NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 982

HOUSE BILL 867

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO IMPROVE NAVIGATION IN BROAD CREEK IN BEAUFORT COUNTY.

Whereas, Broad Creek in Beaufort County is currently a very important recreational boating area which contributes a great deal to the economy of Beaufort County and to the State; and

Whereas, Broad Creek is used by persons residing throughout the State as a center of recreational boating activity, and is a particularly important area for sailboat racing; and

Whereas, the maintenance of recreational boating access facilities is an incentive in attracting industry to the State and in particular to the eastern part of the State; and

Whereas, the current depth of Broad Creek is insufficient to support the type of navigation that is necessary to maintain and support the important recreational boating activity on Broad Creek; and

Whereas, the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners has agreed to sponsor a project to improve navigation in Broad Creek from a point adjacent to the Boy Scouts of America campsite to the now existing channel in the Pamlico River and has secured appropriate State and federal permits authorizing such a project; and

Whereas, the State through the Department of Natural and Economic Resources is authorized to financially participate in joint State-local navigational projects; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Natural and Economic Resources the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the purpose of improving navigation in Broad Creek in Beaufort County as described in this act.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.