GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

H	2 

HOUSE BILL 1011
Committee Substitute Favorable 7/15/97

Short Title:  Low Pressure Pipe Systems Report.	(Public)

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April 21, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE SUBMISSION OF A STATUS REPORT TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW COMMISSION REGARDING FAILING COMMUNITY LOW PRESSURE PIPE WASTEWATER SYSTEMS LOCATED IN WAKE COUNTY, TO DIRECT THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW COMMISSION TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE CONVERSION OF THESE SYSTEMS, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW COMMISSION TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  No later than October 15, 1997, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, and the North Carolina Utilities Commission shall submit a joint report to the Environmental Review Commission regarding the status of community low pressure pipe wastewater systems located in Wake County that are, as of the effective date of this act, experiencing failure.  This report shall state what corrective actions have been taken for each of the failing systems.  This report shall include which communities served by a failing community low pressure pipe wastewater system have been connected to a municipal wastewater system, which have been connected to a private wastewater system, and which have not obtained a permanent substitute wastewater system.  The Environmental Review Commission shall continue to monitor the conversion of these systems and may make any recommendations or legislative proposals it deems necessary regarding this subject to the 1998 Regular Session of the 1997 General Assembly. 
Section 2.   This act is effective when it becomes law.