Bill Text: MI SB0881 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Environmental protection; water pollution; exemptions for tailings disposal facilities; modify. Amends sec. 3116 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.3116).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-05-29 - Assigned Pa 164'18 With Immediate Effect [SB0881 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB0881-Chaptered.html
Act No. 164
Public Acts of 2018
Approved by the Governor
May 23, 2018
Filed with the Secretary of State
May 23, 2018
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 21, 2018
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2018
Introduced by Senator Casperson
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 881
AN ACT to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “An act to protect the environment and natural resources of the state; to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify laws relating to the environment and natural resources of the state; to regulate the discharge of certain substances into the environment; to regulate the use of certain lands, waters, and other natural resources of the state; to protect the people’s right to hunt and fish; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials; to provide for certain charges, fees, assessments, and donations; to provide certain appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 3116 (MCL 324.3116).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 3116. (1) This part does not repeal any law governing the pollution of lakes and streams, but shall be held and construed as ancillary to and supplementing the other laws and in addition to the laws now in force, except as a law may be in direct conflict with this part. This part does not apply to ferrous and nonferrous mining operations subject to parts 631 and 632 with respect to mining areas, as defined in sections 63101 and 63201, with regard to the placement, removal, use, or processing of mineral tailings or mineral deposits being placed in inland waters on bottomlands owned by or under the control of the ferrous or nonferrous mineral operator unless there is to be a discharge of waste or waste effluent from the inland waters into waters of the state. This part does not apply to the discharge of water from underground ferrous and nonferrous mining operations unless there is to be a discharge of waste or waste effluent into the waters of the state.
(2) The exemption provided in subsection (1) does not apply to inland waters owned by or under control of a ferrous or nonferrous mineral operator if there is an inland lake or stream as defined in section 30101 that flows both into those inland waters and out from those inland waters directly into the waters of the state.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
