A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to expand the type of development connections to water supply lines funded by the clean water and natural gas critical needs bond act of 1998.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section 5 of S.L. 2011‑412 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 5.  Notwithstanding Section 5.1(b) of S.L. 1998‑132, the Secretary of Environmental Quality shall grant a waiver to allow additional connections to a bond‑funded waterline within an area designated as WS‑I or the critical area of any area that has been designated as WS‑II, WS‑III, or WS‑IV by the Environmental Management Commission pursuant to G.S. 143‑214.5, provided the design capacity and size of the existing bond‑funded waterline can accommodate the additional connections and the purpose of the additional connection is for either of the following reasons:
(1)	To address an existing threat to public health or water quality.
(2)	To provide water to a structure located on a lot zoned for residential use or mixed‑use development. There is no requirement that the structure existed on the lot at the time of the construction of the bond‑funded waterline."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.