Bill Text: MI SB0911 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: State agencies (existing); natural resources; powers and duties of the department of environmental quality under beverage container law; transfer to the department of natural resources. Amends sec. 3f of 1976 IL 1 (MCL 445.573f). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0807'09

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-12-02 - Reconsider Vote Postponed [SB0911 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-SB0911-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 911

 

 

October 20, 2009, Introduced by Senator McMANUS and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1976 IL 1, entitled

 

"A petition to initiate legislation to provide for the use of

returnable containers for soft drinks, soda water, carbonated

natural or mineral water, other nonalcoholic carbonated drink, and

for beer, ale, or other malt drink of whatever alcoholic content,

and for certain other beverage containers; to provide for the use

of unredeemed bottle deposits; to prescribe the powers and duties

of certain state agencies and officials; and to prescribe penalties

and provide remedies,"

 

by amending section 3f (MCL 445.573f), as added by 1996 PA 384.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 3f. (1) The community pollution prevention fund is

 

created within the state treasury.

 

     (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from

 

any source for deposit into the community pollution prevention

 

fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the

 

community pollution prevention fund. The state treasurer shall

 

credit to the community pollution prevention fund interest and

 

earnings from fund investments.

 

     (3) Money in the community pollution prevention fund at the

 

close of the fiscal year shall remain in the community pollution

 

prevention fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.

 

     (4) The department of environmental quality natural resources

 

shall expend interest and earnings of the community pollution

 

prevention fund only, upon appropriation, for grants for the

 

purpose of preventing pollution, with an emphasis on the prevention

 

of groundwater contamination and resulting risks to the public

 

health, ecological risks, and public and private cleanup costs. The

 

department of environmental quality natural resources shall enter

 

into contractual agreements with grant recipients, who shall

 

include county governments, local health departments,

 

municipalities, and regional planning agencies. Activities to be

 

performed by grant recipients and program objectives and

 

deliverables shall be specified in the contractual agreements.

 

Grant recipients shall provide a financial match of not less than

 

25% nor more than 50%. Not more than $100,000.00 may be granted in

 

any fiscal year to a single recipient. Eligible pollution

 

prevention activities include all of the following:

 

     (a) Drinking water wellhead protection, including the

 

delineation of wellhead protection areas and implementation of

 

wellhead protection plans pursuant to the safe drinking water act,

 

Act No. 399 of the Public Acts of 1976, being sections 325.1001 to

 

325.1023 of the Michigan Compiled Laws 1976 PA 399, MCL 325.1001 to

 

325.1023.

 

     (b) The review of pollution incident prevention plans prepared

 

by, and the inspection of, facilities whose storage or handling of

 

hazardous materials may pose a risk to the groundwater.

 

     (c) The identification and plugging of abandoned wells other

 

than oil and gas wells.

 

     (d) Programs to educate the general public and businesses that

 

use or handle hazardous materials on pollution prevention methods,

 

technologies, and processes, with an emphasis on the direct

 

reduction of toxic material releases or disposal at the source.

 

     (5) The department of environmental quality natural resources

 

shall annually prepare a report summarizing the grants made under

 

this section, contractual commitments made and achieved, and a

 

preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of this section not

 

later than September 30, 1997, and September 30 of each year

 

thereafter, and shall provide a copy of this report to the chairs

 

of the house and senate appropriations subcommittees for the

 

department of environmental quality natural resources.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No. 807                                    

 

          of the 95th Legislature is enacted into law.