GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 174

Short Title:  Match for Fed. Water Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Kerr; Hartsell, Hoyle, Odom, Plyler, Rand, and Reeves.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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February 18, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO MATCH FEDERAL WATER SUPPLY ASSISTANCE AND FEDERAL WASTEWATER FUNDS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources the sum of nine million two hundred thousand dollars ($9,200,000) for the 1997-98 fiscal year to match the federal water supply assistance funds for revolving construction loans and other assistance as set forth in Title I, section 130 of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996.  The funds are to be deposited in a State fund that is available from year to year for the purpose of providing revolving loans and grants to local government units for water supply assistance.
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources the sum of four million dollars ($4,000,000) for the 1997-98 fiscal year to be deposited in the State Revolving Water Fund account of the Clean Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund to match the federal wastewater funds for revolving construction loans and other assistance as set forth in Chapter 159G of the General Statutes.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1997.