S257 - Appropriations Act of 2017. (SL 2017-57)

Overview: Sec. 12.9 of S.L. 2017-57 allows the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to use unencumbered and unexpended funds allocated to the North Carolina Forest Service by the Disaster Recovery Act of 2016 (S.L. 2016-124) to purchase and remove swine operations located in the 100-year floodplain in any county eligible for funding under S.L. 2016-124. S.L. 2016-124 appropriated $25,500,000 to the North Carolina Forest Service for repairs and operational expenses at Claridge Nursery in Wayne County, wildfire response, and disaster-related timber restoration.

The "100-year floodplain" means any area subject to inundation by the one percent (1%) annual chance flood event, as indicated on the most recent Flood Insurance Rate Map prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the National Flood Insurance Program.

This section became effective July 1, 2017.