GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 560
HOUSE BILL 1642

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE TIME BY WHICH THE NORTH CAROLINA UTILITIES COMMISSION AND THE PUBLIC STAFF PROVIDE BIENNIAL NATURAL GAS SERVICE REPORTS TO THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE UTILITY REVIEW COMMITTEE, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE UTILITY REVIEW COMMITTEE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 62-36A reads as rewritten:
"§ 62-36A.  Natural gas planning.
(a)	The Commission shall require each franchised natural gas local distribution company to file reports with the Commission detailing its plans for providing natural gas service in areas of its franchise territory in which natural gas service is not available.  Commission rules shall require that each local distribution company shall update its report at least every two years.
(b)	The Commission shall develop rules to carry out the intent of subsection (a) of this section, and to produce an orderly system for reviewing current levels of natural gas service and planning the orderly expansion of natural gas service to areas not served.
(c)	Within 180 days after all local distribution companies have filed their initial or biennial update reports, the Commission and the Public Staff shall independently provide analyses and summaries of those reports, together with status reports of natural gas service in the State, to the Joint Legislative Utility Review Committee."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13th day of June, 1994.

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Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives