A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase the fee for the review of erosion and sedimentation control plans to an amount sufficient to provide the funds needed to establish and support seven erosion and sedimentation control inspector positions in the department of environment and natural resources.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 113A‑54.2(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	 An application fee of sixty‑five dollars ($65.00) per acre of disturbed land shown on an erosion and sedimentation control plan or of land actually disturbed during the life of the project shall be charged for the review of erosion and sedimentation control plans."
SECTION 2.  Of the fees collected under G.S. 113A‑54.2 and credited to the Sedimentation Account established under G.S. 113A‑54.2 for the costs of administering Article 4 of Chapter 113A of the General Statutes, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources shall use the sum of four hundred seventy‑two thousand five hundred dollars ($472,500) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of four hundred seventy‑two thousand five hundred dollars ($472,500) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year for the Division of Land Resources to establish and support seven erosion and sedimentation control inspector positions.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.