GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 2009

Short Title:  Water Resources Development Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Payne; and Bowman.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 11, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO PROVIDE MATCHING STATE FUNDS FOR WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, Water Resources Division, the sum of $7,036,000 for the 1989-90 fiscal year and the sum of $3,500,000 for the 1990-91 fiscal year to provide matching State funds for U.S. Corps of Engineers, State, or local water resources development projects that satisfy the criteria under Part 8 of Article 21 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes.  The following projects are eligible for State matching funds under this section:
Fort Fisher Shoreline Protection;
Wilmington Harbor Maintenance Dredging;
Northeast Cape Fear River Navigation Improvement;
Wanchese Channel Maintenance Dredging;
Wilmington Harbor Passing Lane Study;
Wrightsville Beach Protection;
Beaufort Harbor Maintenance Dredging;
Aquatic Weed Control;
Cape Fear River Above Wilmington Maintenance Dredging;
Lower Creek (City of Lenoir) Flood Control;
State-Local Water Resources Development Project Grants;
Cape Lookout Ferry Channel Maintenance;
Corps of Engineers Feasibility Studies;
Wilmington Harbor Turns and Bends Study;
Wilmington Harbor Turning Basin Study;
Great Coharie Creek (Sampson County) Flood Control;
Neuse River (Oriental) Bank Protection.
Funds appropriated under this section may be used to match non-State funds pursuant to federal and State laws or regulations at the highest percentage of non-State dollars to State dollars available under a particular project as set by the authorizing authority for that project. 
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, Soil and Water Conservation Division, the sum of $1,099,000 for the 1989-90 fiscal year and the sum of $1,178,000 for the 1990-91 fiscal year to provide matching State funds for grants for soil conservation service projects, including small watershed projects that satisfy the criteria adopted by the Soil and Water Conservation Commission for such projects.  The following projects are eligible for State matching funds under this section:
Crabtree Creek (Wake County)
Limestone Creek (Duplin County)
Little Contentnea Creek (Pitt County)
Muddy Creek (Duplin County)
Stewarts Lovills Creek (Surry County)
Town Fork Creek (Stokes County).
Funds appropriated under this section may be used to match non-State funds pursuant to federal and State laws or regulations at the highest percentage of non-State dollars to State dollars available under a particular project as set by the authorizing authority for that project.
Sec. 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority the sum of $4,000,000 for the 1989-90 fiscal year and the sum of $3,500,000 for the 1990-91 fiscal year for acquisition of land for the Randleman Lake Project, provided this land is used for the reservoir, buffer areas surrounding the reservoir, access to the project, and water treatment and distribution facilities.  Funds appropriated by this section may also be used for the relocation of roads and utilities, for engineering services, and for construction of the Randleman dam and reservoir project.  Funds appropriated for the 1989-90 fiscal year shall not be paid to the Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority (i) unless the member governments of the Authority have met all contractual obligations required of them under their agreements with the Authority and each other pertaining to the Randleman Lake Project up to the time of payment of the funds, and (ii) the Authority has obtained from the Environmental Management Commission the certificates required of it under G.S. 153A-285 and G.S. 162A-7.  
Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.