To establish fees for the existing hazardous waste and liquid industrial waste program. The program provides for reciprocal recognition of participating states' hazardous waste transporter permits, and uniform licensure and permit requirements for transporting hazardous material by motor vehicle. The fees would generate an estimated $1.6 million through manifest charges on individual shipments, and annual hazardous waste handler charges based on volume. The bill also provides incentives for hazardous waste generators that reduce the amount of waste through a process change, input substitution, recycling, etc..   Official Text and Analysis.

To amend the penalties for late payment of fees.

Which reflects changes adopted following committee testimony and discussion.

To authorize a local government to impose impact fees on the disposal of hazardous waste in a commercial hazardous waste injection well located within the municipality.

To impose the new fees beginning Oct. 31, 2001, rather than 2002.

To adopt a technical change in a reference contained in the bill.

To phase out a provision which provides refunds of fees to waste generators who decrease the generation of waste.

To define more precisely when the fees required by the bill are delinquent.

To authorize the City of Romulus to impose a five-cent per gallon impact fee on material deposited in a proposed commercial hazardous waste deep injection well located there.

To create a waste reduction fund in the Department of Treasury to pay for programs which reduce the amount of hazardous waste that is generated, including refunds of fees to firms which decrease the generation of waste.

To establish fees for the existing hazardous waste and liquid industrial waste program. The program provides for reciprocal recognition of participating states' hazardous waste transporter permits, and uniform licensure and permit requirements for transporting hazardous material by motor vehicle. The fees would generate an estimated $1.6 million through manifest charges on individual shipments, and annual hazardous waste handler charges based on volume. The bill also provides incentives for hazardous waste generators that reduce the amount of waste through a process change, input substitution, recycling, etc..

To authorize the City of Romulus to impose a five-cent per gallon impact fee on material deposited in a proposed commercial hazardous waste deep injection well located there.

To require that when proposed new federal standards for the maximum amount of arsenic permitted in drinking water become law, then the Department of Environmental Quality must offer to perform free well water tests in areas of the state known to have high groundwater arsenic content. The amendment authorizes spending up to $500,000 annually for the program.

To reconsider the vote by which the previous Ruth Johnson amendment passed. Rep. Ruth Johnson then withdrew her amendment.

To require that when new federal standards for the maximum amount of arsenic permitted in drinking water become law, then the Department of Environmental Quality must offer to perform free well water tests in areas of the state known to have high groundwater arsenic content. The amendment authorizes spending up to $500,000 annually for the program.

To authorize the City of Romulus to impose a five-cent per gallon impact fee on material deposited in a proposed commercial hazardous waste deep injection well located there.

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill, with amendments added.