HOUSE BILL No. 4255

 

 

February 21, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Hammoud, Chang, Rabhi, Pagan, Hoadley, Phelps, Yanez, Green, Gay-Dagnogo and Inman and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

 

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

 

(MCL 324.101 to 324.90106) by adding section 5506a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 5506a. (1) An application for a new or renewal permit

 

under this part and a permit for which an application was filed on

 

or after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this

 

section shall include a plan for the appropriate reduction of

 

emissions to protect air quality on winter thermal inversion action

 

days declared under section 5543 for the geographic area where the

 

emissions source is located. When a winter thermal inversion action

 

day is declared for the geographic area where the emissions source

 

is located, the permittee shall comply with the plan and promptly

 

report to the department, in the manner required by the department,

 

the steps taken for compliance.

 


     (2) If a new or renewal permit issued under this part after

 

the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section

 

provides for an emissions averaging period, the emissions averaging

 

period for the months of November through March shall not exceed 8

 

hours and exceedances of the required average during that 5-month

 

period shall not total more than 1 hour.

 

     (3) As used in this section, "thermal inversion" means that

 

term as defined in section 5543.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.

 

     Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. 4256 (request no.

 

01254'17) of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.