HOUSE BILL No. 4798


     June 17, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Brater, Bogardus, Martinez, Woodward, Schauer,
Gieleghem, Minore, Jacobs, DeHart, Vaughn, Prusi, Kowall, Baird, Hale, Brewer, Stallworth,
Scott, Clark, Callahan, Hardman, Basham, Kelly, Daniels, LaForge and Thomas and referred to
the Committee on Conservation and Outdoor Recreation.


        A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

   "Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

   by amending sections 11514 and 11545 (MCL 324.11514 and

   324.11545).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 11514.  (1) A person shall not knowingly dispose of,

 2    and an owner or operator of a landfill shall not knowingly permit

 3    the disposal of,  medical waste  ANY OF THE
             FOLLOWING in a

 4    landfill:

 5         (A) MEDICAL WASTE, unless that medical waste has been decon-

 6    taminated or is not required to be decontaminated but is packaged

 7    in the manner required under part 138 of the public health code,

 8     Act No. 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, being sections
             333.13801

 9     to 333.13831 of the Michigan Compiled Laws  1978 PA
                       368, MCL

10    333.13801 TO 333.13831.


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 1         (B) THE FOLLOWING BATTERIES:

 2         (i) ALKALINE MANGANESE BATTERIES, LEAD ACID BATTERIES,
             MER-

 3    CURIC OXIDE BATTERIES, NICKEL CADMIUM BATTERIES, OR ZINC CARBON

 4    BATTERIES, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 17101.

 5         (ii) LITHIUM BATTERIES.

 6         (iii) SILVER OXIDE CELL BATTERIES.

 7         (iv) ZINC-AIR BATTERIES.

 8         (C) FLUORESCENT LIGHTBULBS.

 9         (2) AS USED IN THIS SECTION:

10         (A) "LITHIUM BATTERIES" MEANS SOLID-STATE BATTERIES WITH A

11    LITHIUM ANODE, AN IODINE-POLYVINYL PYRIDINE CATHODE, AND AN ELEC-

12    TROLYTE CONSISTING OF A LAYER OF LITHIUM IODIDE.

13         (B) "SILVER OXIDE CELL BATTERIES" MEANS BATTERIES WITH A

14    PRIMARY CELL IN WHICH DEPOLARIZATION IS ACCOMPLISHED BY AN OXIDE

15    OF SILVER.

16         (C) "ZINC-AIR BATTERIES" MEANS BATTERIES CONTAINING A

17    CARBON-BASED GAS DIFFUSION ELECTRODE AS THE CATHODE, A ZINC

18    ANODE, AND AN ALKALINE ELECTROLYTE.

19         Sec. 11545.  (1)  Beginning June 21, 1993, 
             THE OWNER OR

20    OPERATOR OF a municipal solid waste incinerator shall not

21    KNOWINGLY incinerate  used  ANY OF THE FOLLOWING IN
             A MUNICIPAL

22    SOLID WASTE INCINERATOR:

23         (A) THE FOLLOWING BATTERIES:

24         (i) ALKALINE MANGANESE BATTERIES, LEAD ACID BATTERIES,
             MER-

25    CURIC OXIDE BATTERIES, NICKEL CADMIUM BATTERIES, OR ZINC CARBON

26    BATTERIES, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 17101.





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 1         (ii) LITHIUM BATTERIES, SILVER OXIDE BATTERIES, AND
             ZINC-AIR

 2    BATTERIES AS DEFINED IN SECTION 11514.

 3         (B) FLUORESCENT LIGHTBULBS.

 4         (C) USED oil.

 5         (2) As used in this section, "used oil"  has the
             meaning

 6     ascribed to this term in part 167  MEANS THAT TERM
                       AS IT IS

 7    DEFINED IN SECTION 16701.










































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