NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 564

SENATE BILL 574

AN ACT TO AMEND THE SEDIMENTATION POLLUTION CONTROL ACT TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE PROVISION OF GROUND COVER AND REQUIRE THAT SUFFICIENT CONTROL DEVICES BE INSTALLED TO INSURE THAT ALL SEDIMENT SHALL BE CONFINED WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CONSTRUCTION SITE DURING ACTIVE CONSTRUCTION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 113A-57(3) as the same appears in 1978 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes is rewritten to read as follows:

"(3)      Whenever land-disturbing activity is undertaken on a tract comprising more than one acre, if more than one contiguous acre is uncovered, the person conducting the land-disturbing activity shall install such sedimentation and erosion control devices and practices as are sufficient to retain the sediment generated by the land-disturbing activity within the boundaries of the tract during construction upon and development of said tract, and shall plant or otherwise provide a permanent ground cover sufficient to restrain erosion after completion of construction or development within a time period to be adopted by regulation by the Commission."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of May, 1979.