SENATE BILL No. 421

 

 

April 26, 2005, Introduced by Senators SWITALSKI, SCOTT, BRATER, JELINEK, JACOBS and CLARKE and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs.

 

 

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

 

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

 

(MCL 324.101 to 324.90106) by adding section 17213.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 17213. A person who is in the business of replacing or

 

repairing fluorescent or high-density discharge lamps that are

 

mercury-added products for industrial, commercial, office, or

 

multiunit residential structures shall not place those items or a

 

component of those items into the waste stream except under 1 of

 

the following circumstances:

 

     (a) As universal waste managed and disposed of under part 2 of

 

the hazardous waste management rules, R 299.9201 to R 299.9230 of

 


the Michigan administrative code.

 

     (b) As hazardous waste managed and disposed of under part 111.

 

     (c) By delivery to a take-back program established by a

 

manufacturer under section 17207(3)(d).