Bill Text: MI SB1118 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Water; quality; drinking water; reduce lead action level. Amends sec. 5 of 1976 PA 399 (MCL 325.1005).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-10-18 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [SB1118 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB1118-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 1118

 

 

October 18, 2016, Introduced by Senator ANANICH and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 399, entitled

 

"Safe drinking water act,"

 

by amending section 5 (MCL 325.1005), as amended by 1998 PA 56.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 5. (1) The department shall promulgate and enforce rules

 

to carry out this act pursuant to the administrative procedures act

 

of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328. The rules, at a

 

minimum, shall include the following:

 

     (a) Requirements for the submission of reports, plans, and

 

specifications for the design and construction of all or part of a

 

waterworks system or a part thereof, and a plan for operating and

 

maintaining all or a part of the waterworks system, including the

 

protection of water quality within the distribution system as

 

necessary to protect the public health.

 

     (b) State drinking water standards and associated monitoring

requirements, the attainment and maintenance of which are necessary

 

to protect the public health.

 

     (c) The classification of waterworks systems or portions

 

thereof, the examination for certification of the operators of

 

those systems including shift operators of water treatment systems,

 

and for the issuance, suspension, and revocation of certificates.

 

     (d) Criteria for capacity assessments performed by the

 

department at community supplies, nontransient noncommunity water

 

supplies, or a public water supply applying to the department for

 

assistance under part 54 of the natural resources and environmental

 

protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.5401 to 324.5418.

 

     (e) Requirements for provision of facilities by public water

 

supplies that will assure ensure an adequate and reliable supply of

 

drinking water on a continuous basis.

 

     (2) Rules governing public water supplies promulgated under

 

former 1913 PA 98, and which were in effect on January 4, 1977 are

 

continued in accordance with section 31 of the administrative

 

procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.231, and may be amended

 

or rescinded by the director under this act.

 

     (3) No rule promulgated may require the addition of any

 

substance for preventive health care purposes unrelated to

 

contamination of drinking water.

 

     (4) Notwithstanding any rule to the contrary, but subject to

 

subsection (5), the action level for lead in drinking water is as

 

follows:

 

     (a) Beginning December 31, 2017, 10 parts per billion.

 

     (b) Beginning January 1, 2021, 5 parts per billion.

     (5) The department may establish, by rule, a lower action

 

level than is provided in subsection (4). The department shall make

 

every effort to achieve an action level goal for lead in drinking

 

water of zero parts per billion.

 

     (6) It is the intent of the legislature to make appropriations

 

to pay units of local government that own community supplies or

 

nontransient noncommunity water supplies for any necessary

 

increased costs of complying with a lead action level under

 

subsection (4) or under a rule promulgated under subsection (5).

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.