Michigan Laws 333.26214 – Local monitoring committee; establishment; purpose; powers and duties; disbandment; duration
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(1) Within 30 days of the designation by the authority of the candidate sites, the governing body of a municipality in which a candidate site is located shall establish a local monitoring committee to represent the interests of the citizens of the municipality in which the candidate site is located. Each governing body shall determine the size and membership of its local monitoring committee. The local monitoring committees shall assure the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare and the protection of the environment in the municipality in which the candidate site is located. Each of the local monitoring committees may do all of the following:
(a) Represent the interests of the municipality in which the candidate site is located in proceedings regarding the selection of the host site.
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 333.26214
- Authority: means the low-level radioactive waste authority established in section 3. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Candidate site: means a site designated by the authority as a possible host site pursuant to section 11. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Commissioner: means the head of the authority. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Department: means the department of public health. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Disposal: means the isolation of waste from the biosphere by emplacement in the disposal site or as otherwise authorized in section 13709(3) of part 137. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Disposal site: means a geographic location in this state upon which the disposal unit and any other structures and appurtenances are located, the property upon which any monitoring equipment is located, and the isolation distance from the disposal unit to adjacent property lines. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Host site: means the candidate site that is designated by the commissioner as the location for the disposal site in this state. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Host site community: means the municipality that is designated by the commissioner as the host site. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Institutional control: means the continued surveillance, monitoring, and care of the disposal site after site closure and stabilization to insure the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare, and the environment until the contents of the disposal site no longer have a radioactive content that is greater than the natural background radiation of the host site as determined during its site characterization. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Local monitoring committee: means a committee established pursuant to section 14 to represent a candidate site. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Municipality: means a city, village, township, or Indian tribe. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Operation: means the control, supervision, or implementation of the actual physical activities involved in the acceptance, storage, disposal, and monitoring of waste at the disposal site, the maintenance of the disposal site, and any other responsibility pertaining to the disposal unit and the disposal site. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Site characterization: means the site specific investigation of a candidate site undertaken pursuant to section 12. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
- Site closure and stabilization: means the actions taken at the disposal site during the time period after the closure of the disposal unit during which on-site low-level radioactive waste is disposed in accordance with part 137, equipment is dismantled, decontaminated, removed for reuse or disposed of, and radioactive residues are removed from, or properly isolated on, the disposal site in preparation for transfer of ownership of the disposal site to the federal government. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
(b) Independently review site characterization data.
(c) Prepare for the possible designation of the candidate site as the host site.
(d) Seek funding from the authority to fulfill the responsibilities of the local monitoring committee.
(e) Provide for independent technical assistance to fulfill the responsibilities of the local monitoring committee.
(f) Present recommendations to the authority and the review board established pursuant to section 13 regarding provisions and stipulations that would mitigate the concerns of the municipality that is represented by the local monitoring committee if it is selected as the host site.
(2) The local monitoring committees for the municipalities that are not selected as the host site community shall disband upon the designation by the commissioner of the host site community.
(3) The local monitoring committee of the host site shall continue in existence through the period of institutional control. The local monitoring committee for the host site community may do all of the following:
(a) Evaluate and submit comments to the department, department of natural resources, and the authority regarding the application for a construction and operating license submitted by the authority.
(b) Select a representative for the local monitoring committee or a technical advisor, or both, to inspect and monitor at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner the construction of the disposal site and the monitoring and operation of the completed disposal site, site closure and stabilization, postclosure operation and maintenance and institutional control, with due regard as determined by the authority to the safety of the representative of the committee and the technical advisor.
(c) Engage in any other activities that are mutually agreed upon between the local monitoring committee and the authority or the department, or both.
(d) Negotiate and enter arbitration with the authority as provided in section 16.