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House committee adopts H-3 substitute for HB 4427 narrowing 'brown alert' trigger; reports bill out of committee
Summary
The Michigan House Committee on Natural Resources and Tourism voted unanimously to adopt an H‑3 substitute to House Bill 4427, limiting issuance of a "brown alert" for dangerous E. coli to events caused by sewage discharges from combined or sanitary sewer overflows, and then voted to report the bill to the full House.
The Michigan House Committee on Natural Resources and Tourism adopted an H‑3 substitute to House Bill 4427 and voted to report the bill to the full House on a unanimous voice/role call during the committee's meeting.
The substitute, as read into the record by Representative Saint Germain, narrows when a "brown alert" may be issued: only when dangerous levels of E. coli are detected as a result of a discharge from a combined sewage overflow or a sanitary sewer overflow. The substitute also defines "dangerous levels of E. coli" as the level considered dangerous for swimming, or 300 E. coli per 100 milliliters.
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