SENATE BILL No. 557

 

 

June 2, 2005, Introduced by Senators BRATER, JACOBS, PRUSI, BASHAM, SCHAUER, OLSHOVE and CHERRY 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 17210.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 17210. A person who is in the business of replacing or

 

repairing household items shall not place a mercury-added product

 

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 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 described in section 17207(3)(d).

 

     Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless all of the following bills of the 93rd Legislature are


 

enacted into law:

 

     (a) Senate Bill No. 186 or House Bill No. 4058.

 

     (b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No.____ (request no.

 

03396'05).