A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the Department of environment and natural resources to provide for the acquisition and protection of ecologically important forestlands from the international paper company.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year for acquisition and programming costs associated with the transfer to public ownership of approximately 76,563 acres owned by International Paper Company in the Roanoke River, Upper Tar River, and Chowan River Basins and in the Waccamaw River subbasin of the Lumber River Basin.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective 1 July 2006.