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Michigan agency warns hazardous-waste program faces shortfall without fee changes
Summary
Officials from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) told a House appropriations subcommittee that declines in fee and federal grant revenue threaten the state's federally delegated hazardous-waste regulatory program and that a proposed user-fee increase would fund more inspections and staff.
Tracy Cascametti, acting director of the Materials Management Division at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Environment, Great Lakes and Energy on Oct. 11 that the division's hazardous-waste program is supported roughly half by generator and disposal fees and roughly half by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant.
Cascametti said the division's hazardous-waste program helps regulate more than 20,000 facilities that generate hazardous waste and licenses 14 active treatment, storage and disposal facilities in Michigan. "Materials Management Division is 154 full time employees," she said, describing the staff who inspect facilities, review…
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