Title 324, NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Sec. 5703. (1) The office of the small business clean air ombudsman is created within the department of commerce. The office shall exercise its powers and duties independently of any state department or entity. (2) The principal executive officer of the office is the small busine…

Sec. 5704. The office of the ombudsman is responsible for assessing and ensuring that the goals of the program are being met and in addition shall coordinate or do all of the following: (a) Conduct independent evaluations of all aspects of the program. (b) Review and provide comm…

Sec. 5705. The program is created in the department of commerce. The program shall develop adequate mechanisms for all of the following: (a) Developing, collecting, and coordinating information on compliance methods and technologies for small businesses. (b) Encouraging lawful co…

Sec. 5706. Upon request, the ombudsman shall be given access to all information, records, and documents in the possession of the commission and the department that the ombudsman considers necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of the office other than information described in …

Sec. 5707. Information obtained by the office or the program from small businesses that utilize their services shall be held in confidence by those employed by the office or the program to the extent authorized under the freedom of information act, Act No. 442 of the Public Acts …

Sec. 5708. (1) The small business clean air compliance advisory panel is created within the program. (2) The advisory panel shall be broadly representative of the regulated small business community and shall include women members and members who are minorities. The advisory panel…

Sec. 5901. As used in this part, "facility" means machinery, equipment, structures, or any part or accessories of machinery, equipment, or structures, installed or acquired for the primary purpose of controlling or disposing of air pollution that if released would render the air …

Sec. 5902. (1) An application for a pollution control tax exemption certificate shall be filed with the state tax commission in a manner and in a form as prescribed by the state tax commission. The application shall contain plans and specifications of the facility, including all …

Sec. 5903. If the department finds that the facility is designed and operated primarily for the control, capture, and removal of pollutants from the air, and is suitable, reasonably adequate, and meets the intent and purposes of part 55 and rules promulgated under that part, the …

Sec. 5904. (1) For the period subsequent to the effective date of the certificate and continuing as long as the certificate is in force, a facility covered by the certificate is exempt from real and personal property taxes imposed under the general property tax act, Act No. 206 o…

Sec. 5905. The state tax commission shall send an air pollution control tax exemption certificate, when issued, by certified mail to the applicant, and certified copies by certified mail to the assessor of the taxing unit in which any property to which the certificate relates is …

Sec. 5906. (1) The state tax commission, on notice by certified mail to the applicant and opportunity for a hearing, shall, on its own initiative or on complaint of the department, the department of treasury, or the assessor of the taxing unit in which any property to which the c…

Sec. 5907. A party aggrieved by the issuance, refusal to issue, revocation, or modification of a pollution control tax exemption certificate may appeal from the finding and order of the state tax commission in the manner and form and within the time provided by the administrative…

Sec. 5908. The state tax commission may adopt rules as it considers necessary for the administration of this part. These rules shall not abridge the authority of the department to determine whether or not air pollution control exists within the meaning of this part.

Sec. 60101. As used in this part: (a) "Governing institution" means the state university within which the Michigan geological survey is established or continued under section 60102. (b) "State geologist" means the chief of the office of oil, gas, and minerals, or a successor offi…

Sec. 60102. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Michigan geological survey is established within western Michigan university and shall continue as an entity within a governing institution. The governing institution shall do both of the following: (a) Oversee the operations of the …

Sec. 60104. The Michigan geological survey shall continue to make a thorough geological survey of this state, which may include a determination of the succession and arrangement, thickness, and position of all strata and rocks; their mineral character and contents and their econo…

Sec. 60105. The Michigan geological survey shall provide for the collection and conservation of cores, samples, and specimens for the illustration of every division of the geology and mineralogy of this state, to the extent that facilities and funds are available to do so.

Sec. 60106. The Michigan geological survey shall prepare and submit to the state geologist an annual report of progress and other reports, documents, and maps as necessary to fulfill its responsibilities.

Sec. 60107. All notes, memoranda, compilations, collections, specimens, diagrams, and illustrations that are made in the operation of the Michigan geological survey are the property of this state and shall be under the control of the governing institution.

Sec. 60108. The Michigan geological survey may receive money or other assets to implement this part from any of the following: (a) Funds appropriated by the legislature. (b) Federal, state, municipal, or private grants. (c) Any other source approved by the governing institution.

Sec. 60301. The department shall conduct a soil and economic survey of all lands in the state.

Sec. 60302. The soil and economic survey provided for in this part shall be conducted by counties; and the order in which the soil and economic survey is conducted shall be determined by the department. The purpose of the work is to procure and make available for public use infor…

Sec. 60303. Upon completion of the soil and economic survey in any county, the department shall cause a full and detailed report of the soil and economic survey to be made. The department shall cause as many copies of the report to be printed as the department determines are nece…

Sec. 60304. The report required under section 60303 to be made upon the soil and economic survey in each county, subject to this part, shall set forth such information and data as will fulfill the general purpose defined in section 60302. However, the report shall not state or re…

Sec. 60305. Payments shall be made out of the fund created by this part only on the warrant of the state treasurer. However, payments shall not be made until the department has approved the claim or account and has certified the correctness of the claim or account. At the request…

Sec. 60306. In implementing the work contemplated in this part, the department may cooperate with the various counties of the state, with development bureaus, with any department, officer, bureau, or institution established and maintained by the United States government, and with…

Sec. 60307. For the purposes of performing their respective duties under this part and carrying on the work of the soil and economic survey, the department and its employees may enter onto and be on private property. That property shall, however, not be injured or damaged in any …

Sec. 60308. Any portion of the annual appropriation provided for in this part that remains unexpended at the close of any fiscal year shall be carried forward into the next fiscal year, to the credit of the department, for the purposes provided under this part, and is subject to …

Sec. 60309. The department shall prepare and submit to each legislature a report covering the work of the preceding 2 years. The report shall indicate specifically the lands that have been surveyed, the general progress and condition of the work, the expenditures that have been m…

Sec. 60501. The department, on behalf of the state, may confer with the director of the United States geological survey or his or her representatives and accept the cooperation of the federal government with this state in making aerial photographs and necessary ground control sur…

Sec. 60502. The department may, on behalf of the state, contract with the United States government for the aerial photographing and mapping, scale of photographs and maps, determining the method, form, and execution of maps, and all other details of the work necessary to prepare …

Sec. 60503. The amounts authorized to be paid under this part shall first be certified to be correct by the department and shall be paid out of the state treasury upon warrant of the state treasurer.

Sec. 60701. As used in this part: (a) "Soil survey" means the identification and description of kinds of soil, the plotting of boundaries on aerial photographs between kinds of soils, and the description and evaluation of their importance and response under various uses and manag…

Sec. 60702. (1) The department of agriculture shall provide an inventory of the soil resources of the state by a 10-year program for the acceleration of the soil survey on nonfederal lands. Soil surveys will be made on a minimum of 3,000,000 acres over the 10 years following Dece…

Sec. 60703. The department of agriculture shall implement this part by employing, subject to civil service rules, and equipping soil scientists, within appropriations for that purpose, to make soil surveys through cooperative arrangements with the United States department of agri…

Sec. 60704. The department of agriculture shall make yearly budget requests and the legislature shall annually appropriate funds to implement this part.

Sec. 60901. As used in this part: (a) "Classification system" means a mechanism to identify the current use of land and any structures on the land. (b) "Data management system" means a mechanism which relies on a computer to manipulate, store, and retrieve information collected a…

Sec. 60902. (1) The department shall make or have made a project design study. The study shall determine the appropriate operational criteria, computer software and hardware, staffing, available information resources, data updating methodology, most economical inventory resources…

Sec. 60903. (1) The department shall create a technical assistance program designed to help municipalities and counties effectively use the inventory. The technical assistance program shall, when feasible, utilize the technical assistance programs of regional planning commissions…

Sec. 60904. (1) The land resource portion of the inventory shall be completed in a format that may be readily integrated into the data management system, and shall provide a base of information to analyze the existing and future productivity of the state's natural resources and p…

Sec. 60905. The current use portion of the inventory shall be completed using a consistent classification system that can be readily integrated into the data management system, and shall provide the base to analyze the existing use and cover in the state. The current use inventor…

Sec. 60906. (1) The current use portion of the inventory may be conducted by municipalities, counties, or regional planning commissions as provided in subsection (4). A municipality, county, or regional planning commission conducting a portion of the current use inventory shall c…

Sec. 60907. The state shall reimburse each municipality, county, or regional planning commission engaged in the preparation of the current use portion of the inventory for 75% of the expenditures certified by the department. Certification shall be based upon conformance to the fo…

Sec. 60908. (1) The land resource portion of the inventory shall be reviewed and updated when necessary, but not less than once every 10 years. (2) The current use portion of the inventory shall be reviewed and updated when necessary, but not less than once each 5 years.

Sec. 60909. The department may charge fees for generating products or rendering services based on the information in the inventory. The fees shall not exceed the costs to the department of generating the products or rendering the services. The amount of money expended by the depa…