Bill Text: MI HB5082 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Water; quality; water quality goal; establish, and measure progress toward achieving the goal. Amends 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.101 - 324.90106) by adding sec. 3103b.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-10-12 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 10/11/2017 [HB5082 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB5082-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5082

 

 

October 11, 2017, Introduced by Rep. Kosowski and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

 

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

 

(MCL 324.101 to 324.90106) by adding section 3103b.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 3103b. (1) It is the goal of this state to accelerate the

 

pace of progress for improving water quality to reach a goal of 25%

 

improvement in water quality by December 31, 2025. For purposes of

 

measuring progress toward this goal, state departments and agencies

 

shall use a baseline of water quality indicators on January 1,

 

2020.

 

     (2) The department, the department of environmental quality,

 

the department of agriculture and rural development, the department

 

of health and human services, the state transportation department,

 

and the office of the Great Lakes shall jointly conduct a broad

 

public and stakeholder engagement process across this state seeking

 

input on how to achieve the goal established under subsection (1).

 

Before beginning the public and stakeholder engagement process, the

 

state agencies listed in this subsection shall consult with local

 

units of government. The initial public and stakeholder engagement

 

process must be completed within 180 days after the effective date

 

of the amendatory act that added this section.

 

     (3) With respect to the goal established in subsection (1),

 

the public and stakeholder engagement process must include, but is

 

not limited to, obtaining input on all of the following:

 

     (a) Whether additional data or analyses are needed and how the

 

data or analyses can be used to accelerate, sustain, or measure

 

progress toward the goal.

 

     (b) Mechanisms to provide accountability and cost-benefit

 

analyses to accelerate, sustain, or measure progress toward the

 

goal.

 

     (c) Whether changes to this part or other state law would be

 

helpful to accelerate, sustain, or measure progress toward the

 

goal.

 

     (d) Whether local government programs or authorities could be

 

added or modified in a manner that would accelerate, sustain, or

 

measure progress toward the goal.

 

     (e) Options to prioritize, sequence, and locate multiple-

 

benefit practices, projects, and infrastructure needed to

 

accelerate, sustain, or measure progress toward the goal.

 

     (f) Options to leverage nonstate funding for practices,

projects, and infrastructure needed to accelerate, sustain, or

 

measure progress toward the goal.

 

     (g) Whether technology and private sector roles or investments

 

could be used to accelerate, sustain, or measure progress toward

 

the goal.

 

     (h) How to accomplish personal, community, ecological, and

 

economic health objectives and goals as part of accelerating,

 

sustaining, or measuring progress toward the goal.

 

     (i) How water safety and quality parameters for substances

 

such as chloride, infectious agents, phosphorus, sediment,

 

nitrates, and lead can accelerate, sustain, or measure progress

 

toward the goal.

 

     (j) Information considered relevant and useful by the state

 

agencies listed in subsection (2) that would accelerate, sustain,

 

or measure progress toward the goal.

 

     (4) Within 1 year after the effective date of the amendatory

 

act that added this section, the state agencies listed in

 

subsection (2) shall jointly submit a report to the governor and

 

the standing committees of the legislature with primary

 

jurisdiction over issues pertaining to natural resources and the

 

environment on the results of the public and stakeholder engagement

 

process and the input received. The report must include any policy

 

and budget recommendations based on this input that will

 

accelerate, sustain, or measure progress toward the goal

 

established in subsection (1).