SEPTAGE WASTE VEHICLE LIC. TRANSFER S.B. 1227: COMMITTEE SUMMARY
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Senate Bill 1227 (as introduced 3-20-08)
Sponsor: Senator Ron Jelinek
Committee: Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs


Date Completed: 9-17-08

CONTENT The bill would amend Part 117 (Septage Waste Servicers) to establish a fee for the transfer of a septage waste vehicle license from one vehicle to another.

The cost of administering Part 117 is recovered by the collection of fees from people engaged in servicing (i.e., cleaning, removing, transporting, or disposing, by application to land or otherwise, of septage waste). The fee for a septage waste vehicle license is $350 per vehicle per year, if none of the vehicles owned by the license applicant will be used at any time during the license period for disposal of septage waste by land application. If any of the vehicles will be used during the license period for that purpose, the fee is $480 per vehicle per year.


Under the bill, the fee to transfer a septage waste vehicle license, during a year in which the annual fee had been paid, from one vehicle to another under the same ownership would be $200, if the vehicle from which the license was being transferred had been inspected for that year as required under Part 117. If the vehicle from which the license was being transferred had not been inspected for that year, the fee would be $150.


MCL 324.11717b Legislative Analyst: Julie Cassidy

FISCAL IMPACT
The bill would generate an unknown amount of revenue from the transfer fees, which would be deposited into the Septage Waste Program Fund. The fees would be set at a level to cover the costs of processing a license transfer. The amount of revenue collected would depend on the number of license transfer requests received by the Department of Environmental Quality. The Fund is used for administration of the program.

Fiscal Analyst: Jessica Runnels

Analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent. sb1227/0708