A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to study the FEASIBILITY of establishing an inland port in the advantagewest region.
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 two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year to be allocated to the Institute for the Economy and the Future of Western Carolina University, to study the feasibility of establishing an inland port within the 23 county region of the North Carolina Regional Economic Development Commission, known as AdvantageWest. Western Carolina University shall work with AdvantageWest in conducting the study.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.