A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to amend certain environmental and natural resources laws to provide that private drinking water wells are to be tested for certain additional Parameters, As recommended by the environmental review commission.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 87‑97(h) reads as rewritten:
"(h)	Drinking Water Testing. – Within 30 days after it issues a certificate of completion for a newly constructed private drinking water well, the local health department shall test the water obtained from the well or ensure that the water obtained from the well has been sampled and tested by a certified laboratory in accordance with rules adopted by the Commission for Public Health. The water shall be tested for the following parameters: arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, copper, fluoride, lead, iron, magnesium, manganese, mercury, nitrates, nitrites, selenium, silver, sodium, zinc, pH, bacterial indicators, methyl tert‑butyl ether, ethylene dibromide, 1,2‑dichloroethane, 1,2‑dichloropropane, isopropyl ether, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes, trichloroethylene, and tetrachloroethylene."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective 1 July 2008.