Directs the specified departments and offices to work jointly to design and implement a central database system as the title indicates. Provides that the central database system (system) is to consolidate and integrate statewide information on water and wastewater infrastructure in an accessible and user-friendly format. Requires that the system be designed so that it can be maintained and updated regularly. Directs that the system be implemented no later than July 1, 2013. Specifies the statewide information to be included in the system. Directs the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to be the lead agency in developing the central database system. Provides that DENR may work, at its discretion, with the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, other state agencies, and other interested stakeholders.
Requires DENR to make regular progress reports on the development of the system to the Environmental Review Commission, the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, and the Fiscal Research Division of the General Assembly. Directs DENR to submit its first progress report no later than October 15, 2011, its second no later than January 15, 2012, and its final progress report no later than March 15, 2012. Provides guidelines as to the contents of the required progress reports. Requires the final progress report to include the time frame for implementing the central database system during the 2012-13 fiscal year. Effective July 1, 2011.