A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the department of environment and natural resources to continue the ferrymon program.
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 three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year and the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to continue the FerryMon program.  The FerryMon program is an existing program between the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Transportation, Ferry Division, that provides a unique, long‑term, and cost‑effective observing system to evaluate status and trends in water quality in the Albemarle‑Pamlico Estuarine System.  FerryMon obtains data on a real-time basis using a fleet of North Carolina Department of Transportation ferries as monitoring platforms.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.