AN ACT to increase the percentage of revenue credited to the dry‑cleaning solvent cleanup fund that may be used to pay costs of assessment or remediation of dry‑cleaning solvent contamination that occurred prior to 1 July 2001, as recommended by the Environmental review commission.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 2.(c) of S.L. 2001‑265 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 2.(c)  The total of all payments made pursuant to this section in a single fiscal year shall not exceed twenty‑five percent (25%) of the revenues credited to the Dry‑Cleaning Solvent Cleanup Fund in the preceding fiscal year."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective 1 July 2004.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of June, 2004.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 Richard T. Morgan
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2004