HB-4099, As Passed House, February 5, 2004

SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 4099

                                                                             A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled                                             

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"                       

by amending sections 11505 and 11514 (MCL 324.11505 and                     

324.11514) and by adding sections 11507b and 11507c.                        

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

1       Sec. 11505.  (1) "Recyclable materials" means source                        

2   separated materials, site separated materials, high grade paper,            

3   glass, metal, plastic, aluminum, newspaper, corrugated paper,               

4   yard clippings, and other materials that may be recycled or                 

5   composted.                                                                  

6       (2) "Regional solid waste management planning agency" means                 

7   the regional solid waste planning agency designated by the                  

8   governor pursuant to section 4006 of subtitle D of the solid                

9   waste disposal act, title II of Public Law 89-272, 42                       

10  U.S.C. 6946.                                                                

1       (3) "Resource recovery facility" means machinery, equipment,                

2   structures, or any parts or accessories of machinery, equipment,            

3   or structures, installed or acquired for the primary purpose of             

4   recovering materials or energy from the waste stream.                       

5       (4) "Response activity" means an activity that is necessary                 

6   to protect the public health, safety, welfare, or the                       

7   environment, and includes, but is not limited to, evaluation,               

8   cleanup, removal, containment, isolation, treatment, monitoring,            

9   maintenance, replacement of water supplies, and temporary                   

10  relocation of people.                                                       

11  (5) "Returnable container" means that term as defined in                    

12  section 1 of the Initiated Law of 1976, MCL 445.571.

13  (6)  (5)  "Rubbish" means nonputrescible solid waste,                       

14  excluding ashes, consisting of both combustible and                         

15  noncombustible waste, including paper, cardboard, metal                     

16  containers, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery,                 

17  demolished building materials, or litter of any kind that may be            

18  a detriment to the public health and safety.                                

19  (7)  (6)  "Salvaging" means the lawful and controlled removal               

20  of reusable materials from solid waste.                                     

21  (8)  (7)  "Site separated material" means glass, metal, wood,               

22  paper products, plastics, rubber, textiles, garbage, yard                   

23  clippings, or any other material approved by the department that            

24  is separated from solid waste for the purpose of conversion into            

25  raw materials or new products.  Site separated material does not            

26  include the residue remaining after glass, metal, wood, paper               

27  products, plastics, rubber, textiles, or any other material                 

1   approved by the department is separated from solid waste.                   

2   (9)  (8)  "Slag" means the nonmetallic product resulting from               

3   melting or smelting operations for iron or steel.                           

4   Sec. 11507b.  (1) By the tenth day of each month, the                       

5   director shall submit to the standing committees of the senate              

6   and house of representatives with primary responsibility for                

7   solid waste issues a report that sets forth all of the                      

8   following:                                                                  

9       (a) The amount of solid waste generated outside of this state               

10  and accepted for disposal in this state during the preceding                

11  calendar month.                                                             

12      (b) The origins of the waste described in subdivision (a).                  

13      (c) The locations where the waste described in subdivision                  

14  (a) was disposed of.                                                        

15      (d) The types of solid waste described in subdivision (a).                  

16      (2) Subsection (1) applies beginning the tenth day of the                   

17  month after the first full calendar month following the effective           

18  date of the amendatory act that added this section.

19  Sec. 11507c.  By July 1 of each year, the director shall                    

20  submit to the standing committees of the senate and house of                

21  representatives with primary responsibility for solid waste                 

22  issues a report containing proposals for reducing the amount of             

23  solid waste generated outside of this state that is accepted for            

24  disposal in this state.

25      Sec. 11514.  (1) A person shall not knowingly dispose of,                   

26  and an owner or operator of a landfill shall not knowingly permit           

27  the disposal of  , medical waste in a landfill either of the               

1   following in a landfill:                                                    

2       (a) Medical waste, unless that medical waste has been                       

3   decontaminated or is not required to be decontaminated but is               

4   packaged in the manner required under part 138 of the public                

5   health code,  Act No. 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, being                 

6   sections 333.13801 to 333.13831 of the Michigan Compiled Laws

7   1978 PA 368, MCL 333.13801 to 333.13831.                                    

8   (b) More than a de minimis amount of returnable containers.                 

9       (2) Subsection (1)(b) does not apply to green glass beverage                

10  containers.  The department shall convene a task force to make              

11  recommendations to the legislature on the special recycling                 

12  problems posed by green glass beverage containers.  The task                

13  force shall include, but need not be limited to, all of the                 

14  following:                                                                  

15      (a) A representative of the landfill industry.                              

16      (b) A representative of a company that manufactures or uses                 

17  green glass beverage containers.                                            

18      (c) A representative of a recycling company.                                

19      (d) A representative of an environmental organization.                      

20      (3) The task force under subsection (2) shall issue its                     

21  recommendations by December 31, 2004.  Subsection (2) does not              

22  apply after June 1, 2007 unless the legislature has enacted the             

23  recommendations of the task force by that date.                             

24  (4) As used in this section, "de minimis" means incidental                  

25  disposal of small amounts of these materials that are commingled            

26  with other solid waste.

27      Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take                      

1   effect unless House Bill No. 4098 of the 92nd Legislature is                

2   enacted into law.