2003 Senate Bill 289 ↩

Senate Roll Call 98: Passed

To impose a $100 fee on irrigation systems, industries and municipal water systems that pump more than 100,000 gallons of groundwater per day. Part of the revenue would be used to pay for a statewide groundwater inventory map, which the Department of Natural Resources would be required to develop within two years. Farms that file a water use conservation plan would not have to pay the fee. The bill would impose new reporting requirements on industrial users, and a less rigorous reporting requirement on farms. The substitute is tie-barred to <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2003-HB-4087">House Bill 4087</a>, which establishes a groundwater conflict resolution process. It does not contain the permit requirements of the original bill.