NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 929

SENATE BILL 994

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 143-215 RELATING TO EFFLUENT STANDARDS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 143-215, as it appears in the 1973 Interim Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding to the end thereof a new subsection (c) to read as follows:

"(c)       In adopting effluent standards and limitations the Board shall be guided by the same considerations and criteria set forth, from time to time, in federal law for the guidance of federal agencies administering the Federal Water Pollution Control Program. It is the intent of the General Assembly that the effluent standards and limitations adopted hereunder shall be no more restrictive than the most nearly applicable federal effluent standards and limitations."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of March, 1974.