NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 784

SENATE BILL 876

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 143-215.107 RELATING TO AIR QUALITY STANDARDS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143-215.107, as it appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding to the end thereof a new subsection (f) to read as follows:

"(f)       In adopting air quality policies, rules, regulations and procedures, the Environmental Management Commission or any other State or local regulatory body shall be guided by the same standards, definitions, considerations and criteria set forth, from time to time, in federal law, rules or regulations for the guidance of federal, State or local agencies administering the Federal Clean Air Program."

It is the intent of the General Assembly that the air quality rules, regulations and procedures promulgated by the Environmental Management Commission or any other State or local regulatory body under the General Statutes of North Carolina shall be no more restrictive than those adopted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1975.