Bill Text: MI SB0014 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Water: drinking water standards; safe drinking water act; provide for maximum contaminant levels allowed. Amends sec. 6 of 1976 PA 399 (MCL 325.1006).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-15 - Referred To Committee On Environmental Quality [SB0014 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2019-SB0014-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 14

 

 

January 15, 2019, Introduced by Senator BRINKS and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 399, entitled

 

"Safe drinking water act,"

 

by amending section 6 (MCL 325.1006).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 6. (1) The Except as provided in subsection (2), the

 

maximum contaminant levels for inorganic and organic chemicals,

 

microbiological contaminants and turbidity, which are part of the

 

national interim primary drinking water regulations, and which have

 

been promulgated by the United States environmental protection

 

agency Environmental Protection Agency under authority of Public

 

Law 93-523 (1974), before this act taking effect, are hereby

 

incorporated by reference and shall have the same force and effect

 

as a rule promulgated pursuant to under this act. A standard which

 

that is incorporated by reference pursuant to under this subsection

 

shall remain remains effective until a rule is promulgated pursuant

 

to under this act which that covers the same or similar subject or

 

the standard is rescinded by rule promulgated pursuant to under

 

this act.

 

     (2) The maximum contaminant levels for certain inorganic

 

chemicals are as follows:

 

     (a) For perfluorooctanesulfonic acid - 5 parts per trillion.

 

     (b) For perfluorooctanoic acid – 5 parts per trillion.