HOUSE BILL No. 5375

 

 

December 13, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Brinks, Camilleri, Hertel, Greig, Hoadley, Lasinski and Chang and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 399, entitled

 

"Safe drinking water act,"

 

by amending section 5 (MCL 325.1005), as amended by 1998 PA 56.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 5. (1) The department shall promulgate and enforce rules

 

to carry out this act pursuant to the administrative procedures act

 

of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328. The rules, at a

 

minimum, shall include the following:

 

     (a) Requirements for the submission of reports, plans, and

 

specifications for the design and construction of a waterworks

 

system or a part thereof, of a waterworks system, and a plan for

 

operating and maintaining all or a part of the waterworks system,

 

including the protection of water quality within the distribution


system as necessary to protect the public health.

 

     (b) State Subject to subsection (4), state drinking water

 

standards and associated monitoring requirements, the attainment

 

and maintenance of which are necessary to protect the public

 

health.

 

     (c) The classification of waterworks systems or portions

 

thereof, of waterworks systems, the examination for certification

 

of the operators of those systems including shift operators of

 

water treatment systems, and for the issuance, suspension, and

 

revocation of certificates.

 

     (d) Criteria for capacity assessments performed by the

 

department at community supplies, nontransient noncommunity water

 

supplies, or a public water supply applying to the department for

 

assistance under part 54 of the natural resources and environmental

 

protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.5401 to 324.5418.

 

     (e) Requirements for provision of facilities by public water

 

supplies that will assure an adequate and reliable supply of

 

drinking water on a continuous basis.

 

     (2) Rules governing public water supplies promulgated under

 

former 1913 PA 98, and which were in effect on January 4, 1977 are

 

continued in accordance with section 31 of the administrative

 

procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.231, and may be amended

 

or rescinded by the director under this act.

 

     (3) No A rule promulgated may under this act shall not require

 

the addition of any substance for preventive health care purposes

 

unrelated to contamination of drinking water.

 

     (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act or a rule


promulgated under this act, the state drinking water standards

 

shall include the following:

 

     (a) Perfluorooctane, 5 parts per trillion.

 

     (b) Perfluorooctanoic acid, 5 parts per trillion.