GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1486*

Short Title:  Neuse Modeling Project Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representative Eddins.

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Referred to:  Environment, if favorable, Appropriations.

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May 25, 1998

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO MONITOR AND MODEL THE NEUSE RIVER AND ESTUARY UNDER THE NEUSE RIVER MODELING AND MONITORING (MODMON) PROJECT, DEVELOP A HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL OF THE NEUSE WATERSHED, AND LINK THESE MODELS SO THAT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CURRENT NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR THE NEUSE RIVER BASIN CAN BE DETERMINED, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW COMMISSION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to be transferred to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for the Water Resources Research Institute the sum of one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) for the 1998-99 fiscal year to be used to monitor and model the Neuse River and the Neuse estuary under the Modeling and Monitoring (MODMON) Project, to develop a hydrodynamic model of the Neuse watershed, and to link these models in order to provide the data needed to determine the effectiveness of current nutrient management strategies for the Neuse River Basin.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1998.