GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 605

HOUSE BILL 79

 

AN ACT TO MODIFY THE REGULATION OF HAZARDOUS WASTE AND PCB LANDFILLS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 130-166.18(c)(8) is rewritten to read:

"(8)      Location, design, ownership and construction of hazardous waste facilities; provided, however, that no hazardous waste landfill facility or polychlorinated biphenyl landfill facility shall be located within 25 miles of any other hazardous waste landfill facility or polychlorinated biphenyl landfill facility;".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 143B-216.10(c) is amended by adding a new sentence at the end to read:

"Hazardous waste landfill facilities and polychlorinated biphenyl landfill facilities shall be detoxified as soon as technology which is economically feasible is available and sufficient money is available without additional appropriation."

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1983.