SENATE BILL No. 348

 

 

May 21, 2015, Introduced by Senator ANANICH and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

 

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

 

by amending section 11518 (MCL 324.11518).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 11518. (1) At the time When a disposal area that is a

 

sanitary landfill is licensed, an instrument that imposes a

 

restrictive covenant upon the land involved shall be executed by

 

all of the owners of the tract of land upon which the landfill is

 

to be located and the department. If the land involved is state

 

owned, the state administrative board shall execute the covenant on

 

behalf of the state. The instrument imposing the restrictive

 

covenant shall be filed for record by the department or a health

 

officer in the office of the register of deeds of the county, or


counties, in which the facility is located. The covenant shall

 

state that all of the following:

 

     (a) That the land described in the covenant has been or will

 

be used as a landfill. and

 

     (b) Subject to subdivision (c) that neither the property

 

owners, their servants, agents, or employees, nor any of their

 

heirs, successors, lessees, or assigns shall engage in filling,

 

grading, excavating, or drilling , or mining on the property during

 

the first 50 years following completion of the landfill without

 

authorization of the department. In giving authorization, the

 

department shall consider the original design, type of operation,

 

material deposited, and the stage of decomposition of the fill.

 

Special exemption from this section subdivision may be granted by

 

the department if the lands involved are federal lands or if

 

contracts existing between the landowner and the licensee on

 

January 11, 1979 are not renegotiable.

 

     (c) That neither the property owners, their servants, agents,

 

or employees, nor any of their heirs, successors, lessees, or

 

assigns shall engage in any mining on the property, including, but

 

not limited to, mining of the landfill on the property for land

 

reclamation, the recovery of soil, recyclables, or other materials

 

from the landfill, for the increase in landfill capacity, or for

 

the extension of landfill life.

 

     (2) This part does not prohibit the department from conveying,

 

leasing, or permitting the use of state land for a solid waste

 

disposal area or a resource recovery facility as provided by

 

applicable state law.