Michigan Laws 324.8807 – Clean water fund
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 324.8807
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.8801
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Fund: means the clean water fund created in section 8807. See Michigan Laws 324.8801
- MAEAP: means the Michigan agriculture environmental assurance program as that term is defined in part 87. See Michigan Laws 324.8801
- Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 324.301
(1) The clean water fund is created within the state treasury.
(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments.
(3) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the department, in consultation with the department of agriculture and rural development, shall expend money in the fund, upon appropriation, for any of the following:
(a) To implement the programs described in the department’s document entitled “A Strategic Environmental Quality Monitoring Program for Michigan’s Surface Waters”, dated January 1997. In implementing these programs, the department may contract with any person.
(b) Not more than $100,000.00 of the total annual appropriations from the fund to monitor and benchmark the effectiveness of conservation practices and MAEAP standards in cooperation with participating farmers.
(c) Promotion of MAEAP and activities to encourage more MAEAP-verified farms.
(d) Water pollution control activities.
(e) Wellhead protection activities.
(f) Storm water treatment projects and activities.
(5) Money in the fund shall not be expended for combined sewer overflow corrections.
(6) Money in the fund shall not be expended until rules are promulgated under section 8808.