Bill Text: MI HB6536 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Trade; containers; registration and reporting requirements for recyclers; revise reference to repealed beverage container law. Amends sec. 17501 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.17501). TIE BAR WITH: HB 6532'18, HB 6533'18, HB 6534'18, HB 6535'18

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-11-28 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 11/27/2018 [HB6536 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB6536-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 6536

 

 

November 27, 2018, Introduced by Rep. Rendon and referred to the Committee on Michigan Competitiveness.

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

 

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

 

by amending section 17501 (MCL 324.17501), as added by 2016 PA 55.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 17501. As used in this part:

 

     (a) "Commercial waste" means all types of solid waste

 

generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other

 

nonmanufacturing activities, but does not include household waste

 

from single residences, hazardous waste, or industrial waste.

 

Commercial waste includes solid waste from any of the following:

 

     (i) Multiple residences.

 

     (ii) Hotels and motels.

 

     (iii) Bunkhouses.

 

     (iv) Ranger stations.

 

     (v) Campgrounds.

 

     (vi) Picnic grounds.

 

     (vii) Day-use recreation areas.

 

     (b) "Department" means the department of environmental

 

quality.

 

     (c) "Household waste" means any solid waste that is derived

 

from single residences, but does not include any of the following:

 

     (i) Commercial waste.

 

     (ii) Industrial waste.

 

     (iii) Construction and demolition waste.

 

     (d) "Recyclable materials" means that term as it is defined in

 

section 11505.

 

     (e) "Recycling" means an action or process, such as

 

separation, sorting, baling, or shipping, applied to reportable

 

recyclable materials for the purposes of reuse or conversion into

 

raw materials or new products.

 

     (f) "Recycling establishment" means an establishment engaged

 

in recycling of, or brokering of, reportable recyclable materials.

 

Recycling establishment does not include any of the following:

 

     (i) An establishment that recycles fewer than 100 tons per

 

year.

 

     (ii) A retail establishment that bales cardboard packaging for

 

off-site shipment.

 

     (iii) A retail establishment that collects returnable beverage

 

containers under 1976 IL 1, MCL 445.571 to 445.576, for transfer to

 

a recycling establishment. This subparagraph does not apply after

 

January 1, 2025.

     (iv) An end user of reportable recyclable materials such as a

 

paper mill, steel mill, foundry, or die caster that converts the

 

reportable recyclable materials into new products or raw materials

 

for conversion into new products.

 

     (v) A drop-off recycling location that sends all reportable

 

recyclable materials to a recycling establishment registered under

 

section 17502.

 

     (vi) An establishment that ships reportable recyclable

 

material to recycling establishments registered under section 17502

 

but that does not engage in any other recycling.

 

     (g) "Reportable recyclable materials", subject to subdivision

 

(h), means any of the following categories of recyclable materials

 

that are separated from household waste or commercial waste, or

 

from a combination of household waste and commercial waste, and

 

that are delivered to a recycling establishment for recycling:

 

     (i) Glass.

 

     (ii) Paper and paper products.

 

     (iii) Plastic and plastic products.

 

     (iv) Ferrous metal, including white goods.

 

     (v) Nonferrous metal.

 

     (vi) Textiles.

 

     (vii) Single stream recyclable materials that include any

 

combination of the materials listed in subparagraphs (i) to (vi).

 

     (h) "Reportable recyclable materials" does not include any of

 

the following:

 

     (i) Materials or products that contain iron, steel, or

 

nonferrous metals and that are directed to or received by a person

subject to the scrap metal regulatory act, 2008 PA 429, MCL 445.421

 

to 445.443, or by a reuser of these metals.

 

     (ii) Materials generated from the shredding or dismantling of

 

motor vehicles or parts of motor vehicles.

 

     (iii) A beneficial use by-product, as defined in section

 

11502.

 

     (iv) A covered electronic device reported under part 173.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless all of the following bills of the 99th Legislature are

 

enacted into law:

 

     (a) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6532 (request no.

 

03419'17).

 

     (b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6533 (request no.

 

03419'17 a).

 

     (c) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6534 (request no.

 

03419'17 b).

 

     (d) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6535 (request no.

 

03419'17 c).