Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules
611 W. Ottawa Street
Lansing, MI 48909
Phone: 517-335-8658 Fax: 517-335-9512
AGENCY REPORT TO THE
JOINT COMMITEE ON ADMNINISTRATIVE RULES (JCAR)
1. Agency Information
Agency name:
Health and Human Services
Division/Bureau/Office:
Environmental Health/Epidemiology and Population Health
Name of person completing this form:
Mary Brennan
Phone number of person completing this form:
517-284-4850
E-mail of person completing this form:
Name of Department Regulatory Affairs Officer reviewing this Form:
Mary Brennan
2. Rule Set Information
MOAHR assigned rule set number:
2019-55 HS
Title of proposed rule set:
Blood Lead Analysis Reporting
3. Purpose for the proposed rules and background:
This request is to make amendments to the Blood Lead Analysis Reporting rules. Minor corrections
are needed to update the Department and Division names and minor grammatical and formatting
corrections. One change is deleting the requirement that information about whether the address is for
a residence that is owned or rented. This is because laboratories never have this information and
cannot realistically be expected to obtain it. Another change is to reflect current practice and
upgraded technology for receipt of laboratory results with decimal points, rather than rounding to
integers, and to specify how laboratories should report results less than their limit of detection.
Another change is the deletion of specific definitions of "ethnicity" and “race." This is so that if
standards change in the future, laboratories can be requested to change the categories. Revised
terminology here is consistent with terminology in the rules for Reporting of Communicable
Diseases, Mich Admin Code R 325.171-325.199.
4. Summary of proposed rules:
MCL 24.242 and 24.245
