H.B. 20
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
Jan 27, 2021
SESSION 2021 HOUSE PRINCIPAL CLERK
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HOUSE BILL DRH10000-CC-1
Short Title: 1998 Clean Water Bond Add'l Connections. (Public)
Sponsors: Representative Sasser.
Referred to:
1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
2 AN ACT TO EXPAND THE TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT CONNECTIONS TO WATER
3 SUPPLY LINES FUNDED BY THE CLEAN WATER AND NATURAL GAS CRITICAL
4 NEEDS BOND ACT OF 1998.
5 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
6 SECTION 1. Section 5 of S.L. 2011-412 reads as rewritten:
7 "SECTION 5. Notwithstanding Section 5.1(b) of S.L. 1998-132, the Secretary of
8 Environment and Natural Resources Environmental Quality shall grant a waiver to allow
9 additional connections to a bond-funded waterline within an area designated as WS-I or the
10 critical area of any area that has been designated as WS-II, WS-III, or WS-IV by the
11 Environmental Management Commission pursuant to G.S. 143-214.5, provided the design
12 capacity and size of the existing bond-funded waterline can accommodate the additional
13 connections and the purpose of the additional connection is for either of the following reasons:
14 (1) To address an existing threat to public health or water quality.
15 (2) To provide water to a habitable structure located on a lot zoned for a
16 single-family residence. residential use or mixed-use development. There is
17 no requirement that the habitable structure existed on the lot at the time of the
18 construction of the bond-funded waterline."
19 SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
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