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P. 1Michigan Department of Environmental Quality - Part 201 - Water QualityMichigan Department of Environmental Quality - Part 201 - Water QualityRatings: (0)|Views: 942|Likes: 1Published by lansingonline8587More info:Categories:Types, Government & Politics, Public NoticesPublished by: lansingonline8587 on May 03, 2010Copyright:Attribution Non-commercialAvailability:Read on Scribd mobile: iPhone, iPad and Android.download as PDF, TXT or read online from ScribdFlag for inappropriate content|Add to collectionSee moreSee lesshttps://www.scribd.com/doc/30861331/Michigan-Department-of-Environmental-Quality-Part-201-Water-Quality05/03/2010pdftextoriginal MDEQ Re-Proposes Draft Part 201 Rules
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has issued substantially-revised draft rules under Part 201 (Environmental Remediation) of the Natural Resources andEnvironmental Protection Act (NREPA). The revisions follow a public hearing and comment period on a previous revision of these Part 201 rules that was summarized in previous MECUeditions. The revised draft Part 201 rules discussed in this article are available on the Office of Regulatory Reform’s worldwide web site at http://www.state.mi.us/orr/, but have not yet beenformally public noticed in the Michigan Register or on MDEQ’s web site.
Cleanup Criteria Now Listed In The Rules
MDEQ personnel have stated that the revised draft Part 201 rules are intended to addressmany of the public comments received by MDEQ on the prior proposed rules. According toMDEQ personnel, the revised draft rules are intended to address four general comments: (1) the proposed rules are too complex; (2) the proposed rules for determining compliance with thegroundwater surface water interface (where groundwater “vents” to surface water) cleanupcriteria, especially with respect to storm sewers, were too prescriptive; (3) the proposed rules provided for insufficient MDEQ involvement in approval of remedial action plans; and (4) the proposed rules did not provide for sufficient notice to the public under various circumstances.One particularly notable revision to the draft Part 201 rules is the wholesale inclusion inthe rules of the cleanup criteria tables that are currently published by MDEQ as Attachment A toMDEQ Environmental Response Division Operational Memorandum (“Op. Memo”) No. 18.This approach seems to be directed at addressing arguments that the cleanup criteria published inOp. Memo No. 18 constituted “unpromulgated rules,” that is, the cleanup criteria should have been promulgated in accordance with the Michigan Administrative Procedures Act (APA) and
because they were not, they are merely guidelines that may not be enforced against third parties.Of course, formally promulgating the cleanup criteria as administrative rules will mean thatMDEQ generally would have to propose and promulgate new rules in order to revise a cleanupcriterion or implement a new one – a slower and more burdensome process than the approach of issuing Op. Memos that has been followed by MDEQ in the past.In order to address this perceived problem, draft Rule 299.5706a sets forth procedures for MDEQ to develop cleanup criteria for a substance that is not already listed in the cleanup criteriatables and to revise the cleanup criteria for certain substances that are already listed, but do nothave one or more cleanup criteria listed. Draft Rule 299.5706a(10) provides that MDEQ maydetermine, using the best available information, whether a substance not listed in the cleanupcriteria tables in the rules is a hazardous substance and develop generic or site-specific cleanupcriteria for that substance. For a substance that is already listed in the cleanup criteria tables, butis listed as having insufficient information to develop a cleanup criterion, draft Rule299.5706a(11) provides that MDEQ shall develop a cleanup criterion for such a substance if itobtains sufficient information to do so. Further, if a new state drinking water standard isestablished or an existing standard is changed after the effective date of the rules, draft Rule299.5706a(12) provides that the new state drinking water standard shall become a genericresidential cleanup criterion under the rules. If a generic cleanup criterion is developed under either of draft subrules (10) or (11), MDEQ will announce the new criterion on its Internet website and in the MDEQ calendar or by such other means that will effectively notify interested persons. The draft rules provide that the new criterion shall take effect when so published/announced and shall remain in effect until MDEQ promulgates the revised criteria
under the APA. Notably, the provisions discussed above do not provide for revision of analready-promulgated cleanup criterion.
New “Hazardous Substances”
As they did in Op. Memo format, the cleanup criteria tables in the draft rules continue tolist cleanup criteria for a number of substances and water quality characteristics that are notlisted as a “hazardous substance” under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response,Compensation, and Liability Act, defined as “hazardous waste” under Part 111 (HazardousWaste Management) of NREPA, or “petroleum” as described under Part 213 (LeakingUnderground Storage Tanks) of NREPA, all of which are included within the definition of “hazardous substance” under Part 201. Part 201 does, however, provide for other substances to be designated as a “hazardous substance” if MDEQ “demonstrates on a case by case basis, [thatsubstance] poses an unacceptable risk to the public health, safety, or welfare, or the environment,considering the fate of the material, dose-response, toxicity, or adverse impact on naturalresources.” Examples of some such new “hazardous substances” include the “water qualitycharacteristics” of dissolved oxygen, pH, and total dissolved solids. Other examples includesodium and chloride, such as would result from salt dissolving in water (notably, salt itself is notlisted), and iron, sulfate, nitrate, and nitrite.
“Complete” Response Activities
MDEQ has added a new defined term, “complete,” to the draft rules with respect toresponse activities. The effect of this new term is in many respects similar to that of a covenantnot to sue for “completed” response activities under an administrative or judicial consentagreement – offering some assurance of finality with respect to a completed response activity.“Complete” is defined under the draft Part 201 rules as follows:
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