GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

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HOUSE DRH90017-TF-1  (12/13)

 

 

 

Short Title:        Environmental Technical Corrections 2011.

(Public)

Sponsors:

Representatives Samuelson and McElraft (Primary Sponsors).

Referred to:

 

 

 

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT To make clarifying, conforming, and technical amendments to various laws related to the environment, ENERGY, AND NATURAL RESOURCES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.(a)  G.S. 143B-344.37(b)(1) reads as rewritten:

"§ 143B-344.37.  (Expires June 30, 2016) North Carolina Sustainable Communities Grant Fund.

(b)        Purposes. - Funds in the North Carolina Sustainable Communities Grant Fund shall be used, as available, to provide funding to regional bodies, cities, or counties to improve regional planning efforts that integrate housing and transportation decisions, to increase the capacity to improve land use and zoning and to provide up to fifty percent (50%) of any required local matching funds for recipients of Federal Sustainable Communities Planning Grants and any other federal grants related to sustainable development and requiring local matching funds. In order to receive funds under this section, regions must meet all of the following requirements:

(1)        The regional body, city, or county is a part of a regional sustainable development partnership that includes any of the metro regions as defined in G.S. 143B-344.38(b).G.S. 143B-344.38(c). Partnerships may also include any Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Regional Planning Organizations, regional transit agencies, and representation from involved State agencies.

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SECTION 1.(b)  G.S. 143B-344.38 reads as rewritten:

"§ 143B-344.38.  (Expires June 30, 2016) North Carolina Sustainable Communities Task Force - reports.

(a)        Beginning in 2011, the Task Force shall report to the Governor, the chairs of the House Commerce, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship Committee House Committee on Commerce and Job Development, and the Senate Commerce Committee, and the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations no later than October 1 each year. The report shall include the following elements:

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(b)        Prior to awarding any funding under G.S. 143B-344.37 and no later than February 1, 2011, the Task Force shall report to the House Commerce, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship CommitteeHouse Committee on Commerce and Job Development and the Senate Commerce Committee regarding the sustainable practices scoring system developed in accordance with G.S. 143B-344.35(7).

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SECTION 2.  G.S. 143B-432(a) reads as rewritten:

"§ 143B-432.  Transfers to Department of Commerce.

(a)        The Division of Economic Development of the Department of Natural and Economic Resources, the Science and Technology Committee of the Department of Natural and Economic Resources, and the Science and Technology Research Center of the Department of Natural and Economic Resources Resources, and the Western North Carolina Public Lands Council of the Department of Natural and Economic Resources are each hereby transferred to the Department of Commerce by a Type I transfer, as defined in G.S. 143A-6."

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.