Appropriates the following sums from the General Fund to the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for these listed purposes:  

• $1.71 million recurring funds for the 2024-2025 fiscal year to DEQ’s Division of Coastal Management (DCM) for two full-time positions to staff the Resilient Coastal Communities Program and to provide grant funding for specified projects;
• $470,000 recurring funds for the 2024-2025 fiscal year to DCM for five full-time positions in the Coastal Habitat Assessment Program;
• $990,000 recurring funds for the 2024-2025 fiscal year for six full-time positions to continue implementation of the Flood Resiliency Blueprint;
• $1.210 million recurring funds and $500,000 in nonrecurring funds for the 2024-2025 fiscal year for eight full-time positions pertaining to customer service, grant administration, and technical assistance to businesses;
• $600,000 recurring funds and $10,000 in nonrecurring funds to the Division of Marine Fisheries for the 2024-2025 fiscal year for five full-time marine patrol officer positions;
• $400,000 recurring funds and $550,000 in nonrecurring funds to the Division of Air Quality for the 2024-2025 fiscal year for three full-time positions to staff the mobile air quality monitoring unit;
• $3.15 million in nonrecurring funds for the 2024-2025 fiscal year to fund overtopping studies for all remaining high and intermediate hazard dams in the State;
• $1.5 million in nonrecurring funds for the 2024-2025 fiscal year to be used for the 10% cost-share required for Superfund cleanups on the National Priority List sites and to pay the operating and maintenance costs associated with those Superfund cleanups;
• $4,010,000 recurring funds and $590,000 in nonrecurring funds for the 2024-2025 fiscal year to staff 24 full-time positions to assist DEQ in addressing the emerging compounds (including PFAS) issue in the State;
• $2 billion in nonrecurring funds for the 2024-2025 fiscal year for the Water Infrastructure Fund to be allocated to the Drinking Water Reserve and the Wastewater Reserve to provide project construction grants for public water systems and wastewater systems. Specifies that the limits set forth in GS 159G-36(c) (concerning grant limits pertaining to water infrastructure) do not apply to grants awarded from these funds.

Effective July 1, 2024.