GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 325

Short Title:  Watershed Funds Not Revert.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Yongue, Sutton, and Cummings.

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Referred to:  Appropriations, Subcommittee on Natural & Economic Resources.

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Mary 1, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 561 OF THE 1993 SESSION LAWS TO PROVIDE THAT FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR THE MEADOW BRANCH WATERSHED PROJECT IN ROBESON COUNTY SHALL NOT REVERT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Section 107 of Chapter 561 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 107.  (a)	Of the funds appropriated in this act to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources for the 1993-94 fiscal year the sum of seven million nine hundred eight thousand dollars ($7,908,000) shall be used for water resources development projects, and the sum of one million one hundred eighty thousand dollars ($1,180,000) shall be used for small watershed projects.  The Department shall allocate funds for the following projects whose estimated costs are as indicated:
(1)	Wilmington Harbor
	Deepening Study	$  612,000

(2)	Morehead City
	Harbor Deepening	 3,825,000

(3)	Jordan Lake Water
	Supply Repayment	   130,000

(4)	Wilmington Harbor
	Ocean Bar Deepening	 1,016,000

(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
	Maintenance Dredging	   523,000

(10)	Hamlet City Lake	   377,000

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

(12)	Wilmington Harbor
	25-feet Project	   125,000

(13)	Dare County Beaches 	    70,000

(14)	Limestone Creek	   180,000
	(Duplin County)

(15)	Deep Creek	   250,000
	(Yadkin County)

(16)	Town Fork	   400,000
	(Stokes County)

(17)	Meadow Branch	   350,000.
	(Robeson County)
(b)	Where the actual costs are different from the estimated costs under subsection (a) of this section, the Department may adjust the allocations among projects as needed.  If any projects listed in subsection (a) of this section are delayed and the budgeted State funds cannot be used during the 1993-94 fiscal year, or if the projects listed in subsection (a) of this section 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, except those allocated in subdivision (a)(17) of this section, not expended or encumbered for these purposes shall revert to the General Fund at the end of the 1994-95 fiscal year.
(c)	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 section;
(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. 2.  This act becomes effective June 30, 1995.