NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1979 SESSION
CHAPTER 998
HOUSE BILL 1070
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO CONTINUE NORTH CAROLINA'S INVOLVEMENT IN RESEARCH AT THE SITE OF THE USS MONITOR.
Whereas, in the summer of 1973 the site of the USS Monitor was located near Cape Hatteras off the coast of North Carolina in one of the most sophisticated underwater search operations undertaken to that time; and
Whereas, since the earliest attempts to locate the Monitor until the present time North Carolina has played a prominent role in all major research undertaken at the site and all other activities to protect the Monitor for the future enjoyment of North Carolinians and all Americans including the nomination of the site to become the nation's first Marine Sanctuary in 1974; and
Whereas, North Carolina currently plays a prominent role in the management and development of the site of the Monitor under the terms of an agreement with the federal government; and
Whereas, as a part of this management role North Carolina must develop a preservation laboratory capable of analyzing and preserving artifacts which will be brought from the Monitor site during the summer of 1979; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources for each of the fiscal years 1979-80 and 1980-81, the sum of thirty thousand four hundred dollars ($30,400) for the purpose of continuing the State's involvement in research at the site of the USS Monitor.
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.