SENATE BILL No. 767

 

 

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.