GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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HOUSE BILL 1121
Committee Substitute Favorable 7/9/93

Short Title:  Expansions of Water Supply Plans.	(Public)
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April 19, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT A UNIT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FROM EXPANDING ITS LOCAL WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM UNLESS IT HAS COMPLETED AN APPROVED LOCAL WATER SUPPLY PLAN.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 143-355(l) reads as rewritten:
"(l)	Each unit of local government that provides public water services or that plans to provide such service shall, either individually or together with other such units of local government, prepare a local water supply plan and submit it to the Department not later than January 1, 1995.  The Department shall provide technical assistance with the preparation of such plans to units of local government upon request and to the extent that the Department has resources available to provide such assistance.  At a minimum, local units of government shall include in local water supply plans such information as is readily available to them.  However this subsection shall be construed to require the preparation of local water supply plans only to the extent that technical assistance is made available to units of local government from the Department.  Such plans shall include present and projected population, industrial development, and water use within the service area, present and future water supplies, an estimate of such technical assistance as may be needed at the local level to address projected water needs, and such other related information as the Department may require in the preparation of a State water supply plan.  Local plans shall be revised to reflect changes in relevant data and projections at least once each five years unless the Department requests more frequent revisions.  Local plans and revised plans shall be submitted to the Department once they have been approved by the unit(s) of local government."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.