HB-5317, As Passed Senate, December 18, 2014

SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 5317

     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, 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 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, 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 ensure 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 that 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or rescinded by the director under this act.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 rule promulgated may A rule shall not require the

addition of any substance for preventive health care purposes

unrelated to contamination of drinking water.

     (4) A guideline issued by the department, a rule promulgated

under this section, or an approved comprehensive control program

for the elimination and prevention of all cross-connections under R

325.11404 of the Michigan administrative code shall not require the

House Bill No. 5317 as December 18, 2014

testing of a testable backflow preventer on a residential lawn

sprinkler system more often than once every <<5>> years after initial

installation and testing, unless the backflow preventer has

undergone repair since it was last tested or the sprinkler system

includes a chemical injection system.

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

unless House Bill No. 5318 of the 97th Legislature is enacted into

law.