Title: S.L. 1987-781
Category: Session Law

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION

CHAPTER 781
HOUSE BILL 379

AN ACT TO MAKE AQUATIC WEED CONTROL PROJECTS ELIGIBLE FOR COST SHARING, AND TO ALLOW THE TOWN OF COLUMBIA AND TYRRELL COUNTY TO LEASE CERTAIN PROPERTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 143-215.71 reads as rewritten:
"§ 143-215.71.  Purposes for which grants may be requested.–Applications for grants may be made for the nonfederal share of water resources development projects for the following purposes in amounts not to exceed the percentage of the nonfederal costs indicated:
(1)	General navigation projects that are sponsored by local governments – eighty percent (80%);
(2)	Recreational navigation projects – twenty-five percent (25%);
(3)	Construction costs for water management (flood control and drainage) purposes, including utility and road relocations not funded by the State Department of Transportation – sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%), but only of that portion of the project specifically allocated for such flood control or drainage purposes;
(4)	Stream restoration – sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%);
(5)	Protection of privately owned beaches where public access is allowed and provided for – seventy-five percent (75%);
(6)	Land acquisition and facility development for water-based recreation sites operated by local governments – fifty percent (50%);
(7)	Aquatic weed control projects sponsored by local governments – fifty percent (50%)."
Sec. 1.1.  (a) G.S. 160A-272 is amended by deleting "10 years", and substituting "20 years"
(b)	This section applies only to the Town of Columbia and Tyrrell County, and only applies as to property located on Water Street in the Town of Columbia."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12th day of August, 1987.

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