Introduced
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To authorize annual groundwater discharge permit fees from facilities that discharge wastewater onto the ground or into groundwater. The fees would be set by the Department of Environmental Quality at a rate high enough to cover the cost of its groundwater discharge permit program, which the department says costs some $3.6 million. This bill is one of many authorizing fee increases totaling some $125.5 million which Gov. Jennifer Granholm is proposing to close a gap between state spending and expected revenue in the Fiscal Year 2003-2004 budget.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
