GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 969

Short Title:  Air Quality Standard/Hog Farms.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Kinnaird; Ballantine, Miller, Odom, and Reeves.

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Referred to:  Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources.

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April 21, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO DIRECT THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION TO ADOPT AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS FOR TOXIC AIR POLLUTANTS OR TO APPLY CURRENT STANDARDS FOR TOXIC AIR POLLUTANTS TO INTENSIVE SWINE OPERATIONS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 143-215.107(a) is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(11)	To develop and adopt ambient air quality standards for ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and other toxic air pollutants for intensive swine operations or to apply its existing ambient air quality standards for toxic air pollutants to intensive swine operations.  For purposes of this subdivision, 'intensive swine operation' means a swine farm, as defined in G.S. 106-802, that has an animal waste management system with a design capacity of more than 400,000 pounds steady state live weight."
Section 2.  Beginning January 1, 1998, and annually thereafter, the Environmental Management Commission shall report to the Environmental Review Commission on the development, adoption, and implementation of ambient air quality standards for intensive swine operations under Section 1 of this act.
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to new and expanding intensive swine operations beginning July 1, 1999, and to existing intensive swine operations beginning July 1, 2004.