GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1495

Short Title:  DOT Required to Compost.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Kinnaird; Gulley, Horton, Lucas, Miller, Odom, Shaw of Cumberland, Warren, Wellons, and Winner.

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Referred to:  Transportation.

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May 28, 1998

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO RECYCLE YARD TRASH AND OTHER ORGANIC SOLID WASTE IN HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE PROJECTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 130A-309.14(f) is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(3)	The Department of Transportation shall, in highway construction and maintenance projects, recycle yard trash and other organic solid waste into compost available for agricultural and other acceptable uses.  The Department of Transportation may satisfy this subdivision by source separating the yard trash and other organic solid waste and transporting it to a solid waste area that provides and maintains separate yard trash composting facilities."
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the 1998-99 fiscal year for the costs of implementing this act.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1998, and applies to contracts entered into on or after that date by the Department of Transportation for the construction and maintenance of highways.