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NC S237
Bill
AI Summary
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Appropriates $2,000,000 in nonrecurring funds for the 2023-2024 fiscal year to the Agriculture Cost Share Program for Nonpoint Source Pollution Control
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Funds target farmers in the Upper French Broad River watershed across Transylvania, Henderson, Buncombe, and Madison Counties to install fences, alternative livestock watering systems, pasture management, and other livestock exclusion measures
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Addresses bacterial contamination and sedimentation issues that led to the Department of Environmental Quality designating 19 miles of the Upper French Broad River as impaired in 2022
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Requires applicants to demonstrate that proposed measures would mitigate or prevent stream impacts from livestock in or adjacent to surface waters in the Upper French Broad River basin
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Becomes effective July 1, 2023
Legislative Description
Ag Cost-Share Funds/French Broad
Agriculture; Animals; Appropriations; Budgeting; Counties; Environment; Funding; Grants; Lakes & Rivers; Livestock & Poultry; Lo
Last Action
Ref to Appropriations/Base Budget. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate
3/9/2023