September 21, 2005, Introduced by Senator CROPSEY 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 sections 8911, 8913, 8915, and
8917.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 8911. The state transportation department, assisted by
the department of environmental quality and the recycling
coordinator appointed under section 17402, shall, by 1 year from
the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section,
conduct or have conducted a comprehensive study of the litter
problems of this state and publish the results of the study. The
state transportation department shall provide a copy of the study
to the standing committees of both houses of the legislature with
jurisdiction over matters primarily relating to natural resources
and the environment. The study shall include, but not be limited
to, all of the following:
(a) The incidence of littering in the various areas of this
state.
(b) A descriptive categorization of areas where littering is
greatest, with, to the extent possible, the relative incidence of
littering in each type of area.
(c) Demographic information about persons who litter.
Sec. 8913. (1) Travel Michigan, assisted by the department of
environmental quality and the department of natural resources,
shall develop, from the study conducted under section 8911, and
administer a marketing program designed to reduce the incidence of
littering in this state.
(2) In administering the marketing program developed under
this section, travel Michigan shall do both of the following:
(a) Use a single marketing slogan, developed in part from
suggestions by children who attend schools in this state.
(b) Coordinate the marketing program with this state's
recycling program.
(3) As part of the marketing program developed under this
section, travel Michigan may do 1 or more of the following:
(a) Work with the state transportation department to expand
the adopt-a-highway program established by the state transportation
department to highways that are not served by volunteers under the
adopt-a-highway program.
(b) Work with the department of environmental quality to
increase volunteer participation in programs similar to the adopt-
a-highway program that seek to remove litter from areas of this
state through volunteer programs.
(4) Travel Michigan may contract with 1 or more private
persons to develop and administer the marketing program under this
section.
Sec. 8915. The state transportation department shall provide a
volunteer group conducting litter cleanup under its adopt-a-highway
program with data information sheets and shall request that the
volunteer group record on the data information sheets a general
characterization of the types and amount of trash collected during
the group's cleanup effort. The state transportation department
shall request the group to forward the data information sheets to
the department of environmental quality on completion.
Sec. 8917. (1) The department of environmental quality shall
compile information that it receives about litter collected under
the following programs and any similar programs conducted in this
state:
(a) The adopt-a-highway program established by the state
transportation department.
(b) The adopt-a-shoreline program established under part 358.
(c) The adopt-a-river program established under part 359.
(d) The adopt-a-trail program established under section
72105a.
(e) The adopt-a-park program established under section 74104.
(2) By December 31 of each year, the department of
environmental quality shall provide a report of the information
compiled under subsection (1) to the committees of both houses of
the legislature with primary jurisdiction over matters relating to
natural resources and the environment, to travel Michigan, and to
the recycling advisory council created under section 17302.
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. 676.
(b) Senate Bill No. 677.