GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 370

Short Title:  Funds to Stop Straight Piping.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Cansler, Walend, Sherrill (Primary Sponsors); and Thompson.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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March 9, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO ELIMINATE STRAIGHT PIPING.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources the sum of two million one hundred thousand dollars ($2,100,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of two million one hundred thousand dollars ($2,100,000) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year to do the following:
(1)	To provide grants to counties within the Year of the Mountains study area to fund programs to eliminate the practice of straight piping throughout Western North Carolina.
(2)	To establish county revolving loan programs to provide low interest loans for site repair.
(3)	To fund additional staff positions in the Asheville office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
(4)	To extend for an additional two years the amnesty program to eliminate straight piping.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.