GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA 
SESSION 1997

SESSION LAW 1998-138
SENATE BILL 1373

AN ACT TO DISAPPROVE AN ADMINISTRATIVE RULE ADOPTED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION REGARDING THE TAR-PAMLICO RIVER BASIN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3(b), the amendments to 15A NCAC 2B.0316, (Tar-Pamlico River Basin), as adopted by the Environmental Management Commission and approved by the Rules Review Commission on 15 January 1998, are disapproved.  The Environmental Management Commission may adopt, pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.1 and consistent with G.S. 143-214.1, 143-215.1, and 143-215.3(a)(1), a temporary rule that incorporates the amendments to 15A NCAC 2B.0316 that are disapproved by this act, except that the primary classification of the portion of the Tar River designated as Index Number 28-(74) may not be reclassified from WS-IV to WS-V by a temporary rule pursuant to this act.
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 3rd day of September, 1998.
s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 1:55 p.m. this 14th day of September, 1998