Michigan Laws 380.1909 – Compliance with act; departmental duties; guidance documents
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 380.1909
- Department: means the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy or its authorized agent or representative. See Michigan Laws 380.1903
- Filtered faucet: means a faucet that at the point of use includes a filter that is certified to meet NSF/ANSI standard 53 for lead reduction and NSF/ANSI standard 42 for particulate removal. See Michigan Laws 380.1903
- Plan: means a drinking water management plan created under section 5. See Michigan Laws 380.1903
- School: means a public school or nonpublic school as those terms are defined in section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 380.1903
- station: means an apparatus that meets all of the following requirements:
(i) Is connected to customer site piping. See Michigan Laws 380.1903
(1) The department shall assist each school in maintaining compliance with this act. Within 6 months after the effective date of this act, the department shall do all of the following:
(a) Provide a template for the plan.
(b) Make available annual training for school staff and school officials regarding the sampling and testing protocol, reporting process for test results, and other activities relevant to compliance with this act.
(c) Provide guidance on all of the following:
(i) Factors that a school should consider when selecting filtered bottle-filling stations, filtered faucets, and filter cartridges.
(ii) How to shut off or render permanently inoperable a water outlet under section 7(1)(b).
(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 shall provide and make available the guidance documents required under subsection (1)(c) not later than 6 months after the effective date of this act. 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.