GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1512

Short Title:  Aboveground Tank Program Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Odom; Blackmon, Richardson, and Winner of Mecklenburg.
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Referred to:  Environment and Natural Resources.
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May 25, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND NATURAL RESOURCES INSTITUTE A PROGRAM WHEREBY THE DEPARTMENT IS REQUIRED TO INSPECT EACH OIL TERMINAL FACILITY IN THE STATE AND MONITOR EACH FACILITY TO DETERMINE WHETHER ANY OIL HAS BEEN DISCHARGED FROM AN ABOVEGROUND STORAGE TANK TO THE LAND, WATERS, OR AIR OF THE STATE AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT TO IMPLEMENT THIS PROGRAM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Part 3 of Article 21A of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 143-215.99.  Oil terminal facility inspection and monitoring program.
(a)	The Department shall inspect each oil terminal facility in the State and shall monitor each facility to determine whether any oil or other hazardous substance has been discharged from any aboveground storage tank at the facility to the land, waters, or air of this State.
(b)	As used in this section, 'aboveground storage tank' means any combination of tanks, including piping connected to the tanks, used to contain an accumulation of petroleum products, the volume of which, including the volume of the piping connected to the tanks, is ten percent (10%) or more above the surface of the ground."
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to implement the inspection and monitoring program enacted in Section 1 of this act.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.