Bill Text: MI SB0507 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Natural resources; other; Michigan geological survey; transfer to western Michigan university. Amends secs. 60101, 60102, 60104, 60105, 60106, 60107 & 60108 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.60101 et seq.) & repeals sec. 50 of 1846 RS 60 (MCL 322.350) & sec. 60103 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.60103).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-10-12 - Assigned Pa 0167'11 With Immediate Effect [SB0507 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-SB0507-Engrossed.html
SB-0507, As Passed Senate, June 28, 2011
SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 507
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled
"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"
by amending sections 60101, 60102, 60104, 60105, 60106, 60107, and
60108 (MCL 324.60101, 324.60102, 324.60104, 324.60105, 324.60106,
324.60107, and 324.60108), as added by 1995 PA 57; and to repeal
acts and parts of acts.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
60101. As used in this part: , "state
(a) "Governing institution" means the state university within
which the Michigan geological survey is established or continued
under section 60102.
(b) "State geologist" means the chief of the geological
survey
division office of oil, gas, and minerals, or a successor office,
of the department of environmental quality.
(c) "State university" means a state university described in
section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of
1963.
Sec.
60102. (1) The department shall control and supervise the
continuance
and completion of the geological survey of the state
and
for that purpose may from time to time appoint or employ a
state
geologist and a person or persons to assist in making the
geological
survey as the department considers necessary. The
department
shall determine the length of time and the location
where
these persons shall be employed. Subject
to subsection (2),
the Michigan geological survey is established within western
Michigan university and shall continue as an entity within a
governing institution. The governing institution shall do both of
the following:
(a) Oversee the operations of the Michigan geological survey.
(b) Appoint a director to supervise and carry out the duties
of the Michigan geological survey.
(2) If western Michigan university, or a successor governing
institution under this subsection, ceases to have an academic
program that is primarily engaged in the study of geology or
geosciences or substantially fails to fulfill the duties of the
Michigan geological survey under this part in an adequate manner,
or if the governing institution notifies the state geologist that
it does not desire the Michigan geological survey to remain as an
entity within that governing institution, the director of the
department of environmental quality shall issue an order to
transfer the Michigan geological survey to and establish it within
Senate Bill No. 507 as amended June 28, 2011
another state university that has an academic program that is
primarily engaged in the study of geology or geosciences. Before
issuing an order under this subsection, the director of the
department of environmental quality shall do all of the following:
(a) Provide public notice, including notice to the
legislature, and an opportunity for public comment.
(b) Consider the recommendations of the state geologist.
(3) The Michigan geological survey may enter into an agreement
with any state university to perform <<designated>> duties described in
sections 60104 to 60106. Subject to the terms of the agreement, the
state university entering into the agreement with the Michigan
geological survey, or a department or office of that state
university, may directly receive money or other assets to implement
the agreement in the same manner as the Michigan geological survey
under section 60108.
Sec.
60104. The department shall make or cause to be made
Michigan geological survey shall continue to make a thorough
geological
and mineralogical survey of the this state, which shall
may include a determination of the succession and arrangement,
thickness, and position of all strata and rocks; their mineral
character and contents and their economical uses; an investigation
of soils and subsoils and the determination of their character and
agricultural adaptation; and the investigation of all deposits of
brines, coal, marl, clay, gypsum, lime, petroleum, <<NATURAL GAS,>>
metals and
metallic ores, building stone, marble, gritstone, materials for
mortar and cement, mineral paint, and all other geological
productions
of the geological world within the limits of or
features in this state capable of being converted to the uses of
humans.
Sec.
60105. The department shall cause ample materials to be
collected
Michigan geological survey
shall provide for the
collection and conservation of cores, samples, and specimens for
the illustration of every division of the geology and mineralogy of
the
this state, and shall label, arrange, and prepare the
materials
for
exhibition in suitable cases in the museums of the public
colleges
and universities of the state and in a room in connection
with
the state library. to the
extent that facilities and funds are
available to do so.
Sec.
60106. The department Michigan
geological survey shall
prepare and submit to the state geologist an annual report of
progress and other reports, documents, and maps as necessary to
fulfill
its responsibilities. the progress
of the geological survey
and,
as often as possible, a condensed statement of important and
interesting
facts for general circulation. Upon completion of the
geological
survey, the department shall prepare a complete memoir
of
the geology of the state, including an account of all its
mineral
and agricultural resources as is usual in works of that
character,
a delineation of its geology on the map of the state,
and
other diagrams and illustrations as necessary to set forth in a
creditable,
intelligible, and, as far as possible, popular manner
the
nature, location, and extent of the geological and agricultural
resources
of the state. However, this report shall not contain to
any
considerable extent compilations of and extracts from books
previously
published.
Sec. 60107. All notes, memoranda, compilations, collections,
specimens,
diagrams, and illustrations that may be are made in the
progress
of the operation of the
Michigan geological survey by the
person
or persons engaged in conducting the geological survey are
the
property of the this state and shall be under the control of
the
department governing
institution.
Sec.
60108. To implement this part, the sum of $8,000.00 for
each
year until the completion of the geological survey is hereby
appropriated
to be drawn from the state treasury as needed. All
expenses
of the department in implementing this part authorized by
law
shall first be certified to be correct by the department, and
shall
be paid out of the state treasury upon the warrant of the
state
treasurer from the fund appropriated for that purpose.
However,
this appropriation shall not be used for printing reports.
The Michigan geological survey may receive money or other assets to
implement this part from any of the following:
(a) Funds appropriated by the legislature.
(b) Federal, state, municipal, or private grants.
(c) Any other source approved by the governing institution.
Enacting section 1. All of the following are repealed:
(a) Section 50 of 1846 RS 60, MCL 322.350.
(b) Section 60103 of the natural resources and environmental
protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.60103.
