Bill Text: MI HB6067 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Environmental protection: air pollution; distribution of revenue for carbon credits; modify. Amends sec. 502 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.502).
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-04 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/03/2022 [HB6067 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB6067-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 6067
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled
"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"
by amending section 502 (MCL 324.502), as amended by 2004 PA 587.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 502. (1) The commission may promulgate rules, not inconsistent with law, governing its organization and procedure.
(2) The department may do 1 or more of the following:
(a) Promulgate and enforce reasonable rules concerning the use and occupancy of lands and other property under its control in accordance with section 504.
(b) Provide and develop facilities for outdoor recreation.
(c) Conduct investigations it considers necessary for the proper administration of this part.
(d) Remove and dispose of forest products as required for the protection, reforestation, and proper development and conservation of the lands and property under the control of the department.
(e) Require the payment of a fee as provided by law for a daily permit or other authorization that allows the person to hunt and take waterfowl on a public hunting area managed and developed for waterfowl.
(3) Except as provided in subsection (4), (5), the department may enter into contracts for the taking of coal, oil, gas, and other mineral products from state owned lands, upon a royalty basis or upon another basis, and upon the terms the department considers just and equitable subject to section 502a. This contract power includes authorization to enter into contracts for the storage of gas or other mineral products in or upon state owned lands, if the consent of the state agency having jurisdiction and control of the state owned land is first obtained. A contract permitted under this section for the taking of coal, oil, gas, or metallic mineral products, or for the storage of gas or other mineral products, subsection is not valid unless the contract is approved by the state administrative board.
(4) Money received from a contract for the storage of gas or other mineral products in or upon state lands shall be transmitted to the state treasurer for deposit in the general fund of the state to be used for the purpose of defraying the expenses incurred in the administration of this act and other purposes provided by law. Other money received from a contract permitted under this subsection, except money received from lands acquired with money from the former game and fish protection fund or from the game and fish protection account of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for in section 2010, shall be transmitted to the state treasurer for deposit in the Michigan natural resources trust fund created in section 35 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and provided for in part 19. However, the money received from the payment of service charges by a person using areas managed for waterfowl shall be credited to the game and fish protection account of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for in section 2010 and used only for the purposes provided by law. Money received from bonuses, rentals, delayed rentals, royalties, and the direct sale of resources, including forest resources, from lands acquired with money from the former game and fish protection fund or the game and fish protection account of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for in section 2010 shall be credited to the Michigan game and fish protection trust fund established in section 41 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and provided for in part 437, except as otherwise provided by law.
(5) (4) The department shall not enter into a contract that allows drilling operations beneath the lake bottomlands of the Great Lakes, the connected bays or harbors of the Great Lakes, or the connecting waterways as defined in section 32301, for the exploration or production of oil or gas.
(6) (5) This section does not permit a contract for the taking of gravel, sand, coal, oil, gas, or other metallic mineral products that does not comply with applicable local ordinances and state law.
(7) The department may sell carbon credits or ecological services from the state forest and other state-owned lands, or from lands controlled by the department, if all of the following criteria are met:
(a) The carbon credits or ecological services are verified by a third party.
(b) The sale does not prevent or restrict continued land management as outlined by the department's land management plans or strategies.
(c) Unless otherwise provided by law, the proceeds from the sale are deposited into the forest development fund established in section 50507.
