GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

 

 

SESSION LAW 2007-185

HOUSE BILL 1370

 

 

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THAT THE HIGH-UNIT-COST THRESHOLD DOES NOT APPLY TO PLANNING GRANTS AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS MADE BY THE CLEAN WATER MANAGEMENT TRUST FUND FOR WASTEWATER COLLECTION SYSTEMS AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 113A-254(d) reads as rewritten:

"(d)      Wastewater Limits. - A wastewater collection system project or a wastewater treatment works project is eligible for a grant under this Article only if it is a high-unit-cost project, as defined in G.S. 159G-20. A planning grant or a technical assistance grant for a regional wastewater collection system or a regional wastewater treatment works is not subject to the high-unit-cost threshold. A grant made under this Article for a wastewater collection system project or a wastewater treatment works project is subject to the cost limits and recipient limits set in G.S. 159G-36 for a grant awarded from the Wastewater Reserve."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to applications for planning grants and technical assistance grants received by the Clean Water Management Trust Fund on or after 1 January 2007.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of June, 2007.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 8:18 a.m. this 5th day of July, 2007