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• Introduced by Rep. John Moolenaar (R) on June 1, 2004, to require that hazardous material cleanups involving the chemical dioxin use the federal cleanup standards. The Department of Environmental Quality has proposed testing the soil on some 21,000 properties and 11,000 homes in the Midland and Saginaw area for the presence of dioxin, using a 90 parts per trillion standard that is reportedly 10 times more stringent than the standard imposed by federal environmental laws. The presence of more than this amount would require that the soil be removed from a particular property.
  • Referred to the House Government Operations Committee on June 1, 2004.