GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	2 

HOUSE BILL 133
Committee Substitute Favorable 3/28/91

Short Title:  DOT Use of Certain Recycled Goods.	(Public)
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February 21, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO USE, CONSISTENT WITH ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY AND APPLICABLE ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY STANDARDS, CERTAIN RECYCLED GOODS FOR SPECIFIED PURPOSES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 130A-309.14(f) reads as rewritten:
"(f)	(1)	All State agencies, including the Department of Transportation and the Department of Administration, and units of local government are required to procure compost products when they can be substituted for, and cost no more than, regular soil amendment products, provided the compost products meet all applicable engineering and environmental quality standards, specifications, and rules.  This product preference shall apply to, but not be limited to, highway construction and maintenance projects, highway planting and beautification projects, recultivation and erosion control programs, and other projects.
(2)	The Department of Transportation shall, consistent with economic feasibility and applicable engineering and environmental quality standards, use scrap tires, demolition debris, and untreated, stabilized, or encapsulated ash from boilers and incinerators in highway construction and maintenance projects."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective 1 July 1991.