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MI SB1192
Bill
AI Summary
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Creates a Water Supply Asset Management Council within the Department of Environmental Quality, consisting of 14 members representing various stakeholders including cities, counties, townships, academia, public health, community planners, and a non-voting central data storage agency representative, with members appointed by the director for 3-year terms.
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Requires the council to develop procedures and requirements for asset management administration within 90 days of its first meeting, covering training, data storage, reporting, multiyear program development, budgeting, and quality control standards consistent with federal requirements and government accounting standards.
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Mandates each community water supply to annually submit a multiyear program report to the council detailing projects anticipated over a 3-year period, with accurate record-keeping on work performed and funds expended according to council-developed procedures.
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Establishes a central data storage agency, to be designated within 45 days of the law's effective date, where asset management data collected from community supplies will be stored and maintained.
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Adds new definitions to the Safe Drinking Water Act including "asset management," "capacity assessment," "central data storage agency," "council," and "multiyear program" to support the new asset management framework.
Legislative Description
Water; other; water supply asset management council; create and require asset management reports from community supplies. Amends sec. 2 of 1976 PA 399 (MCL 325.1002) & adds sec. 25.
Environmental protection: other
Last Action
Referred To Committee On Government Operations
12/14/2016