GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001

SESSION LAW 2001-284
HOUSE BILL 1111

AN ACT TO EXPAND THE powers and DUTIES OF THE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION COMMISSION of the department of environment and natural resources TO INCLUDE DEVELOPment and implementation of A PROGRAM to approve water quality and animal waste management system TECHNICAL SPECIALISTS AND DEVELOPMENT AND APPROVAL OF water quality BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 139‑4(d) is amended by adding two new subdivisions to read:
"(11)	To develop and implement a program for the approval of water quality and animal waste management systems technical specialists.
(12)	To develop and approve best management practices for use in the water quality protection programs of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and to adopt rules that establish criteria governing approval of these best management practices."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of July, 2001.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved 9:56 a.m. this 13th day of July, 2001