Bill Text: MI SB0438 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Environmental protection; other; stratified random sampling process; establish for inspections under NREPA. Amends 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.101 - 324.90106) by adding sec. 1505.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-06-17 - Referred To Committee On Great Lakes And Environment [SB0438 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-SB0438-Engrossed.html

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SB-0438, As Passed Senate, June 17, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE BILL No. 438

 

 

April 2, 2009, Introduced by Senators RICHARDVILLE, PAPPAGEORGE, KUIPERS, SANBORN, GILBERT, CROPSEY, PATTERSON, JELINEK, BROWN, GEORGE, JANSEN, ALLEN and KAHN and referred to the Committee on Economic Development and Regulatory Reform.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

 

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

 

(MCL 324.101 to 324.90106) by adding section 1505.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1505. (1) The department, the department of environmental

 

quality, or any other state department that performs routine

 

inspections under this act shall use a stratified random sampling

 

process to select persons to inspect.

 

     (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any of the following:

 

     (a) An inspection performed in response to a complaint from a

 

third party.

 

     (b) An inspection performed because the department, the

 

department of environmental quality, or any other state department

 

that performs routine inspections under this act has evidence that

 

a violation has occurred.

 

     (c) A follow-up inspection to determine whether violations

 

identified in a previous inspection have been corrected.

 

     (3) The department, the department of environmental quality,

 

or any other state department that performs routine inspections

 

under this act shall annually submit to the legislature a report on

 

all of the following:

 

     (a) The methods used to comply with this section.

 

     (b) The number of such routine inspections and the number of

 

inspections described in subsection (2) that were performed by that

 

entity during the prior year.

 

     (c) The location of the inspections.

 

     (4) As used in this section, "stratified random sampling

 

process" means a process that meets all of the following

 

requirements:

 

     (a) The population is divided into distinct nonoverlapping

 

subgroups based on important characteristics.

 

     (b) A sample is then selected from each subgroup through a

 

process in which each person in that subgroup has an equal chance

of being selected.

     (c) The size of the sample from each subgroup is proportional to the size of the subgroup.