Bill Text: NC S766 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: DEQ Study Rip. Buffers for Intermit. Streams

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-28 - Ref To Com On Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources [S766 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2015-S766-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

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SENATE BILL 766

 

 

Short Title:      DEQ Study Rip. Buffers for Intermit. Streams.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senators Wade, Brock, B. Jackson (Primary Sponsors);  and Rabin.
Referred to:	Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources

April 28, 2016

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT TO DIRECT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY TO STUDY RIPARIAN BUFFER REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERMITTENT STREAMS, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW COMMISSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The Department of Environmental Quality shall study whether the size of riparian buffers required for intermittent streams should be adjusted and whether the allowable activities within the buffers should be modified. The Department shall report the results of the study, including any recommendations, to the Environmental Review Commission no later than December 1, 2016.

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.