| FY 2003-04 Year-to-Date Gross Appropriation | $373,552,675 |
| Changes from FY 2003-04 Year-to-Date: | |
| Items Included by the Senate and House | |
| 1. Environmental Health Fees. The budget includes increased fees to offset reductions of GF/GP support for the Manufactured Housing ($621,200) and Recreational Resources programs ($333,400). | 0 |
| 2. Economic Adjustments and Employee-Related Savings. Funding is provided for adjustments to salaries and wages, workers' compensation, building occupancy, retirement, insurance, and information technology. The budget also removes 5% of the FY 2003-04 budget for salaries and wages | 6,074,600 |
| 3. Other Changes. The budget includes savings from a consolidation of human resource functions in the Department of Civil Service, removal of one-time items in FY 2003-04, a 10% reduction in information technology, and other incremental adjustments. | (15,108,975) |
| Conference Agreement on Items of Difference | |
| 4. Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring. The budget includes General Fund and settlement funds appropriations for a pilot project in the City of Algonac for real-time water quality monitoring. * The Governor vetoed this funding and boilerplate. |
0 |
| 5. Cleanup Projects. The Conference Committee concurs with the Senate and removes funding for all new cleanup projects. | (21,715,000) |
| 6. Submerged Log Recovery. The Conference Committee concurs with the House and eliminates this program. | (101,600) |
| 7. Administrative Savings. The Conference Committee includes General Fund reductions recommended by the Governor. | (206,200) |
| 8. Dioxin Study. The Conference Committee includes funding from the Clean Michigan Initiative-response activities and language recommended by the House. * The Governor vetoed this funding and boilerplate. |
0 |
| 9. Laboratory Program. The Conference Committee includes an appropriation of new commercial laboratory fees, but does not include 8.0 additional laboratory positions. | 15,000 |
| 10. MUSTFA. The Conference Committee offsets General Fund reductions of $8,207,200 with appropriations from the MI Underground Storage Tank Financial Assurance Fund. | 0 |
| 11. Beach Water Quality Monitoring. The Conference Committee provides funding for monitoring on selected Great Lakes beaches. | 25,000 |
| 12. Other Issues. The Conference Committee makes other adjustments to reflect Target decisions and for supplemental appropriations in FY 2003-04. | (1,936,200) |
| Total Changes | ($32,953,375) |
| FY 2004-05 Enacted Gross Appropriation | $340,599,300 |
| Changes from FY 2003-04 Year to Date: |
| Items Included by the Senate and House |
| 1. The budget includes current year language regarding the hiring freeze, a report on restricted fund balances, public meeting on water diversion requests, reporting requirements for grant and loan programs, MI Youth Conservation Council, travel expenditures, air quality expenditures, the Great Lakes Water Quality bond, and inspections of out-of-state waste. |
| 2. Safe Drinking Water Assistance. The budget includes language requiring the Department to allocate the full 2% of Federal safe drinking water funding available for technical assistance. (Sec. 902) |
| Conference Agreement on Items of Difference |
| 3. The Conference Committee does not include sections regarding contingency funds, employee savings, budgetary savings, FTE reductions, lease review and reduction, the hazardous materials program, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Fund, and lake-effect agriculture. |
| 4. Retention of Reports. The Conference Committee includes a section requiring the Department to retain copies of all reports. (Sec. 207) |
| 5. Carry-forward of Cleanup Funds. The Conference Committee retains language authorizing the carry-forward of previously appropriated cleanup funds. (Sec. 212) |
| 6. Limitation on Travel. The Conference Committee includes the standard language for all budgets. (Sec. 216) |
| 7. Areas of Concern. The Conference Committee retains House language regarding Department activities in Michigan's areas of concern. (Sec. 218) |
| 8. Laboratory Services. The Conference Committee revises House and Senate language to give first preference of contracts to successful participants in the new Lab Quality Recognition Program. (Sec. 502) |
| 9. Waiver of Certain Permit Fees. The Conference Committee retains this long-standing language. (Sec. 602) |
| 10. Wetland and Floodplain Mapping. The Conference Committee requires completion of the wetland inventory by August 30, 2005 or the General Fund appropriation would be reduced by $5.0 million. (Sec. 603) * The Governor vetoed this language. |
| 11. Cleanup Work Projects. The Conference Committee retains Senate language authorizing work projects for environmental cleanup appropriations in Part 1. (Sec. 701) |
| 12. Cleanup Sites. The Conference Committee does not include a listing of new cleanup projects since no funding is provided in Part 1. |
| 13. Dioxin Study. The Conference Committee includes House language requiring the contracting of a dioxin bio-availability study. (Sec. 703) * The Governor vetoed this language. |
| 14. Scrap Tire Processing. The Conference Committee does not include language addressing value-added scrap tire processing. |
| 15. Composting activities. The Conference Committee does not include Senate language regarding composting in Zeeland. |
| 16. Beach Water Quality Monitoring. The Conference Committee retains the Senate language designating the Great Lakes beaches where this $25,000 grant would be used. (Sec. 904) |
| 17. Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring. The budget designates funding of $250,000 in Part 1 as a grant to the City of Algonac for a pilot project in real-time water quality monitoring. (Sec. 903) * The Governor vetoed this language. |
| 18. Fish Barrier Challenge Grant. The Conference Committee designates funding in Part 1 as a challenge grant to other Great Lakes states to fund a barrier to alien invasive species. (Sec. 1103) |