February 12, 2003, Introduced by Senators CHERRY, BASHAM, JACOBS, BRATER, CLARK-COLEMAN, SCHAUER, OLSHOVE and LELAND 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,"
by amending sections 11505 and 11514 (MCL 324.11505 and
324.11514).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 Sec. 11505. (1) "Recyclable materials" means source
2 separated materials, site separated materials, high grade paper,
3 glass, metal, plastic, aluminum, newspaper, corrugated paper,
4 yard clippings, and other materials that may be recycled or
5 composted.
6 (2) "Regional solid waste management planning agency" means
7 the regional solid waste planning agency designated by the
8 governor pursuant to section 4006 of subtitle D of the solid
9 waste disposal act, title II of Public Law 89-272, 42
10 U.S.C. 6946.
1 (3) "Resource recovery facility" means machinery, equipment,
2 structures, or any parts or accessories of machinery, equipment,
3 or structures, installed or acquired for the primary purpose of
4 recovering materials or energy from the waste stream.
5 (4) "Response activity" means an activity that is necessary
6 to protect the public health, safety, welfare, or the
7 environment, and includes, but is not limited to, evaluation,
8 cleanup, removal, containment, isolation, treatment, monitoring,
9 maintenance, replacement of water supplies, and temporary
10 relocation of people.
11 (5) "Returnable container" means that term as defined in
12 section 1 of the Initiated Law of 1976, MCL 445.571.
13 (6) (5) "Rubbish"
means nonputrescible solid waste,
14 excluding ashes, consisting of both combustible and
15 noncombustible waste, including paper, cardboard, metal
16 containers, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery,
17 demolished building materials, or litter of any kind that may be
18 a detriment to the public health and safety.
19 (7) (6) "Salvaging"
means the lawful and controlled removal
20 of reusable materials from solid waste.
21 (8) (7) "Site
separated material" means glass, metal, wood,
22 paper products, plastics, rubber, textiles, garbage, yard
23 clippings, or any other material approved by the department that
24 is separated from solid waste for the purpose of conversion into
25 raw materials or new products. Site separated material does not
26 include the residue remaining after glass, metal, wood, paper
27 products, plastics, rubber, textiles, or any other material
1 approved by the department is separated from solid waste.
2 (9) (8) "Slag"
means the nonmetallic product resulting from
3 melting or smelting operations for iron or steel.
4 Sec. 11514. A person shall not knowingly dispose of, and an
5 owner or operator of a landfill shall not knowingly permit the
6 disposal of , medical
waste in a landfill either of the
7 following in a landfill:
8 (a) Medical waste, unless that medical waste has been
9 decontaminated or is not required to be decontaminated but is
10 packaged in the manner required under part 138 of the public
11 health code, Act No.
368 of the Public Acts of 1978, being
12 sections 333.13801 to
333.13831 of the Michigan Compiled Laws
13 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.13801 to 333.13831.
14 (b) A returnable container.