GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

S.L. 1997-374
HOUSE BILL 1032

AN ACT TO DIRECT THE COMMISSION FOR HEALTH SERVICES TO ADOPT A RULE TO AUTHORIZE THE USE OF DESIGN CRITERIA FOR MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS THAT COMPLIES WITH FEDERAL LAW AND THAT PROVIDES FOR ALTERNATE LANDFILL LINERS THAT ARE AT LEAST AS PROTECTIVE AS THE CURRENTLY AUTHORIZED LANDFILL LINER.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Commission for Health Services shall adopt a rule regarding design criteria for municipal solid waste landfills that complies with 40 C.F.R. Part 258.40 (1 July 1996 Edition) and that provides for alternate landfill liners that are at least as protective as the liner currently authorized under the rules of the Commission for Health Services.
Section 2.  This act constitutes a recent act of the General Assembly within the meaning of G.S. 150B-21.1.  The Commission for Health Services shall adopt the rule required by Section 1 of this act as a temporary rule no later than 1 July 1998.
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29th day of July, 1997.
s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 5:48 p.m. this 6th day of August, 1997