A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the board of governors of the university of north carolina for north carolina state university to establish the williamsdale farm energy field laboratory in duplin county, to study alternative fuel and feed sources, and to establish a center to study clean use of traditional energy sources and alternative renewable energy sources.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of three million five hundred thousand dollars ($3,500,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of one million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to be allocated to North Carolina State University, North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, to establish the Williamsdale Farm Energy Field Laboratory on the site of Williamsdale Farm in Duplin County. The funds appropriated by this section shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	For fiscal year 2007‑2008 the sum of one million nine hundred thousand dollars ($1,900,000) shall be allocated to North Carolina State University to be used for infrastructure and equipment for the field laboratory and the sum of one million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000) shall be allocated to North Carolina State University for recurring operational expenses of the field laboratory and for related bioenergy technologies research.
(2)	For fiscal year 2008‑2009 the sum of one million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000) shall be allocated to North Carolina State University for recurring operational expenses of the field laboratory and for related bioenergy technologies research.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to be allocated to North Carolina State University, North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, to conduct research to improve the feeding value of ethanol, biodiesel by‑products, and alternative feed sources that might be used for the swine and poultry industries.
SECTION 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to be allocated to North Carolina State University to provide funds for a center that will focus on all of the following:
(1)	New technologies for efficient and clean use of traditional energy sources.
(2)	Alternative, environmentally safe, and renewable energy sources, especially new technologies for biofuel substrates and their conversion to affordable bioenergy.
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.