GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001

SESSION LAW 2001-361
HOUSE BILL 612

AN ACT TO specify the effective date of THE ADMINISTRATIVE RULE RECLASSIFICATION BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION OF CERTAIN WATERS IN THE NEUSE RIVER BASIN BELOW FALLS LAKE DAM THAT WOULD HAVE THE EFFECT OF ALLOWING THE TOWN OF WAKE FOREST TO WITHDRAW ADDITIONAL WATER FROM THE NEUSE RIVER and to provide that the 2004 Regular Session of the 2003 General assembly may disapprove the rule.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding G.S. 150B‑21.3(b), 15A NCAC 2B.0315 (Neuse River Basin), as amended by the Environmental Management Commission on 12 October 2000 and approved by the Rules Review Commission on 16 November 2000, becomes effective on 1 July 2004 unless the 2004 Regular Session of the 2003 General Assembly specifically disapproves 15A NCAC 2B.0315 (Neuse River Basin), as amended by the Environmental Management Commission on 12 October 2000 and approved by the Rules Review Commission on 16 November 2000, by enactment of a bill as provided in G.S. 150B‑21.3(b).
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd day of August, 2001.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved 11:44 a.m. this 10th day of August, 2001