Section 324.21301a - Purpose and applicability of part.
NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 451 of 1994
324.21301a Purpose and applicability of part.
Sec. 21301a.
(1) This part is intended to provide remedies for sites posing a threat to the public health, safety, or welfare, or to the environment, regardless of whether the release or threat of release of a regulated substance occurred before or after January 19, 1989, the effective date of the former leaking underground storage tank act, Act No. 478 of the Public Acts of 1988, and for this purpose, this part shall be given retroactive application. However, criminal penalties provided in the amendatory act that added this section only apply to violations of this part that occur after April 13, 1995.
(2) The changes in liability that are provided for in the amendatory act that added this subsection shall be given retroactive application.
History: Add. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995 ;-- Am. 1996, Act 116, Imd. Eff. Mar. 6, 1996
Popular Name: Act 451
Popular Name: NREPA