HB 5902 Summary

• Amends Michigan's Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act to add "low-impact development" as a defined term for land development that mimics presettlement hydrology using decentralized controls to infiltrate, filter, store, evaporate, and detain stormwater near its source.

• Establishes new priority criteria for stormwater treatment projects with equal rankings, giving first priority to projects that substantially utilize low-impact development, restore or create native habitat, or assist in total maximum daily load compliance.

• Expands the definition of "construction activities" to include "design and engineering services" (previously "engineering services only") and acquisition of "plants, landscaping materials, and structural components" for water pollution control projects.

• Updates technical references by removing citations to specific public law numbers and cleaning up statutory cross-references throughout the priority list development and project ranking sections.

• Modifies the disadvantaged community definition criteria, with particular changes to how user cost burdens are calculated as a percentage of median household income for projects in communities at or below 120% of statewide median income.