A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to amend the Highway trust fund act description of the durham NORTHERN loop AND INTRASTATE improvement projectS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 136‑180(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Funds allocated from the Trust Fund for urban loops may be used only for the following urban loops:

	Affected
Loop	Description	Counties

Asheville Western	Multilane facility on new	Buncombe
Loop	location from I‑26 west of
Asheville to US‑19/23
north of Asheville for the
purpose of connecting these
roads. The funds may be
used to improve existing
corridors.
Charlotte Outer Loop	Multilane facility on	Mecklenburg
new location encircling
City of Charlotte
Durham Northern Loop		Durham, Wake

The projects listed below are eligible for funding under this section as part of the Durham Northern Loop. The priorities for planning and constructing these projects will be established by mutual agreement of the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and the Department of Transportation through the federally mandated Transportation Improvement Program development process. The cross sections for these projects will be established by mutual agreement of the MPO and the Department of Transportation through the State and federal environmental review process.(1) East end connector, from N.C. 147 to U.S. 70 East.
(2) U.S. 70, from Lynn Rd. to the Northern Durham Parkway.
(3) I-85, from U.S. 70 to Red Mill Rd.
(4) Northern Durham Parkway, Section B, from Old Oxford Rd. to I-85.
(5) Northern Durham Parkway, Section A, from I‑85 to I-540.
(6) Northern Durham Parkway, Section C, from Old Oxford Rd. to Roxboro Rd.
(7) Roxboro Rd. from Duke St. to Goodwin Rd.
Greensboro Loop	Multilane facility on new	Guilford
location encircling City 
of Greensboro
Raleigh Outer Loop	Multilane facility on	Wake
new location from US‑1
southwest of Cary 
northerly to US‑64 in 
eastern Wake County
Wilmington Bypass	Multilane facility on new	New Hanover
location from US‑17 
northeast of Wilmington
to US‑17 southwest 
of  Wilmington,
including the Blue Clay Road
interchange
Winston‑Salem	Multilane facility on 	Forsyth
Northbelt	new location from I‑40 west
of Winston‑Salem northerly
to I‑40 in eastern Forsyth
County"
SECTION 2.  G.S. 136‑179 reads as rewritten:
"§ 136‑179.  Projects of Intrastate System funded from Trust Fund.
Funds allocated from the Trust Fund for the Intrastate System may be used only for the following projects of the Intrastate System:

Route	Improvements	Affected Counties
I‑40	Widening	Buncombe, Haywood,
Guilford, Wake, Durham

I‑77	Widening	Mecklenburg

I‑85	Widening	Durham, Orange, Alamance,
Guilford, Cabarrus,
Mecklenburg, Gaston

I‑95 	Widening	Halifax

US‑1	Complete 4‑laning from	Vance, Franklin,
Henderson to South	Wake, Chatham, Lee,
Carolina Line	Moore, Richmond
(including 6‑laning of
Raleigh Beltline)

US‑13	 Connectors from I‑95	
to NC‑87	Cumberland, Robeson	

US‑13	Complete 4‑laning from	Gates, Hertford,
Virginia Line to US‑17	Bertie

US‑17	Complete 4‑laning from	Camden, Pasquotank,
Virginia Line to South	Perquimans, Chowan,
Carolina Line (including	Bertie, Martin,
Washington, New Bern,	Beaufort, Craven,
and Jacksonville	Jones, Onslow,
Bypasses)	Pender, New Hanover,
	Brunswick

US‑19/	Complete 4‑laning from	Madison, Yancey,
US‑19E	US‑23 to NC 194 in	Mitchell, Avery
Ingalls

US‑19	Complete 4‑laning	Cherokee, Macon,
Swain

US‑23	Complete 4‑laning and	Madison, Buncombe
upgrading existing 
4‑lanes from Tennessee
Line to I‑240

US‑23‑441	Complete 4‑laning from	Macon
US‑19/US‑74 to Georgia
Line

US‑52	Complete 4‑laning from	Surry, Davidson
I‑77 to Lexington
(including new I‑77
Connector)

US‑64	Complete 4‑laning from	Edgecombe, Pitt,
Raleigh to Coast	Martin, Washington,
(including freeway	Tyrrell, Dare
construction from I‑95
to US‑17)

US‑64	Complete 4‑laning from	Davidson, Randolph,
Lexington to Raleigh	Chatham, Wake

US‑70	Complete 4‑laning from	Wake, Johnston,
Raleigh to Morehead City	Wayne, Lenoir,
(including Clayton,	Craven
Goldsboro, Kinston,
Smithfield‑Selma, and
Havelock Bypasses
predominately freeways
on predominately new
locations)

US‑74	Complete 4‑laning from	Mecklenburg, Union,
Charlotte to US‑17	Richmond, Robeson,
(including multilaning	Columbus
of Independence Blvd. in
Charlotte, and Bypasses 
of Monroe, Rockingham,
and Hamlet)

US‑74	Complete 4‑laning from	Polk, Rutherford
I‑26 to I‑85

US‑158	Complete 4‑laning	Forsyth, Guilford,
from Winston‑Salem	Rockingham, Caswell,
to Whalebone	Person, Granville,
Vance, Warren,
Halifax,
Northampton, Gates,
Hertford,
Pasquotank, Camden,
Currituck, Dare

New bridge over	Currituck
Currituck Sound

US‑221	Complete 4‑laning from	Avery, McDowell,
Linville to South 	Rutherford
Carolina

US‑220	Complete 4‑laning from	Guilford, Randolph,
I‑40 to US‑1	Montgomery, Richmond

US‑220/NC‑68	Complete 4‑laning from	Rockingham, Guilford
Virginia Line to I‑40

US‑264	Complete 4‑laning from	Wilson, Greene,
US‑64 to Washington	Pitt
(including Wilson and
Greenville Bypasses)
(including freeway
construction from I‑95
to Greenville)

US‑321	Complete 4‑laning from	Caldwell, Catawba,
Boone to South Carolina	Lincoln, Gaston
Line

US‑421	Complete 4‑laning from	Watauga, Wilkes,
Tennessee Line to I‑40	Yadkin

US‑421	Complete 4‑laning from	Chatham, Lee
Greensboro to Sanford
(including Bypass of 
Sanford)

NC‑24	Complete 4‑laning from	Mecklenburg,
Charlotte to Morehead 	Cabarrus, Stanly,
City	Montgomery, Moore,
Harnett, Cumberland,
Sampson, Duplin,
Onslow, Carteret

NC‑87	Complete 4‑laning from	Lee, Harnett,
Sanford to US‑74	Cumberland, Bladen,
Columbus

NC‑105	Complete 4‑laning from	Watauga, Avery
Boone to Linville

NC‑168	Complete multilaning	Currituck
from Virginia Line
to US‑158

NC‑194	Complete 4‑laning from	Avery
US‑19E to US‑221"

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.