GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 898

Short Title:  Marine Sciences Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Rand.

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Referred to:  Appropriations

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May 1, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AND THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCES FACILITIES IN CARTERET COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  (a)	There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of seven million eight hundred thousand dollars ($7,800,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year for the construction and improvements of marine sciences teaching, research, and outreach facilities in Carteret County.
(b)	Of the funds appropriated in this section, the sum of six million eight hundred thousand dollars ($6,800,000) shall be shared equally by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University for facilities in Carteret County, including a North Carolina State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology with a seafood processing laboratory and the University of North Carolina Sea Grant Offices, and a Marine Fisheries and Human and Environmental Health Laboratory with circulating fresh seawater and experimental ponds located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Institute of Marine Sciences.
	(c) Of the funds appropriated in this section, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) shall be used for classrooms, docking facilities, and student and faculty dormitories located at the Institute of Marine Sciences.
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Community Colleges the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year for the development of a mariculture curriculum at Carteret Community College and for a Marine Sciences and Mariculture Data Information Center at Carteret Community College, which will include a distance learning classroom that will be available to Carteret Community College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Institute of Marine Sciences, North Carolina State University's Center for Marine Sciences and Technology, the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries, the Duke University Marine Laboratory, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service, and other marine sciences faculty.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.