SENATE BILL No. 552

 

 

May 31, 2005, Introduced by Senators SCHAUER, JACOBS, BRATER, LELAND and BERNERO 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 section 17212.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 17212. (1) A person who is in the business of renovating

 

or demolishing any residential, industrial, or commercial structure

 

shall not place a mercury-added product into the waste stream

 

except under 1 of the following circumstances:

 

     (a) As universal waste managed and disposed of under part 2 of

 

the hazardous waste management rules, R 299.9201 to R 299.9230 of

 

the Michigan administrative code.

 

     (b) As hazardous waste managed and disposed of under part 111.


 

     (c) By delivery to a take-back program established by a

 

manufacturer under section 17207(3)(d).

 

     (2) A person who is in the business of renovating or

 

demolishing any residential, industrial, or commercial structure

 

shall keep a record of all mercury-added products that the person

 

places in the waste stream. A person subject to this subsection

 

shall, not later than January 31 of each year after the effective

 

date of the amendatory act that added this subsection, submit to

 

the department, on a form prepared and provided by the department,

 

a report of all mercury-added products, or components of mercury-

 

added products, placed into the waste stream during the preceding

 

calendar year.