(1) The interest and earnings of the fund shall be expended by the department to monitor the effectiveness of response activity and to provide necessary long-term maintenance only at those landfills that are sites of polybrominated biphenyls contamination where the department has undertaken response activity through the use of funds appropriated by the state from a judicially approved settlement.
  (2) The corpus of the fund shall be maintained by the state treasurer in a manner that will provide for future disbursements to the department to ensure that the sites described in subsection (1) are properly monitored and maintained for as long as considered necessary by the department to assure the protection of the public health, safety, welfare, and the environment.

Terms Used In Michigan Laws 324.11303

  • Department: means the director of the department of natural resources or his or her designee to whom the director delegates a power or duty by written instrument. See Michigan Laws 324.301
  • Fund: means the landfill maintenance trust fund created in section 11302 . See Michigan Laws 324.11301
  • Response activity: means response activity as defined in part 201. See Michigan Laws 324.11301
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
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