SOM MPART Executive Director Steve Sliver to retire after 34 years of state service FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) today announced that Michigan PFAS Action Response Team (MPART) executive director Steve Sliver will retire after 34 years of service to the State of Michigan. Sliver has been EGLE’s senior representative on MPART since April 2018 and was named executive director in 2019 when Gov. Whitmer established MPART as a permanent advisory body within EGLE under Executive Order 2019-3. Under Sliver’s leadership, MPART has been widely recognized as a national leader in the response to PFAS contamination in drinking water. Notable accomplishments of the multi-agency taskforce include the nation’s first statewide testing of public water supplies and schools for PFAS, the establishment of some of the nation’s most comprehensive PFAS in drinking water standards and the country’s largest collection and disposal program for PFAS-containing firefighting foam.