A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the Commercial leaking petroleum underground storage tank cleanup fund to expedite the assessment and cleanup of discharges and releases from petroleum underground storage tanks and to facilitate the transition to reliance on private insurance, and to appropriate funds to the department of environment and natural resources to cover increased program operating costs and the costs of any legislative salary increase for personnel who administer the program, as recommended by the environmental review commission.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Commercial Leaking Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund the sum of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to be used as provided in Part 2A and 2B of Article 21A of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes.  It is the intent of the General Assembly that the appropriation made by this subsection be a continuing appropriation through the 2016‑2017 fiscal year.
SECTION 2.(a)  There is appropriated from the Commercial Leaking Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year as needed to cover increased program operating costs and the cost of any legislative salary increase for personnel who administer the underground storage tank program under Parts 2A and 2B of Article 21A of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes.
SECTION 2.(b)  There is appropriated from the Noncommercial Leaking Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year as needed to cover increased program operating costs and the cost of any legislative salary increase for personnel who administer the underground storage tank program under Parts 2A and 2B of Article 21A of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes.
SECTION 2.(c)  It is the intent of the General Assembly that funds appropriated under this section are recurring funds and that these funds are in addition to funds appropriated under subsection (b) of Section 11.4 of S. L. 2003‑284 and subsection (b) of Section 30.10 of S.L. 2004‑124.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective 1 July 2006.