(a)        The Water and Air Quality Account is established as an account within the Department. Revenue in the Account shall be applied to the costs of administering the programs for which the fees were collected. Revenue credited to the Account pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-449.43, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-449.125, and N.C. Gen. Stat. § 105-449.136 shall be used to administer the air quality program. Any funds credited to the Account from fees collected for laboratory facility certifications under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215.3(a)(10) that are not expended at the end of each fiscal year for the purposes for which these fees may be used under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215.3(a)(10) shall revert. Any other funds credited to the Account that are not expended at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert. Except for the following fees, all application fees and permit administration fees collected by the State for permits issued under Articles 21, 21A, 21B, and 38 of this Chapter shall be credited to the Account:

(1)        Fees collected under Part 2 of Article 21A and credited to the Oil or Other Hazardous Substances Pollution Protection Fund.

(2)        Fees credited to the Title V Account.

(3)        Repealed by Session Laws 2005-454, s. 7, effective January 1, 2006.

(4)        Fees collected under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215.28A.

(5)        Fees collected under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215.94C shall be credited to the Commercial Leaking Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund.

(6)        Fees collected under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215.3D for the following permits and certificates shall be credited to the General Fund for use by the Department to administer the program for which the fees were collected:

a.         Stormwater permits and certificates of general permit coverage authorized under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-214.7

b.         Permits to apply petroleum contaminated soil to land authorized under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215.1

(a1)      The total monies collected per year from fees for permits under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215.3(a)(1a), after deducting those monies collected under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215.3(a)(1d), shall not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the total budgets from all sources of environmental permitting and compliance programs within the Department. This subsection shall not be construed to relieve any person of the obligation to pay a fee established under this Article or Articles 21A, 21B, or 38 of this Chapter.

(b)        The Title V Account is established as a nonreverting account within the Department. Revenue in the Account shall be used for developing and implementing a permit program that meets the requirements of Title V. The Title V Account shall consist of fees collected pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215.3(a)(1d) and N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215.106A. Fees collected under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215.3(a)(1d) shall be used only to cover the direct and indirect costs required to develop and administer the Title V permit program, and fees collected under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215.106A shall be used only for the eligible expenses of the Title V program. Expenses of the ombudsman for the Small Business Stationary Source Technical and Environmental Compliance Assistance Program, support staff, equipment, legal services provided by the Attorney General, and contracts with consultants and program expenses listed in section 502(b)(3)(A) of Title V shall be included among Title V program expenses.

(b1)      The I & M Air Pollution Control Account is established as a nonreverting account within the Department. Fees transferred to the Division of Air Quality of the Department pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-183.7(c) shall be credited to the I & M Air Pollution Control Account and shall be applied to administering the air quality program.

(c)        The Department shall report to the Environmental Review Commission, the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources, and the Fiscal Research Division on the cost of the State’s environmental permitting programs contained within the Department on or before January 1 of each odd-numbered year. The report shall include, but is not limited to, fees set and established under this Article, fees collected under this Article, revenues received from other sources for environmental permitting and compliance programs, changes made in the fee schedule since the last report, anticipated revenues from all other sources, interest earned, and any other information requested by the General Assembly. The Department shall submit this report with the report required by N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-279.17 as a single report. ?(1987, c. 767, s. 2; 1989, c. 500, s. 121; c. 727, s. 218(104); 1989 (Reg. Sess., 1990), c. 976, s. 2; 1991, c. 552, s. 3; 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 1039, s. 12; 1993, c. 400, s. 14; 1995, c. 390, s. 28; 1995 (Reg. Sess., 1996), c. 743, s. 13; 1998-212, s. 29A.11(c); 2001-452, s. 2.4; 2001-474, s. 27; 2005-386, s. 8.1; 2005-454, s. 7; 2008-198, s. 11.2; 2011-145, s. 13.7; 2011-266, ss. 1.35(b), 3.3(b); 2014-120, s. 38(a); 2015-241, s. 14.16(d); 2017-10, s. 4.12(a); 2017-57, ss. 13.1, 14.1(i).)

Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 143-215.3A

  • air pollution: shall mean the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in such quantities and duration as is or tends to be injurious to human health or welfare, to animal or plant life or to property or that interferes with the enjoyment of life or property. See North Carolina General Statutes 143-213
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
  • Stormwater: means the flow of water which results from precipitation and which occurs immediately following rainfall or a snowmelt. See North Carolina General Statutes 143-213
  • Title V: means Title V of the 1990 amendments to the federal Clean Air Act (Pub. See North Carolina General Statutes 143-213
  • Title V Account: means the Account established in N. See North Carolina General Statutes 143-213
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