2007 Senate Bill 560

Expand the role of the small business pollution law ombudsman

Introduced in the Senate

May 31, 2007

Introduced by Sen. Michelle McManus (R-35)

To expand the role of the “small business clean water ombudsman,” to include monitoring of all environmental enforcement activities of the n the Department of Environmental Quality, not just clean air ones, and explicitly give it the role of investigating complaints from businesses about the department’s enforcement activities. The office was formerly under the Department of Commerce, and the bill establishes that it is within the Michigan Strategic Fund.

Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs