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Lawmakers advance bills to create statewide septic code, risk-based inspections and registry
Summary
The House Natural Resources committee advanced House Bills 4479 and 4480 to establish an on-site wastewater (septic) code, a stakeholder technical advisory committee and an EGLE-maintained registry; sponsors said a hybrid time-of-sale and risk-based inspection framework and phased timetable will address failing systems and protect Michigan waters.
Representative Skaggs introduced legislation to create a statewide on-site wastewater treatment code, saying Michigan is currently the only state without a uniform septic code and that the bills would protect public health and freshwater resources. "We all know that Michiganders love water," Rep Skaggs said, noting estimates of hundreds of thousands of failing systems and beach closures attributed to contamination.
The package (House Bills 4479 and 4480) would add an on-site wastewater system code to the public health code, establish a technical advisory committee of stakeholders to advise EGLE, and require an online database tracking septic system locations and inspection histories to be maintained by local…
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