Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.61604: List to be submitted to legislature; annual appropriation from fund for listed projects.

Sec. 61604.

By January 1 of each year, the supervisor shall prepare and submit to the legislature a list of the oil or gas wells that should be plugged and those at which response activities or site restoration should be performed with money in the fund. The list shall be compiled in order of priority. The list shall be accompanied by estimates of total project costs for the proposed plugging, response activity, site restoration, internal administration, and potential emergency contingencies. Additionally, the supervisor shall include with the list a statement of the criteria used in listing and assigning the priority of these proposed actions.

The legislature shall annually appropriate money from the fund for projects on the list prepared under subsection (1) and for sites where there exists an imminent threat to public health and safety. Except for sites where there exists an imminent threat to public health and safety, projects shall be funded in the order of their priority on the list.