MI HR0151

Calls on Congress to reauthorize the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Act and increase appropriations for beach water quality monitoring

Notes that Michigan has over 3,200 miles of Great Lakes shoreline with more than 900 swimming beaches but can only monitor water quality at less than 25 percent of them

Identifies that Congress currently appropriates only $10 million annually for 35 state and territorial BEACH Act programs despite an authorization for up to $30 million

States that nationwide coastal states and territories have only been able to monitor water quality at 57 percent of beaches, and generally only on a weekly basis

Directs copies of the resolution be sent to the President of the U.S. Senate, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Michigan's congressional delegation