GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1557

Short Title:  Water Resource Development Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Perdue.
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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 DECELERATE DOWNDRIFT EROSION OF THE BEACHES THAT RESULTS FROM DREDGING OPERATIONS BY REQUIRING SAND TO BE PLACED ON THE DOWNDRIFT BEACHES AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR VARIOUS WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 113-229(i) reads as rewritten:
"(i)	Subject to subsection (h1) of this section, all materials excavated pursuant to such permit, regardless of where placed, shall be encased or entrapped in such a manner as to minimize their moving back into the affected water."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 113-229 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"( h1)	All construction and maintenance dredgings of beach-quality sand shall be placed on the downdrift beaches or, if placed elsewhere, an equivalent quality and quantity of sand from another location shall be placed on the downdrift beaches."
Sec. 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources the sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to be allocated as follows:
(1)	$1,950,000 for items 3-12 of the Governor's list of Recommended Water Resource Development Projects.
(2)	$50,000 for State and local water resource projects.
Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.