Section 324.8801 - Definitions. - Michigan Statutes

NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 451 of 1994

324.8801 Definitions.

Sec. 8801.

As used in this part:

(a) “Department” means the department of environmental quality.

(b) “Director” means the director of the department.

(c) “Fund” means the clean water fund created in section 8807.

(d) “Grant” means a nonpoint source pollution prevention and control grant or a wellhead protection grant under this part.

(e) “Local unit of government” means a county, city, village, or township, or an agency of a county, city, village, or township; the office of a county drain commissioner; a soil conservation district established under part 93; a watershed council; a local health department as defined in section 1105 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.1105; or an authority or any other public body created by or pursuant to state law.

(f) “Nonpoint source pollution” means water pollution from diffuse sources, including runoff from precipitation or snowmelt contaminated through contact with pollutants in the soil or on other surfaces and either infiltrating into the groundwater or being discharged to surface waters, or runoff or wind causing erosion of soil into surface waters.

History: Add. 1998, Act 287, Eff. Dec. 1, 1998
Popular Name: Act 451
Popular Name: NREPA