GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

H	4 

HOUSE BILL 1223*
Committee Substitute Favorable 5/4/89
Environment & Natural Resources Senate Committee Substitute Adopted 7/6/90
Fourth Edition Engrossed 7/10/90

Short Title:  Add Time for Watershed Reclassification.	(Public)
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April 12, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL TIME FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATER SUPPLY WATERSHED CLASSIFICATIONS AND FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF EXISTING WATER SUPPLY WATERSHEDS AND TO DELAY THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SANITARY LANDFILLS FOR THE DISPOSAL OF NONHAZARDOUS SOLID WASTE IN WATER SUPPLY WATERSHEDS FOR WHICH A PETITION FOR RECLASSIFICATION IS PENDING UNTIL THE CLASSIFICATION OF SUCH WATERSHEDS IS COMPLETED.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Section 5 of Chapter 426 of the 1989 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 5.  (a)	The Environmental Management Commission shall adopt water supply watershed classifications and applicable management requirements as required by G.S. 143-214.5(b) no later than 1 July 1991.
(b)	The Environmental Management Commission shall publish the proposed classification of all existing water supply watersheds under the classifications adopted pursuant to G.S. 143-214.5(b) no later than 1 October 1991.  The Environmental Management Commission shall complete the classification of all existing water supply watersheds no later than 1 October 1992.
(c)	Every local government shall submit a local water supply management and protection ordinance to the Environmental Management Commission for approval by 1 July 1993."
Sec. 2.  This section shall apply to any new sanitary landfill for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste which is proposed to be located within the watershed of any of the surface waters of the State which are assigned water supply classifications (WS-I, WS-II, or WS-III) under rules adopted by the Environmental Management Commission and for which there is pending a petition for reclassification of such waters to a more protective classification.  The Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources shall not approve an application for a permit for any such new sanitary landfill until the Environmental Management Commission has adopted water supply watershed classifications and management requirements and has completed the classification of all existing water supply watersheds as required by Section 5 of Chapter 426 of the 1989 Session Laws.  This section shall not apply to any application for a permit for a sanitary landfill which was filed prior to 1 July 1990.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.