GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1991 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 522

HOUSE BILL 133

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO USE, CONSISTENT WITH ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY AND APPLICABLE ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY STANDARDS, CERTAIN RECYCLED GOODS FOR SPECIFIED PURPOSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 130A-309.14(f) reads as rewritten:

"(f)      (1)       All State agencies, including the Department of Transportation, Transportation and the Department of Administration, and units of local government, government are required to procure compost products when they can be substituted for, and cost no more than, regular soil amendment products, provided the compost products meet all applicable State engineering and environmental quality standards, specifications, and rules.  This product preference shall apply to, but not be limited to, the construction of highway construction and maintenance projects, road rights-of-way, highway planting and beautification projects, recultivation and erosion control programs, and other projects.

(2)       The Department of Transportation shall, consistent with economic feasibility and applicable engineering and environmental quality standards, use scrap tires, demolition debris, and untreated, stabilized, or encapsulated ash from boilers and incinerators in highway construction and maintenance projects."

Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective 1 July 1991.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 3rd day of July, 1991.

 

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James C. Gardner

President of the Senate

 

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives