Bill Text: MI SB0881 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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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]

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SENATE BILL No. 881

 

 

February 28, 2018, Introduced by Senator CASPERSON 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 3116 (MCL 324.3116).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 3116. 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 copper or iron ferrous

 

and nonferrous mining operations , whereby such operations result

 

in subject to parts 631 and 632 with respect to mining areas, as

 

defined in sections 63101(f) and 63201(i), with regard to the

 

placement, removal, use, or processing of copper or iron mineral

 

tailings or copper or iron mineral deposits from such operations

 

being placed in inland waters on bottomlands owned by or under the

 

control of the mining company and only water which may contain a

 

minimal amount of residue as determined by the department resulting

 

from such placement, removal, use, or processing being allowed or

 

permitted to escape into public waters. ferrous or nonferrous

 

mineral operator except to the extent 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 iron or copper ferrous and nonferrous mining operations

 

subject to a determination by the department.except to the extent

 

there is to be a discharge of waste or waste effluent into the

 

waters of the state.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.