GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1069

Short Title:  No Facility Near Mental Hosp.	(Public)
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Sponsors: Representatives Green; and Church.
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Referred to:  Environment.
─────────────────────────────────────── 

April 22, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE SITING OF AN AUTHORIZED HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY OPERATED PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 130B OF THE GENERAL STATUTES WITHIN THIRTY-FIVE MILES OF A STATE PSYCHIATRIC OR MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 130B-11(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	In addition to any other site selection criteria adopted by the Commission, the following criteria shall apply to the selection of sites for hazardous waste treatment facilities:
(1) 	A site shall be accessible to the Interstate Highway System by a highway having not less than two travel lanes in each direction (four-lane highway).
(2) 	In evaluating potential sites, the Commission shall give preference to those sites which minimize the travel distance between the site and the Interstate Highway System.
(3) 	A site shall not be located in or on wetlands, existing State or national parks or forests, existing historical sites, and existing wildlife refuges.
(4) 	A site shall not be located in or on land on which a fish hatchery is located, Indian reservations, or federal military reservations. 
(5)	A site shall not be located within 35 miles of a State psychiatric or mental retardation center."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.