Bill Summary for S 613 (2023-2024)

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Apr 18 2023

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View NCGA Bill Details2023-2024 Session
Senate Bill 613 (Public) Filed Wednesday, April 5, 2023
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A TWENTY-FIVE-FOOT BUFFER FOR CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN PROXIMITY TO STREAMS CLASSIFIED AS TROUT WATERS.
Intro. by Moffitt, B. Newton, Rabon.

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Senate committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. 

Revises the provisions of proposed GS 113A-52.01(b), now more specifically requiring waters that have been classified as trout waters by the Environmental Management Commission to have an undisturbed, vegetated buffer zone 25-feet wide where agricultural related land-disturbing activities defined under GS 113A-52.01(a)(1) are prohibited (previously required such activities that are located adjacent to classified trout waters to have an undisturbed, vegetated buffer zone 25 feet wide; did not explicitly prohibit the activities described in subdivision (a)(1) in the buffer zone).