GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 978

Short Title:  Landfill Buffer Zones.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Loflin; and Privette.
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Referred to:  Infrastructure.
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March 31, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO CREATE BUFFER ZONES NEAR LANDFILLS IN LARGE COUNTIES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 130A-295.1(b), which expired June 30, 1987, as provided by Section 210 of Chapter 757, Session Laws of 1987, is reenacted and reads as rewritten:
"(b)	The Department of Human Resources may not issue a permit for a sanitary landfill, as defined in G.S. 130A-290(16), to or for a county with a population of four hundred thousand or more, or to or for any incorporated city, town, or village in that county, if the landfill is to be located:
(1)	Within any other county, without the approval of the board of county commissioners of the county where the landfill is to be located; or
(2)	Within one mile of any other county, without the approval of the board of county commissioners of the county which the landfill is to be located within one mile of, provided that if the landfill is to be within one mile of two other counties, then the boards of commissioners of both those counties must approve."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.