introduced by Reps. Yonker, Pscholka, Franz and McCready.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 399, entitled
"Safe drinking water act,"
by amending section 5 (MCL 325.1005), as amended by 1998 PA 56.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 5. (1) The department shall promulgate and enforce rules
to carry out this act pursuant to the administrative procedures act
of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328. The rules, at a
minimum, shall include the following:
(a) Requirements for the submission of reports, plans, and
specifications for the design and construction of a waterworks
system or a part thereof, and a plan for operating and maintaining
all or a part of the waterworks system, including the protection of
water quality within the distribution system as necessary to
protect the public health.
(b) State drinking water standards and associated monitoring
requirements, the attainment and maintenance of which are necessary
to protect the public health.
(c) The classification of waterworks systems or portions
thereof, the examination for certification of the operators of
those systems including shift operators of water treatment systems,
and
for the issuance, suspension, and revocation of certificates.
(d) Criteria for capacity assessments performed by the
department at community supplies, nontransient noncommunity water
supplies, or a public water supply applying to the department for
assistance under part 54 of the natural resources and environmental
protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.5401 to 324.5418.
(e) Requirements for provision of facilities by public water
supplies
that will assure ensure an adequate and reliable supply of
drinking water on a continuous basis.
(2) Rules governing public water supplies promulgated under
former
1913 PA 98 , and which that were in effect on
January 4,
1977
are continued in accordance with as provided in section 31 of
the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.231,
and may be amended or rescinded by the director under this act.
(3)
No rule promulgated may A
rule shall not require the
addition of any substance for preventive health care purposes
unrelated to contamination of drinking water.
(4) A testable backflow preventer on a residential lawn
sprinkler system shall be tested immediately after the residential
lawn sprinkler system is installed or the backflow preventer is
repaired. An approved comprehensive control program for the
elimination and prevention of all cross-connections under R
325.11404 of the Michigan administrative code or a rule promulgated
under this act shall not require additional testing.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
