Sec. 8807.
(1) The clean water fund is created within the state treasury.
(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments.
(3) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the department, in consultation with the department of agriculture and rural development, shall expend money in the fund, upon appropriation, for any of the following:
(a) To implement the programs described in the department's document entitled "A Strategic Environmental Quality Monitoring Program for Michigan's Surface Waters", dated January 1997. In implementing these programs, the department may contract with any person.
(b) Not more than $100,000.00 of the total annual appropriations from the fund to monitor and benchmark the effectiveness of conservation practices and MAEAP standards in cooperation with participating farmers.
(c) Promotion of MAEAP and activities to encourage more MAEAP-verified farms.
(d) Water pollution control activities.
(e) Wellhead protection activities.
(f) Storm water treatment projects and activities.
(5) Money in the fund shall not be expended for combined sewer overflow corrections.
(6) Money in the fund shall not be expended until rules are promulgated under section 8808.
History: Add. 1998, Act 287, Eff. Dec. 1, 1998 ;-- Am. 2011, Act 1, Imd. Eff. Mar. 9, 2011 ;-- Am. 2015, Act 118, Eff. Oct. 1, 2015
Popular Name: Act 451
Popular Name: NREPA