HB 5942 Michigan House · 2023-2024 Regular Session

Environmental protection: sewage; violations for sewer overflows; modify. Amends 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.101 - 324.90106) by adding sec. 3115b.

This bill requires counties in Michigan with more than one million residents to create and submit a plan to the state department to cut sewage discharge volumes by 50% within five years if they violate their environmental permits. The state department will review these plans within 180 days, and if approved, the counties must finish implementing the reduction measures within two years or risk having their permits denied. Counties that fail to submit a plan or complete the required reductions could face administrative fines of up to $1 million per month, which would be collected by the state attorney general and added to the state's clean water funding.
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Sep 2024
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Introduced Sep 17, 2024 Last action Sep 18, 2024
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Sep 17, 2024
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referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Environment, Tourism and Outdoor Recreation
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Sep 17, 2024
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introduced by Representative Douglas Wozniak
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