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required to follow the procedures in Chapter
150B of the General Statutes regarding rule
making. This includes providing public
notice of proposed rules, public hearings on
the proposed rules, and action by the CPH
to adopt final rules. Once final rules are
adopted, they are required to be submitted
to the Rules Review Commission (“RRC”).
The RRC reviews adopted rules to ensure
that the rules are within the authority
delegated to the agency by the General
Assembly, are clear and unambiguous, and
that the rules are adopted in accordance
with procedures in Chapter 150B. If the
RRC receives timely objections from 10
or more persons to rules submitted to it
for review, those rules do not become
effective until there is an opportunity for
a bill disapproving the rules to be filed in
the General Assembly in which case the
rules become effective or die depending
on whether such a bill becomes law or not.
If less than 10 objections are received, the
rules generally become effective on the
date specified in the rules once the RRC
approves the rules.”
You can be assured that the North Carolina
Rural Water Association will play an
important role in this process and will
represent the best interests of our member
systems as we have in the past as various
rules have been enacted. The requirements
must be such that systems can reasonably
be expected to meet them in a timely
fashion. Please contact me at 919-812-5500
or by e-mail,
, if
you have any comments about the process
or if you have any questions.
for use by suppliers of water in creating the
SWPP, schedules for creating a SWPP and
implementing the mandatory provisions
of the SWPP, for review and update of
the SWPP by suppliers of water, and for
reporting requirements. The CPH is required
by this new law to provide an interim report
to the Environmental Review Commission
(“ERC”) not later than April 1, 2015,
regarding its progress in implementing the
requirements of this new law, and to prepare
a final report to the ERC within six months
of adopting final rules implementing this
new law. There is no deadline in this new
law for proposing or adopting final rules.
In proposing and adopting rules to
implement this new law, the CPH will be
“You can be assured that the
North Carolina Rural Water
Association will play an important
role in this process and will
represent the best interests of our
member systems as we have in
the past as various rules have
been enacted.”
