NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 822

HOUSE BILL 1075

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WATER POLLUTION CONTROL LAWS TO CLARIFY THE AUTHORITY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF WATER AND AIR RESOURCES TO CLASSIFY WATERS FOR SCIENTIFIC OR RESEARCH USES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  General Statutes 143-214.1(d)(3) is amended by inserting after the word and punctuation "generation," and before the word "the" the words "scientific or research uses", so that said paragraph as so amended will read as follows:

"(3)      The uses and extent thereof which have been made, are being made, or may in the future be made, of such water for domestic consumption, bathing, fish or wildlife and their culture, industrial consumption, transportation, fire prevention, power generation, scientific or research uses, the disposal of sewage, industrial wastes and other wastes, or any other uses."

Sec. 2.  It is hereby declared to be the intent of this Act to clarify the authority of the North Carolina Board of Water and Air Resources to classify streams under the water pollution control laws for scientific or research uses. It is further declared to be the intent of this Act that the Board of Water and Air Resources may develop a supplemental classification of streams for scientific or research uses together with standards applicable to said classification, and that said classification may be assigned to any identified waters (whether previously classified or reclassified or proposed for reclassification) pursuant to the procedures prescribed by law for classification or reclassification of waters.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of June, 1969.