GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 761
AN ACT FORBIDDING THE PLACING OF SOLID NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTE FROM OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA WITHOUT PRIOR INSPECTION AND CERTIFICATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 130A-294(a) is amended by adding a new (4a) as follows:
"(4a) No permit shall be granted for any public or private sanitary landfill to receive solid non-radioactive waste generated outside the boundaries of North Carolina to be deposited, unless such waste has previously been inspected by the solid waste regulatory agency of that nation, state or territory, characterized in detail as to its contents and certified by that agency to be non-injurious to health and safety. The Commission shall adopt rules to implement this subsection."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 10th day of August, 1987.