GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 25
SENATE BILL 286

AN ACT TO REQUIRE LABORATORIES TO PERFORM COMPOSITE TESTING OF WATER SAMPLES AS PART OF THE LABORATORY CERTIFICATION PROGRAM IN AN EFFORT TO REDUCE COSTS OF WATER TESTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 130A-315 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(b3)	The Department shall not certify or renew a certification of a laboratory under rules adopted pursuant to subdivision (3)b. of subsection (b) of this section unless the laboratory offers to perform composite testing of samples taken from a single public water supply system for those contaminants that the laboratory is seeking certification or renewal of certification to the extent allowed by regulations adopted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.  Laboratories certified prior to the effective date of this act shall have a 30 day grace period in which to comply.  The Department shall revoke any certification or renewal of a certification from any laboratory that does not offer to perform composite testing of water samples within 30 days of the effective date of this act.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of April, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives