GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	2 

SENATE BILL 58
Second Edition Engrossed 2/28/89

Short Title:  Solid Waste Clearinghouse.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Hunt of Moore; and Speed.
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Referred to:  Environment and Natural Resources.
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January 26, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT THAT DESIGNATES THE SOLID WASTE BRANCH IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES TO SERVE AS THE CENTRAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR INFORMATION REGARDING SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 130A-291(a) reads as rewritten:
"§ 130A-291. Solid Waste Unit in Department of Human Resources.
(a)	For the purpose of promoting and preserving an environment that is conducive to public health and welfare, and preventing the creation of nuisances and the depletion of our natural resources, the Department of Human Resources shall maintain an appropriate administrative unit to promote sanitary processing, treatment, disposal, and statewide management of solid waste and the greatest possible recycling and recovery of resources, and the Department shall employ and retain such qualified personnel as may be necessary to effect such purposes. This administrative unit shall be designated to serve as the central clearinghouse for information regarding solid waste management.  From funds appropriated in the continuation budget for this administrative unit, this clearinghouse shall maintain information regarding solid waste research and planning, solid waste management practices, markets for recyclable materials, and intergovernmental cooperation.  It is the purpose and intent of the State to be and remain cognizant not only of its responsibility to authorize and establish the statewide solid waste management program, but also of its responsibility to monitor and supervise, through the Department of Human Resources, the activities and operations of units of local government implementing a permitted solid waste management facility serving a specified geographic area in accordance with a solid waste management plan."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.