Introduced
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To require the Department of Environmental Quality to determine what types of cleanup are needed for dioxin contamination in the Midland area on the basis of a study that measures actual blood samples from a random sample of the population in the area. (The University of Michigan is conducting such a study.) Note: The DEQ has proposed testing the soil on some 21,000 properties and 11,000 homes in the Midland and Saginaw area for the presence of dioxin, using a 90 parts per trillion standard that is reportedly 10 times more stringent than certain federal environmental standards. The presence of more than this amount would require that the soil be removed from a particular property. The bill also prohibits DEQ from entering a residential homestead to investigate this kind of contamination without permission from the owner.
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs
