History
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality was a spin off of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The DNR was created in 1921 as the Michigan Department of Conservation. In 1968, the name was changed to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
In 1995, The Department of Environmental Quality was created by Executive Order No. 1995-18, which transferred environmental regulatory programs from the Department of Natural Resources to it. Subsequent Executive Orders transferred additional regulatory programs formerly associated with other agencies, such as Low Level Radioactive Waste Authority from the Department of Commerce, the Above Ground Storage Tank Program and the inspection of dry cleaning establishments from the Department of State Police, the Michigan Environmental Science Board and the Environmental Administration Division from the Department of Management and Budget. A significant order in 1999 created the Water Quality Advisory Board.
In 2009, Governor Jennifer Granholm moved to merge the Department back into the Department of Natural Resources and the authority to appoint the reunited department's director instead of Natural Resources Commission. The State Senate has passed a resolution to stop the merger.
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