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DEQ Comments

Bill Creal, Chief Water Resources Division

Water Resources

• Protect and Monitor

– 4 Great Lakes – 3,288 miles of Great Lakes shoreline – 11,000 inland lakes – 77,000 river miles – 5.5 million acres of wetlands For swimming, fishing, drinking water and aquatic ecosystems.

Director Dan Wyant

• 3/14 Interview on “Greening of the Great Lakes”
• Defining this as “The Year of Water”
• Governor Snyder
• Co-Chair of the Great Lakes Governors
• November message on energy and the environment
• Water Strategy

– Water Quality, Water Use, Protection

• DEQ Goals
• Leaders in Environmental Stewardship
• Full Partners in Economic Development
• Excellent Customer Service

Budgets and Funding

• Federal Budget

– Sequester – FY14

• State Budget

– Current – FY14

New initiatives and legislation:

• Stormwater, Asset Management,

and Wastewater (SAW) Grants/Loans

• Dam Restoration/Removal Grants
• Harbor Dredging

Recreational Harbor Dredging Bills

SB 163 Natural resources; wetlands; permit exemptions for wetlands and inland lakes and streams; revise, and require more information from department justifying denial of any part 13 permits. SB 164 Appropriations; supplemental; funding for dredging of waterways. SB 214 Natural resources; funding; Michigan natural resources trust fund; modify allowable expenditures. SB 215 Watercraft; marinas; marina dredging loans; reestablish program. SB 218 Economic development; tax increment financing; sunset on water resource improvement tax increment finance authority; remove, and allow dredging. SB 229 Natural resources; funding; natural resources trust fund; clarify that money may be expended for dredging of harbors for use by recreational watercraft. SB 233 Natural resources; funding; natural resources trust fund; provide appropriations. Creates appropriation act. SB 243 Natural resources; funding; funds for dredging and breakwalls; establish. SB 252 Watercraft; marinas; marina dredging loan origination program; establish. Creates new act. SB 264 Natural resources; other; issuance of permits for dredging; modify procedure. HB 4106 Natural resources; funding; Michigan natural resources trust fund; dredging of Great Lakes harbors for use by recreational watercraft; clarify allowable use of funds. HB 4179 Economic development; tax increment financing; dredging of harbors; allow. HB 4197 Appropriations; supplemental; funding for dredging of waterways; provide for. HB 4328 Appropriations; other; executive recommendation; provide for omnibus bill. Creates appropriation act. HB 4398 Watercraft; marinas; dredging material from Great Lakes bottomlands determined to be largely sand; revise permit fee. HB 4400 Watercraft; marinas; dredging material from inland lakes and streams determined to be largely sand; revise fee. HB 4410 Watercraft; marinas; marina dredging loan origination program; establish. Creates new act.

Green Infrastructure Efforts and Initiatives

• LID Manual
• Detroit Permit Requirements
• NPS Implementation Grants
• GI Planning Grants

GI Planning Grants

• Detroit River Combined Sewer Overflow

Green Infrastructure Planning – SEMCOG

• Wayne County Storm Water Green

Infrastructure Planning - Wayne County

• Washtenaw County Green Infrastructure

Project – Huron River Watershed Council

Aquatic Invasive Species State Management Plan

• Goal I: Prevent new introductions of AIS into Michigan

waters.

• Goal II: Limit the spread of established populations of

AIS into uninfested waters of the state.

• Goal III: Develop an early detection and rapid response

program to address new AIS invasions.

• Goal IV: Manage and control AIS to lessen the harmful

ecological, economic, social and public health impacts resulting from infestation of AIS.

Aquatic Invasive Species Advisory Council

• Established by law in 2011
• Appointed members include State agencies,

tribes, local government, industries, environmental groups, university, etc.

• Objective- satisfy statutory requirements

– Ballast water – AIS State Management Plan – Organisms in trade – Phragmites management – Program funding

Water Use Council

• Called in response to Governor Rick Snyder's

November special message on Energy and the Environment.

• The group was selected to involve top water use

stakeholders throughout Michigan (Environmental, Conservation, Agriculture, Business, and Utilities)

• Continues the legacy of the 2003 and 2006 Water

Conservation Advisory Councils, which planned and implemented the state's award-winning water withdrawal assessment process

Enbridge Oil Spill

Questions?

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