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H1189 [Filed]
Subject: H1189 [Filed]
From: John Hennessy <john hennessy@ncmail net>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10 42 28 -0400
To: Brian Wrenn <Brian Wrenn@ncmail net>
FYI Could affect North Shore Road project
http //www nclea net/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/Hll89v0 html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2005
H
D
HOUSE DRH30184-LH-183 (04/06)
Short Title: Fontana Lake Protection.
Sponsors- I Representative Haire.
Referred to
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROTECT FONTANA LAKE AND THE OUTSTANDING
RESOURCE WATERS DRAINING TO FONTANA LAKE.
Whereas, Fontana Lake in Graham and Swain Counties provides
drinking water and over $4,700,000 in annual recreational benefits to the
citizens of North Carolina; and
Whereas, Graham and Swain Counties have adopted ordinances to
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require all houseboats on Fontana Lake to have permanent toilets and
permanent wastewater holding tanks to protect public health and water
quality, and
Whereas, Graham and Swain Counties, with financial assistance
from the Clean Water Management Trust Fund, Appalachian Regional
Commission, and Tennessee Valley Authority, are currently investing
$738,200 to provide facilities to pump and treat wastewater from the
houseboats on Fontana Lake, and
Whereas, Swain County and Bryson City are currently investing
$253,550 to remove failing septic tanks on Bryson Branch, a tributary of the
Tuckaseegee River, upstream from Fontana Lake, and
Whereas, Forney, Chambers, Hazel, and Eagle Creeks originate in
the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and drain to Fontana Lake, and
Whereas, Hazel and Eagle Creeks are classified as drinking water
supply waters, and
Whereas, Forney, Chambers, Hazel, and Eagle Creeks have
excellent water quality, are classified as Wild Trout Waters, provide habitat
for federally and State listed endangered species, and are in fact unique and
special waters of exceptional State and National recreational and ecological
significance which require special protection to maintain their existing uses;
and
Whereas, Forney, Chambers, Hazel, and Eagle Creeks qualify to be
classified as outstanding resource waters, and
Whereas, Forney, Chambers, Hazel, and Eagle Creeks are
renowned for exceptional trout fishing in the Eastern United States and have
attracted notable anglers including author Horace Kephart, Governor Luther
Hodges, United States Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, Wildlife
Resources Commissioner T N. Massie and others, Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts
SECTION 1. The Environmental Management Commission shall
classify Forney, Chambers, Hazel, and Eagle Creeks from their headwaters to
Fontana Lake as outstanding resource waters by January 1, 2006.
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding G.S. 150B-21.1, the
Environmental Management Commission shall adopt temporary rules to
classify Forney, Chambers, Hazel, and Eagle Creeks from their headwaters to
Fontana Lake as outstanding resource waters by October 1, 2005.
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