MCL - Section 324.19507

NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 451 of 1994


324.19507 Disposition and allocation of bond proceeds; investment of fund; allocation and disposition of interest and earnings; transfer of repayments of principal and interest; disposition of unencumbered balance.

Sec. 19507.

    (1) The total proceeds of all bonds issued under former Act No. 326 of the Public Acts of 1988 or part 193 shall be deposited into the fund and allocated as follows:
    (a) Except as provided in section 19508(1)(a)(ii) and as otherwise provided in this act, not more than $425,000,000.00 shall be used to clean up sites of toxic and other environmental contamination.
    (b) Not more than $150,000,000.00 shall be used for solid waste projects including, but not limited to, reducing, recycling, and properly disposing of solid waste. Money that is available under this subdivision but not appropriated and money that is appropriated under this subdivision that reverts to the fund shall be transferred to the cleanup and redevelopment fund created in section 20108.
    (c) Not more than $60,000,000.00 shall be used to capitalize the state water pollution control revolving fund established pursuant to section 16a of the shared credit rating act, Act No. 227 of the Public Acts of 1985, being section 141.1066a of the Michigan Compiled Laws.
    (d) Not more than $25,000,000.00 shall be used to fund this state's participation in a regional Great Lakes protection fund.
    (2) The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. Except as otherwise may be required by the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds in order to maintain the exclusion from gross income of the interest paid on the bonds or to comply with state or federal law, interest and earnings from investment of the proceeds of any bond issue shall be transferred to the cleanup and redevelopment fund created in section 20108, except for the fiscal years 1992-93 and 1993-94, when any such interest and earnings accrued in those, or prior fiscal years, shall be deposited in the state water pollution control revolving fund established pursuant to section 16a of Act No. 227 of the Public Acts of 1985.
    (3) Except as otherwise may be required by the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds in order to maintain the exclusion from gross income of the interest paid on the bonds or to comply with state or federal law, all repayments of principal and interest earned under a loan program created with money under subsection (1)(b) shall be transferred to the cleanup and redevelopment fund created in section 20108.
    (4) The unencumbered balance in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not revert to the general fund.


History: Add. 1995, Act 60, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995 ;-- Am. 1996, Act 380, Imd. Eff. July 24, 1996
Popular Name: Act 451
Popular Name: NREPA