GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 849

HOUSE BILL 745

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO REDUCE THE UNDUE BURDEN PLACED ON WARREN COUNTY AFTER HAVING TO ABSORB THE PCB TOXIC WASTE THAT WAS SPREAD OVER SOME FOURTEEN COUNTIES AND FORT BRAGG.

 

Whereas, the orderly, environmentally sound economic growth of Warren County has been adversely affected by the polychlorinated biphenyl landfill facility being installed into the County; and

Whereas, this adverse impact has both current and potential implication for the citizens of Warren County; and

Whereas, the State of North Carolina, in its responsibility for the health and safety of all North Carolinians, removed the PCB soil from 14 county roadsides and placed this contaminated PCB soil into an Environmental Protection Agency designed and constructed facility; and

Whereas, the State was thereby rendered safer at the potential risk of Warren County citizens; and

Whereas, the economic growth of this disadvantaged County, through industrial recruitment and expansion, has been greatly complicated and made exceedingly difficult by the installation of this hazardous waste facility; and

Whereas, additionally, the social and health considerations of the County have been adversely affected; and

Whereas, there have been several legislative bills introduced by Representative Ballance, Representative Church and others to protect Warren County from the location of additional toxic waste facilities in the County and to request the detoxification of PCB with required monitoring of the current facility; and

Whereas, Governor James B. Hunt has committed to the citizens of Warren County his support in the area of industrial development, health services and social programs; and

Whereas, legislative action to provide tangible assistance through specific allocation to the benefit of the citizens of Warren County would not constitute special treatment to Warren County, but would serve to reduce the undue burden placed on Warren County after having to absorb the PCB toxic waste that was spread over 14 counties and Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of County Commissioners of Warren County the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the 1983-84 fiscal year for industrial development in order to reduce the undue burden placed on the County after having to absorb the PCB toxic waste that was spread over 14 counties and Fort Bragg.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of July, 1983.