NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION
CHAPTER 1098
HOUSE BILL 1522
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES FOR SOIL MAPPING MATCHING GRANTS.
Whereas, adequate and accurate information concerning soil resources is essential in making sound economic growth decisions related to agriculture, transportation facility siting, economic development, recreational and other uses; and
Whereas, at the current rate of production, the State's soil would not be completely mapped until the end of the century; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) in each fiscal year of the 1977-79 biennium to the Department of Natural and Economic Resources to be used to match local government contributions for the production of soil maps.
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective on July 1, 1977.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.