Beneficial Use Provisions

Contact: email: Jeff Spencer 517-281-4411

Beneficial use recycles waste materials like paper pulp, cement kiln dust and foundry sand for use in industrial settings. Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law several amendments affecting the original beneficial reuse legislation, Part 115 of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act of 1994, to expand the allowable uses of the recycled materials. Those changes went into effect Sept. 16.

Under the new law, the land application of certain materials is overseen the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development as fertilizers or soil conditioners under Part 85, Fertilizers, of NREPA or as liming materials under  PA 162 of 1955.  These uses are defined as “beneficial use 3.”  For more information on beneficial use 3, please go to the following link: www.michigan.gov/mda-fertilizer.

Resources:

• PA 180 of 2014 (Amends PA 162 of 1955)

• PA 179 of 2014 (Amends Part 201)

• PA 178 of 2014 (Amends Part 115, 31, 85, and 201)

• Part 115 Statute

• Frequently asked questions

• The new provisions refer to criteria developed under Part 201, Environmental Remediation, of the NREPA. (Inert criteria)
  • Part 201 table 1 (leachate criteria)
  • Part 201 table 2 (totals criteria)

• Part 115 Rules

• Beneficial Use Matrix

Beneficial Use Conditions:

• Beneficial Use 1 Conditions

• Beneficial Use 2 Conditions

• Beneficial Use 3 Conditions

  • MDARD PowerPoint on Land Application

• Beneficial Use 4 Conditions

• Beneficial Use 5 Conditions

Education:

“Beneficial Use Statute" – Industry Training (February 12, 2015) – webinar recording

Implementing the Beneficial Use Statute - Industry (February 12, 2015) – Power Point