HOUSE BILL NO. 4248

February 16, 2021, Introduced by Reps. Neeley, Sneller, Cherry, Brenda Carter, Hood, Hope, O'Neal, Thanedar, Scott, Brabec, Clemente, Shannon, Coleman, Young, Koleszar, Brixie, LaGrand, Stone, Puri, Bolden, Cavanagh, Morse, Liberati, Cynthia Johnson, Manoogian, Cambensy, Hammoud, Hertel, Garza, Sowerby, Aiyash, Tyrone Carter, Camilleri, Steckloff, Breen, Sabo, Rabhi, Kuppa, Jones, Rogers, Anthony and Yancey and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation.

A bill to amend 1976 PA 399, entitled

"Safe drinking water act,"

by amending section 2 (MCL 325.1002), as amended by 1998 PA 56, and by adding section 7a.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 2. As used in this act:

(a) "Bottled drinking water" means water that is ultimately sold, provided, or offered for human consumption in a closed container.

(b) "Capacity assessment" means an evaluation of the technical, financial, and managerial capability of a community supply or nontransient noncommunity water supply to comply and maintain compliance with all requirements of this act and the rules promulgated under this act.

(c) "Child care center" means that term as defined in section 1 of 1973 PA 116, MCL 722.111.

(d) (c) "Community supply" means a public water supply that provides year-round service to not no fewer than 15 living units or which that regularly provides year-round service to not no fewer than 25 residents.

(e) (d) "Contaminant" means a physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance or matter in water.

(f) (e) "Customer service connection" means the pipe between a water main and customer site piping or building plumbing system.

(g) (f) "Customer site piping" means an underground piping system owned or controlled by the customer that conveys water from the customer service connection to building plumbing systems and other points of use on lands owned or controlled by the customer. Customer site piping does not include any system that incorporates treatment to protect public health.

(h) (g) "Department" means the department of environmental quality environment, Great Lakes, and energy or its authorized agent or representative.

(i) (h) "Director" means the director of the department of environmental quality or his or her authorized agent or representative.

(j) (i) "Imminent hazard" means a condition that, in the judgment of the director, there is a violation, or a condition that is or may cause a violation , of the state drinking water standards at a public water supply requiring immediate action to prevent endangering the public health. of people.

(k) (j) "Living unit" means a house, apartment, or other domicile occupied or intended to be occupied on a day to day basis by an individual, family group, or equivalent.

(l) (k) "Noncommunity supply" means a public water supply that is not a community supply, but that has not less no fewer than 15 service connections or that serves not no fewer than 25 individuals on an average daily basis for not less no fewer than 60 days per year.

(m) (l) "Nontransient noncommunity water supply" means a noncommunity public water supply that serves not no fewer than 25 of the same individuals on an average daily basis over 6 months per year. This definition Nontransient noncommunity water supply includes water supplies in places of employment, schools, and day-care child care centers.

(n) (m) "Person" means an individual, partnership, copartnership, cooperative, firm, company, public or private association or corporation, political subdiv