GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1415*

Short Title:  Water Resources Dev't Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Gottovi, Hill, Redwine, Smith, and Wright.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 17, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR VARIOUS WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND VARIOUS COASTAL DREDGING 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 the sum of seven million four hundred thousand dollars ($7,400,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year to be used for water resources development projects.  The Department shall fund the following projects whose estimated costs are as indicated:
(1)	Wilmington Harbor
Deepening Study	$  612,000

(2)	Morehead City
Harbor Deepening	 4,883,000

(3)	Jordan Lake Water
Supply Repayment	   106,000

(4)	Wilmington Harbor
Ocean Bar Deepening	 2,422,000

(5)	Aquatic Plant
Control	   150,000

(6)	Wrightsville Beach
Renourishment	   400,000

(7)	Wanchese Channel
Maintenance	   280,000

(8)	State-Local Projects	   300,000

(9)	North Channel
Maint. Dredging	   523,000

(10)	Hamlet City Lake	   377,000

	(11)	Cape Fear Above
Wilmington Channel
Maintenance	   100,000

(12)	Wilmington Harbor
N.E. Cape Fear
Deepening	   240,000

(13)	Wilmington Harbor
25-ft. Project	   125,000

(14)	Dare County Beaches 	    70,000

(15)	Matching Funds for
Corps Planning	   100,000

(16)	Limestone Creek	   180,000

(17)	Deep Creek	   250,000
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 1993-94 fiscal year, or if the projects listed in Section 1 of this act 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 1993-94, 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 1994-95 fiscal year.
Sec. 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year to fund various coastal dredging projects.
Sec. 4. Beginning October 1, 1993, the Department shall make quarterly reports on the use of these funds to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, the Fiscal Research Division, and the Office of State Budget and Management.  Each report shall include:
(1)	All projects listed in this act;
(2)	The estimated cost of each project;
(3)	The date that work on each project began or is expected to begin;
(4)	The date that 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. 5. This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.