A complete list of all programs within the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE)
Community involvement and public participation are an essential part of EGLE’s mission, vision, and values.
SARA Title III establishes requirements regarding emergency planning and "Community Right-to-Know" reporting on hazardous and toxic chemicals for federal, state, local, and tribal governments, as well as regulated facilities.
Resources and information on utilizing RRD's data exchange and the Inventory of Facilities.
An interactive map displaying contaminated sites throughout Michigan regulated under Parts 213, 201, and 211.
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy’s (EGLE) Water Well Viewer (WWV), is an interactive mapping system that displays water wells along with other information, such as wellhead protection areas, underground storage tanks, and sites of environmental contamination. Water well locations have been identified by address matching, the use of global positioning systems (GPS), and by legal descriptions.
This system allows water well drilling and pump installation contractors to submit water well records.
EGLE's interactive calendar is designed to provide timely information on decisions before the Director, proposed settlements of contested cases, administrative rules promulgation, public hearings, meetings and comment deadlines, and environmental conferences, workshops and training programs.
Anyone wishing to formally serve legal documents upon the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), or its officers or employees, may do so by the following methods.
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Risk-based corrective action (RBCA) is a generic term for corrective action strategies that categorize sites according to risk and move all sites toward completion using appropriate levels of action and oversight. The ASTM standard is a good example of a framework for implementing a RBCA strategy. With this process, regulators can make sound, quick, consistent management decisions for a variety of sites using a three-tiered approach to data collection and site review contained in ASTM's E1739 standard guide for "Risk-Based Corrective Action applied at Petroleum Release Sites."
RBCA is not a substitute for corrective action, but a tool for determining the amount and urgency of action necessary. RBCA should never be used solely to justify inaction at a site or to save money.
It is important to note that the goal of all tiers is to achieve similar levels of protection. The difference is that, in moving to higher tiers, more efficient and cost-effective corrective action results because the conservative assumptions of earlier tiers are replaced with more realistic site-specific assumptions. Additional site assessment data may be required as sites move to higher tiers.
Tier 1 consists of a qualitative risk-assessment based on general site assessment information.
This data would need to identify obvious environmental impacts (if any), potentially affected sensitive receptors (schools, homes, water bodies, etc.), and significant exposure pathways (drinking water wells, recreational use of streams, vapor transport, etc.).
When gathered for a number of sites, this information is typically sufficient to help categorize sites and determine acceptable time frames for corrective action (immediacy of response), if necessary.
Tier 2 sees more site-specific data utilized to determine the appropriate risk-based actions.
Here, the reasonable maximum site-specific impact is evaluated through the use of site-specific characterization and monitoring data, conservative projections of expected levels of contaminates after treatment and potential plume migration, and reasonable maximum exposure scenarios.
This information is used to set conservative corrective action objectives that are protective of human health and the environment.
Tier 3 focuses completely on the site-specific conditions.
More sophisticated mathematical descriptions of fate and transport phenomena are used and descriptions of the range of possible exposures/risks are generated. At this level of complexity, site specific risk assessment models may be developed.
Due to the costs involved, this analysis is suited to only large sites.
