A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to make clarifying, conforming, and technical amendments to various laws related to the environment, public health, and natural resources, as recommended by the environmental review commission.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 113‑301.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 113‑301.1.  Wildlife Resources Commission obligated to make efforts to notify members of the public who may be affected by operative provisions of statutes and rules.
(a)	The Wildlife Resources Commission must prepare and distribute to license agents informational materials relating to hunting, fishing, trapping, and boating laws and rules administered by the Wildlife Resources Commission. The materials furnished an agent should be appropriate to the types of licenses the agent customarily handles, and in a quantity reasonably anticipated to be sufficient to meet the needs of licensees obtaining licenses from the agent.
(b)	In issuing new licenses and permits from the Raleigh office by mail, the Wildlife Resources Commission must generally inform the licensee or permittee of governing provisions of law and rules applicable to the type of license or permit secured. In issuing renewal licenses and permits by mail, the Wildlife Resources Commission must inform the licensee or permittee of any substantial changes in the law or  rules that may affect the activities of the licensee or permittee.
(c)	After adopting regulations that impose new restrictions upon the activities of members of the public who do not normally hold licenses or permits to engage in the activity in question, the Wildlife Resources Commission must take appropriate steps to publicize the new restrictions. These steps may include press releases to the media, informing local authorities, and other forms of communication that give promise of reaching the segment of the public affected.
(d)	After adopting new restrictions on hunting, fishing, trapping, or boating at a time other than when usual annual changes in the rules affecting those activities are adopted, the Wildlife Resources Commission must take appropriate steps to publicize the new restrictions in a manner designed to reach persons who may be affected.
(e)	Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 827, s. 9."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 113A‑115.1(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	No person shall construct a permanent erosion control structure in an ocean shoreline. The Commission shall not permit the construction of a temporary erosion control structure that consists of anything other than sandbags in an ocean shoreline. This section shall not apply to (i) any permanent erosion control structure that is approved pursuant to an exception set out in a rule adopted by the Commission prior to 1 July 2003 or (ii) any permanent erosion control structure that was originally constructed prior to 1 July 1974 and that has since been in continuous use to protect an inlet that is maintained for navigation. This section shall not be construed to limit the authority of the Commission to adopt rules to designate or protect areas of environmental concern, to govern the use of sandbags, or to govern the use of erosion control structures in estuarine shorelines."
SECTION 3.  G.S. 121‑34 reads as rewritten:
"§ 121‑34.  Short title.
The title of this Article shall be known as the 'Conservation and Historic Preservation Agreements Act.'"
SECTION 4.  G.S. 121‑42 reads as rewritten:
"§ 121‑42.  Citation of Article.
This Article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Conservation and Historic Preservation Agreements Act.'"
SECTION 5.  This act is effective when it becomes law.