GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 551

SENATE BILL 831

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR REGULATION OF UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143B-282(2) is amended by adding a new subparagraph to read:

"h. For governing the registration, construction, installation, monitoring, repair, closure, financial responsibility, and leaks of underground tanks used for the storage of hazardous substances or oil pursuant to Article 21 or Article 21A of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 143-215.3(a) is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:

"(15)   To develop and adopt standards and regulations necessary to implement programs to prevent pollution from underground tanks containing oil or hazardous substances, in accordance with those requirements made mandatory upon approved State programs by federal agencies administering the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, including the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1985.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1985.