A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to make clarifying, conforming, and technical amendments to various laws related to the environment, Environmental Health, and NAtural Resources.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 113‑44.8(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The State of North Carolina offers unique archaeologic, geologic, biological, scenic, and recreational resources. These resources are part of the heritage of the people of this State. The heritage of a people should be preserved and managed by the people for their use and for the use of their visitors and descendants."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 113‑173(e) reads as rewritten:
"(e)	Replacement RCGL. – The provisions of G.S. 113‑168.1(h) apply to this section."
SECTION 3.  G.S. 113A‑232(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Fund Created. – The Conservation Grant Fund is created within the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The Fund shall be administered by the Department. The purpose of the Fund is to stimulate the use of conservation easements and conservation tax credits, to improve the capacity of private nonprofit land trust organizations to successfully accomplish conservation projects, to better equip real estate related professionals to pursue opportunities for conservation, to increase landowner participation in land and water conservation, and to provide an opportunity to leverage private and other public monies for conservation easements."
SECTION 4.  G.S. 130A‑309.14(a1)(3) reads as rewritten:
"(3)	The Department of Administration and the Department of Transportation shall each provide by 1 October of each year to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources a detailed description of the respective Agency's review and revision of bid procedures and purchase and use of reusable, refillable, repairable, more durable, and less toxic supplies and products. The information provided by the Department of Administration and the Department of Transportation to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources shall also be included in the report required by G.S. 130A‑309.06(c)."
SECTION 5. G.S. 143‑215.107B reads as rewritten:
"§ 143‑215.107B.  Statewide goals for reduction in emissions of oxides of nitrogen; report.
It shall be the goal of the State to reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) from all sources by at least twenty‑five percent (25%) by 1 July 2009. It shall be the goal of the State to reduce the growth of vehicle miles traveled in the State by at least twenty‑five percent (25%) of that growth that would otherwise occur by 1 July 2009. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Transportation shall evaluate progress toward achieving these goals in each fiscal year and shall report their findings and recommendations as to any measures that may be needed to achieve these goals to the Environmental Review Commission on or before 1 October of each year."
SECTION 6. G.S. 143‑215.108(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Except as provided in subsections (a1) and (a2) of this section, no person shall do any of the following things or carry out any of the following activities that contravene or will be likely to contravene standards established pursuant to G.S. 143‑215.107 or set out in G.S. 143‑215.107D unless that person has obtained a permit from the Commission and has complied with any conditions of the permit:
(1)	Establish or operate any air contaminant source.
(2)	Build, erect, use or operate any equipment that may result in the emission of an air contaminant or that is likely to cause air pollution.
(3)	Alter or change the construction or method of operation of any equipment or process from which air contaminants are or may be emitted.
(4)	Enter into an irrevocable contract for the construction and installation of any air‑cleaning device, or allow or cause any air‑cleaning device to be constructed, installed, or operated."
SECTION 7.  G.S. 143‑726(d)(4) reads as rewritten:
"(4)	The Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources."
SECTION 8.  This act is effective when it becomes law.