A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to study methods to provide simultaneous and sufficient primary state highway development with the development of the North Carolina International Port.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Transportation and the State Ports Authority shall study the feasibility and cost of constructing a primary State highway simultaneously with the development of the North Carolina International Port.  This study shall determine the most cost-effective way to relieve the traffic congestion of NC Routes 211, 133, and 87, and the feasibility of constructing a new primary State highway to the port facility from U.S. Highway 17 or NC Route 87 north of Boiling Springs Lake city limits. 
The cost of this study shall come from funds already appropriated to the Department of Transportation and the State Ports Authority. Each agency shall bear one-half of the costs of the study.
SECTION 2.  The Department of Transportation shall report the findings of the study on the feasibility and cost of constructing a primary State highway simultaneously with the development of the North Carolina International Port to the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee by May 1, 2007.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.