A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to produce landslide hazard maps for thirteen identified counties and other counties with known landslide problems and to provide technical assistance to local government and emergency managers on landslide and other geohazard problems.
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 one million four hundred three thousand sixty‑five dollars ($1,403,065) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of one million four hundred three thousand sixty‑five dollars ($1,403,065) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year for the North Carolina Geological Survey within the Division of Land Resources to be used to produce landslide hazard maps for the 13 remaining counties of the 19 western North Carolina counties affected by Hurricanes Frances and Ivan, as identified in the Hurricane Recovery Act of 2005, S.L. 2005‑1, to produce landslide hazard maps for other counties with known landslide problems, and to provide technical assistance to local government and emergency managers on landslide and other geohazard problems, thereby potentially saving lives and reducing economic loss and damage to infrastructure from landslides. 
SECTION 2.  The funds appropriated under Section 1 of this act shall not revert and shall remain available for the purposes set forth in Section 1 of this act.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.