Appropriates $6,250,000 for 2025-26 from the General Fund to the Office of State Budget and Management for a directed grant to the North Carolina Coastal Federation, Inc., to be used in the specified amounts for construction of an education and event center on Bogue Sound, for the Living Shoreline Protection Program, and for a statewide oyster shell recycling program.

Appropriates $1 million in recurring funds for each year of the 2025-27 biennium from the General Fund to the Office of State Budget and Management for a directed grant to the North Carolina Coastal Federation, Inc., to support a permanent Abandoned and Derelict Vessel Removal Program.

Effective July 1, 2025.