GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1463

Short Title:  Water Resources Dev't Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Ethridge, Smith; and Redwine.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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June 2, 1992

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources for the 1992-93 fiscal year, the sum of six million nine hundred forty-eight thousand dollars ($6,948,000) to be used for water resources development projects.  The Department shall fund the following projects, whose estimated costs are as indicated:
(1)	Wilmington Harbor	$ 750,000
	Deepening Study

(2)	Project Feasibility	  160,000
	Studies

(3)	Planning Assistance	   50,000
	To States

(4)	Aquatic Plant Control	   45,000

(5)	Jordan Lake Water Supply	  110,000
	Repayment & Operation

(6)	Lower Creek Flood	  161,000
	Control-Lenoir

(7)	Morehead City	3,845,000
	Harbor Deepening

(8)	Wilmington Harbor-Northeast	  247,000
	Cape Fear River Navigation

(9)	State-Local Water Resources	  300,000
	Development Projects

(10)	Beaufort Harbor	   80,000

(11)	Cape Fear River Above	  100,000
	Wilmington Navigation

(12)	Wilmington Harbor	  700,000
	Navigation

(13)	Town Fork Creek Flood	  400,000
	Control and Water Supply
	(Stokes City)
Sec. 2.  Where the actual costs are different from the estimated costs under Section 1 of this act, the Department may adjust the allocations among projects as needed.  If any projects listed in Section 1 of this act are delayed and the budgeted State funds cannot be used during the 1992-93 fiscal year, or if the projects listed in Section 1 are accomplished at a lower cost, the Department may use the resulting fund availability to fund:
(1)	Corps of Engineers project feasibility studies, or
(2)	Corps of Engineers projects whose schedules have advanced and require State matching funds in fiscal year 1992-93, or
(3)	State-local Water Resources Development Projects.
Funds not expended or encumbered for these purposes shall revert to the General Fund at the end of the 1993-94 fiscal year.
Sec. 3.  Beginning October 1, 1992, the Department shall make quarterly reports on the use of these funds to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, the Director of the Fiscal Research Division, and the Office of State Budget and Management.  Each report shall include:
(1)	All projects listed in this section;
(2)	The estimated cost of each project;
(3)	The date work on each project began or is expected to begin;
(4)	The date work on each project was completed or is expected to be completed; and 
(5)	The actual cost of each project.
The quarterly reports shall also show those projects advanced in schedule, those projects delayed in schedule, and an estimate of the amount of funds expected to revert to the General Fund.
Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1992.