DEQ-CFW_00022207

Allow the use of $1.3 million for permitting and implementation of alternative
technologies for in situ approaches to nutrient management in Falls Lake and
Jordan Lake;
begin by September 1, 2017; and
Submit an interim report no later than September 1 of each year the study and
trial, with a final report due no later than December 31, 2020.
q,ection 13.8(a) Dredging Study
The DWR shall study the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of the acquisition by
the State of North Carolina of one or more dredges. Recommendations for fiscal
-- The Department of Transportation and the Department of Environmental Quality
shall jointly perform a cost -benefit analysis of the State providing dredging
services versus the State utilizing private contractors to provide dredging
services. The findings ofthe analysis required, including any legislative
— Section 9 clarifies setbacks for permitted disposal systems.
— Section 13 amends existing buffers to exempt requirements for public safety.
— Section 14 exempts the Catawba River Basin Buffer rules on publicly owned
property that will be sued for walking trails.
— Section 15 directs the General Assembly's Fiscal Research Division to estimate
the value of property subject to the buffer rules with a report due by May 2018.
— Section 16 directs DWR to conduct a water quality sampling program for
nutrients along the mainstern of the Catawba River and include water quality
sampling for nutrients above, in, and below each major tributary of the Catawba
River. The report is due no later than October 1, 2018.

Local government riparian buffer uniformity, amends Jordan water supply
.4luffers to exempt requirements for public safety, and repeals the Catawba
WiLiffer rules.
-- Nutrient Management Regulatory Framework Revisions including adjusting rule
re'adoptiondates for Falls and Jordan Lakes.
-- Directs DEQ and the State Property Office to negotiate with federal authorities
for the state to assume responsibility for acquiring dredged material easement
sites for the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway between Beaufort Inlet and the Virginia
border.
DWR has worked with Dr. Detlef Knappe at NCSU to evaluate concentrations of 1,4-
dioxane in 2014-15 in the Cape Fear River, and we continue to work with local
governments on methods to reduce the introduction of the chemical into water
systems. Currently there is no certified wastewater laboratory test method so our
Water Sciences lab is developing a test method, which once approved, will be specified
in NPDES permit conditions for required monitoring. EPA has not set a Maximum
Contaminant Level (MCL) at this time but has established health screening information:
DWR is continuing work in this area with EPA to evaluate current concentrations of
perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluoroctanesulfonic acid (PFOA/PFOS) successor
chemicals (GenX) in the Cape Fear River, and assisting DHHS in the development of
initial health advisory levels along with federal agencies: EPA, Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). Earlier studies of concentrations conducted in the Cape Fear River by
Dr. Mei Sun and colleagues, including Dr. Knappe and EPA's National Exposure Research
Lab in RTP, NC, were published in the November 29, 2016 Environmental Science &
Technology Letters. Current sampling and analysis conducted in June —July 2017 will
supplement those results. There are limited health studies on some of the chemicals.