AN ACT 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.(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 thirty‑seven thousand one hundred and six dollars ($137,106) 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 1.(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 thirty‑seven thousand one hundred and six dollars ($137,106) 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 1.(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 subsections (b) and (d) of Section 11.4 of S. L. 2003‑284 and subsection (b) of Section 30.10 of S.L. 2004‑124.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective 1 July 2006.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 20th day of July, 2006.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved 2:06 p.m. this 3rd day of August, 2006