Michigan Laws 722.113l – Department of licensing and regulatory affairs; support for maintaining compliance; training on filter use, installation, and maintenance; guidance documents
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 722.113l
- Child care center: means a facility, other than a private residence, receiving 1 or more children under 13 years of age for care for periods of less than 24 hours a day, where the parents or guardians are not immediately available to the child. See Michigan Laws 722.111
- Department: means the department of health and human services and the department of licensing and regulatory affairs or a successor agency or department responsible for licensure under this act. See Michigan Laws 722.111
- Faucet: means a valve end of a water pipe by which water is drawn from or held within the pipe. See Michigan Laws 722.111
- station: means an apparatus that meets all of the following requirements:
(i) Is connected to customer site piping. See Michigan Laws 722.111
(1) The department of licensing and regulatory affairs, in coordination with the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy, shall assist each child care center in maintaining compliance with section 3i and 3j by providing all of the following:
(a) A template for the drinking water management plan required under section 3i.
(b) A template for tracking filter and filter cartridge replacement dates and the results of water sampling and testing conducted under section 3i.
(c) Guidance documents on all of the following:
(i) Factors that a child care center should consider when selecting filtered bottle-filling stations, filtered faucets, and filters.
(ii) How to shut off or render permanently inoperable a water outlet identified under section 3i(1)(c).
(iii) How to flush a building’s cold water plumbing before installing new filtered bottle-filling stations and filtered faucets.
(iv) Common filtered bottle-filling station or filtered faucet installation and operation errors and how to avoid them.
(2) The department of licensing and regulatory affairs shall provide training for child care center staff on filter cartridge use, installation, and maintenance and water sampling protocol. Training under this subsection may be provided as a webinar or incorporated into existing training programs. Within 2 years after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, and every 5 years thereafter, all child care center staff responsible for providing or overseeing children’s access to drinking water shall participate in training provided by the department of licensing and regulatory affairs under this subsection.
(3) The department of licensing and regulatory affairs shall provide and make available the guidance documents required under subsection (1)(c) not later than 6 months after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section. Before the department provides the guidance documents, the department shall issue the guidance documents as proposed guidance documents on its website and allow for a 30-day public comment period.