GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

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SENATE BILL 821
Environment and Natural Resources Committee Substitute Adopted 5/14/91

Short Title:  Protect Water Supply Watersheds.	(Public)
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April 24, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE ISSUANCE OF A PERMIT FOR A NEW SANITARY LANDFILL OR FOR AN EXPANSION OF AN EXISTING SANITARY LANDFILL LOCATED IN CERTAIN CLASSIFIED WATER SUPPLY WATERSHEDS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Part 2 of Article 9 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 130A-295.2.  Limitations on permits for sanitary landfills in water supply watersheds.
(a)	No permit shall be issued for a new sanitary landfill for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste that would be located within the watershed of any of the surface waters of the State that are assigned water supply classifications WS-I, WS-II, or WS-III under rules adopted by the Environmental Management Commission pursuant to G.S. 143-214.5.
(b)	No permit shall be issued for a new sanitary landfill or for the expansion of an existing sanitary landfill for the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste that would be or is located within the watershed of any of the surface waters of the State that were assigned water supply classifications WS-I or WS-II by the Environmental Management Commission as of 30 June 1990, or within the watershed of any of the surface waters of the State for which on 30 June 1990, there was pending before the Environmental Management Commission a petition for the classification or reclassification of such waters to WS-I or WS-II."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.