Order Michigan Supreme Court
Lansing, Michigan
March 23, 2011 Robert P. Young, Jr.,
Chief Justice
141810 Michael F. Cavanagh
Marilyn Kelly
Stephen J. Markman
Diane M. Hathaway
Mary Beth Kelly
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL Brian K. Zahra,
QUALITY and DIRECTOR OF THE Justices
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL
QUALITY,
Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v SC: 141810
COA: 289724
Ingham CC: 07-000970-CE
TOWNSHIP OF WORTH,
Defendant-Appellee.
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On order of the Court, the application for leave to appeal the August 17, 2010
judgment of the Court of Appeals is considered, and it is GRANTED, limited to the issue
whether the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, MCL 324.101, et seq.,
empowers the Department of Environmental Quality to seek, and the circuit court to
grant, an order effectively requiring a township to install a sanitary sewer system when a
widespread failure of private septic systems results in contamination of lake waters.
The Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan is invited to file a
brief amicus curiae. Other persons or groups interested in the determination of the issues
presented in this case may move the Court for permission to file briefs amicus curiae.
I, Corbin R. Davis, Clerk of the Michigan Supreme Court, certify that the
foregoing is a true and complete copy of the order entered at the direction of the Court.
March 23, 2011 _________________________________________
p0316 Clerk