GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 501

SENATE BILL 824

 

AN ACT DIRECTING A STUDY OF THE WATER QUALITY ACT OF 1987 TO DETERMINE STATE COMPATIBILITY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Department of Natural Resources and Community Development shall review the Water Quality Act of 1987, Pub. L. No. 100-4, 101 Stat. 7 (1987) and determine the extent to which current State law is compatible therewith.  The Department shall report its findings and recommendations to the House Committee on Natural and Economic Resources, the House Committee on Water and Air Resources, the Senate Committee on the Environment, the Senate Committee on Natural and Economic Resources and Wildlife, and the General Research Division.  The Department shall submit a preliminary report by January 15, 1988, and shall submit its final report no later than two weeks prior to the date set for the 1987 General Assembly to reconvene for the 1988 Regular Session.  Notwithstanding any rule of the General Assembly to the contrary, legislation implementing the recommendations of the report may be introduced and considered during the 1988 Regular Session.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29th day of June, 1987.