GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 850
SENATE BILL 1406

AN ACT TO DELAY THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF CHAPTER 372 OF THE 1989 SESSION LAWS RELATING TO THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT OPERATORS CERTIFICATION COMMISSION, TO PROVIDE FOR THE STUDY OF THE ORGANIZATION, FUNCTIONS, POWERS, AND DUTIES OF THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT OPERATORS CERTIFICATION COMMISSION BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW COMMISSION, AND TO PROVIDE FOR A STUDY BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW COMMISSION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF LEVYING A TAX ON THE EMISSION OF AIR CONTAMINANTS AND ON THE DISCHARGE OF WASTE FROM POINT SOURCES TO THE SURFACE WATERS OF THE STATE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 12 of Chapter 372 of the 1989 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 12.  This act shall become effective 1 September 1991, except that authorization of the Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators Certification Commission to adopt rules necessary to implement this act is effective upon ratification.  Rules adopted by the Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators Certification Commission shall become effective 1 September 1991."
Sec. 2.  The Environmental Review Commission shall study the organization, functions, powers, and duties of the Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators Certification Commission and shall report its findings and recommendations to the 1991 General Assembly.
Sec. 3.  The Environmental Review Commission shall study the feasibility of levying a tax on the emission of air contaminants and on the discharge of waste from point sources to the surface waters of the State.  The Environmental Review Commission may consider the provisions of 1989 Senate Bills 1251 and 1252 in determining the nature and scope of the study.  The foregoing reference to those bills shall not be deemed to have incorporated any of the substantive provisions of those bills into this act.  The Environmental Review Commission shall report its findings and recommendations, if any, to the 1991 Session of the General Assembly.
Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective 30 June 1990.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of July, 1990.