Bill Text: MI HB5333 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Environmental protection: solid waste; nonhazardous solid waste disposal fees; increase and distribute percentage to host communities. Amends sec. 11525a of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.11525a).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-12-31 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 11/14/2023 [HB5333 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB5333-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5333
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled
"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"
by amending section 11525a (MCL 324.11525a), as amended by 2023 PA 140.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 11525a. (1) The Subject to subsection (2), the owner or operator of a landfill or coal ash impoundment shall pay a surcharge as follows:
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), for a landfill or coal ash impoundment that is not a captive facility, 36 cents 72 cents for each ton or portion of a ton of solid waste or municipal solid waste incinerator ash that is disposed of in the landfill or coal ash impoundment. before October 1, 2027.
(b) For a landfill or coal ash impoundment that is not a captive facility, 12 cents 24 cents per ton or portion of a ton of foundry sand, slag from metal melting, baghouse dust, furnace refractory brick, pulp and paper mill material, paper mill ash, wood ash, coal bottom ash, mixed wood ash, fly ash, flue gas desulfurization sludge, contaminated soil, cement kiln dust, lime kiln dust, and other industrial waste that weighs at least 1 ton per cubic yard, as determined by the generator.
(c) For a type III landfill or coal ash impoundment that is a captive facility and annually receives the following amount of waste, the following annual corresponding surcharge for each state fiscal year, based on the amount of waste received during that fiscal year:
(i) 100,000 or more tons of waste, $3,000.00.$6,000.00.
(ii) 75,000 or more but less than 100,000 tons of waste, $2,500.00.$5,000.00.
(iii) 50,000 or more but less than 75,000 tons of waste, $2,000.00.$4,000.00.
(iv) 25,000 or more but less than 50,000 tons of waste, $1,000.00.$2,000.00.
(v) Less than 25,000 tons of waste, $500.00.
(2) Beginning January 1, 2029, and every fifth year thereafter, the state treasurer shall adjust the currently applicable surcharges under this section by an amount determined by the state treasurer to reflect the cumulative percentage change in the Consumer Price Index during the most recent 5-year period for which Consumer Price Index statistics are available. For surcharges under subsection (1)(a) and (b), the result shall be rounded to the nearest cent. For surcharges under subsection (1)(c), the result shall be rounded to the nearest 10 dollars. As used in this subsection, "Consumer Price Index" means the most comprehensive index of consumer prices available for this state from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor, or a successor agency.
(3) (2) Within 30 days after the end of each quarter of a state fiscal year, the owner or operator of a landfill or coal ash impoundment that is not a captive facility shall pay the surcharge under subsection (1)(a) or (b) for waste received during that quarter of the state fiscal year. Within 30 days after the end of a state fiscal year, the owner or operator of a type III landfill or coal ash impoundment that is a captive facility shall pay the surcharge under subsection (1)(b) (1)(c) for waste received during that state fiscal year.
(4) (3) If the owner or operator of a landfill or coal ash impoundment is required to pay the surcharge under subsection (1), the owner or operator shall pass through and collect the surcharge from any person that generated the solid waste or arranged for its delivery to the hauler or solid waste processing and transfer facility, notwithstanding the provisions of any agreement to the contrary or the absence of any agreement.
(5) (4) Surcharges collected under this section must be forwarded to the state treasurer for deposit as follows:
(a) 75% in the solid waste staff account of the solid waste management fund. However, if the city or township that is the site of a landfill or coal ash impoundment has a host community agreement under which it receives revenue from the owner or operator of the landfill or coal ash impoundment, 100% of the surcharges collected from the owner or operator of that landfill shall be deposited in the solid waste staff account.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (a), 25% in the host community grants fund created in subsection (6).
(6) The host community grants fund is created in the state treasury. The state treasurer shall deposit money and other assets received under subsection (5)(b) or from any other lawful source in the fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of money in the fund and credit interest and earnings from the investments to the fund. The department is the administrator of the fund for audits of the fund. The department shall expend money from the fund, on appropriation, only for annual grants to cities and townships that are the sites of landfills and coal ash impoundments that pay surcharges under this section, a portion of which are deposited in the host community grants fund under subsection (5). The department shall award grants by December 1 each year. Each grant shall equal the amount of the surcharges deposited in the host community grants fund during the prior state fiscal year from landfills and coal ash impoundments located in the territory of the respective grant recipient and a proportionate share of money in the fund other than revenue under subsection (5)(b). This subsection does not apply to surcharges collected before the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection.
