As we reported last summer, a package of bills are being reviewed by the State Legislature that will impact all parties addressing Leaking Underground Storage Tanks (“LUST”). On January 24, 2012, the Michigan Senate passed a bill to amend Michigan’s Part 213 by revising procedures for the cleanup and management of environmental contamination at LUST sites. Significant points of the bills: (1)     A requirement that LUST be remediated pursuant to Standard Guide for Risk Based Corrective Action Applied at the Petroleum Release Sites (“RBCA”) which were developed by ASTM.  The MDEQ would not develop its own classification system. The MDEQ is prohibited from implementing additional rules for Part 213 of the … [Read more...]