Michigan Administrative Code
Department - Environmental Quality
Water Resources Division
Public Bathing Beaches
Section R. 325.2101 - Definitions
Current through Vol. 24-04, March 15, 2024
Rule 1.
(1) "Act" means sections 12541 to 12546 of Act No. 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, as amended, being SS 333.12541 to 333.12546 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.
(2) "Bathing beach" means a beach or bathing area offered to the public for recreational bathing or swimming. It does not include a swimming pool as defined in section 12521 of Act No. 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, as amended, being S 333.12521 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.
(3) "Escherichia coli" or "E. coli" means a bacteria which is a member of the family enterobacteriaceae and which is the predominant facultative anaerobe in humans and warm-blooded animals. Therefore, it is an indicator of the presence of human or animal fecal material in water. The organism is identified by a variety of laboratory methods with definitive identifying characteristics described by Bergey's Manual of Bacteriology (Williams and Wilkins, 9th Edition, 1994).
(4) "Geometric mean" means the antilog of the summation of the logarithms of the values for the samples examined divided by the number of samples.
(5) "Health officer" means the administrative officer of a city, county, or district health department.
(6) "Sanitary or environmental survey" means and includes all of the following:
(7) "Standard methods" means the publication entitled Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 18th Edition - 1992, as published by the American public health association, the American water works association, and the water environment federation. This publication is adopted by reference in these rules and is on file and available for inspection in the Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health, Michigan Department of Public Health, 3423 North Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Lansing, Michigan. Copies are available from the American Public Health Association, 1015 Fifteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.
These rules were transmitted to the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules on October 24, 1995. The rules were filed with the Secretary of State on November 21, 1995, while under consideration by the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. Section 45(6) of Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, as amended, being S24.245(6) of the Michigan Compiled Laws, provides: "After receipt by the committee of the agency's letter of transmittal, the committee has 2 months in which to consider the rule. If the committee by a majority vote determines that added time is needed to consider proposed rules, the committee may extend the time it has to consider a particular proposed rule by 1 month to a total of not longer than 3 months ..."
