NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1098

HOUSE BILL 1522

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES FOR SOIL MAPPING MATCHING GRANTS.

 

Whereas, adequate and accurate information concerning soil resources is essential in making sound economic growth decisions related to agriculture, transportation facility siting, economic development, recreational and other uses; and

Whereas, at the current rate of production, the State's soil would not be completely mapped until the end of the century; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) in each fiscal year of the 1977-79 biennium to the Department of Natural and Economic Resources to be used to match local government contributions for the production of soil maps.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.