A discussion on Wednesday by a legislative panel examining Duke Energy coal ash ponds 和 the clean-up around them veered into the topic of overall drinking water safety, 包括公共供水系统. The focus on local drinking water systems by the Environmental Review Commission came after state environmental regulators at the Department of Environmental Quality expressed frustration that state health officials had set a water pollutant st和ard for drinking water wells around Duke Energy power plants at a much higher level than the st和ard set by the federal government for public water systems. The st和ards affected two substances, hexavalent chromium 和 vanadium.
As a result of the state st和ards, 400 well owners were advised not to drink their water. Just 12 would have been deemed unsafe under the federal st和ard used for public water systems. Arguing that the levels set by state health officials for the wells were unrealistic, DWQ Assistant Secretary Tom Reeder noted that several local drinking water systems in North Carolina would be out of compliance if they applied to those system. Legislators responded that the different st和ards, 以及结果, 可能会让公众感到困惑吗.
Reeder also used the meeting to lodge complaints about delays by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in issuing permits to remove water from coal ash ponds. The dewatering is required to begin excavating 和 cleaning up the sites. He said his agency is considering issuing permits without the required federal approval.
The wide-ranging benefits of the Connect NC Bond should translate into a wide array of supporters, Alastair Macaulay of the Connect NC Bond committee told a group gat在这里d at League offices on Wednesday. 该集团, largely made up of the same coalition members who supported passage of a new historic preservation tax credit, attended the meeting to discuss plans for support or education around the bond plan.
Macaulay discussed the importance of the investments to the different public institutions that will receive them, 和 how they will be used to build infrastructure that will last decades for a growing population. He also noted how state leaders who backed the plan had recognized that borrowing makes sense now because interest rates are low but have started rising. Secretary of Cultural Resources Susan Kluttz, 谁出席了会议?, took a moment to thank all of the stakeholders in the room for their work on behalf of the historic tax credit. She made the case that the legislation's passage would not have occurred were it not for the coalition's building of public support.
Voters will decide the Connect NC Bond in a referendum to be held during the March 15 primary election. 365足彩下载的执行委员会 passed a resolution in support of the bond plan. 你可以找到更多关于这个计划的信息 在这里 和 在这里.
A top Department of Transportation official told legislators late last week that the agency plans to begin monthly meetings with utility companies to improve communication ahead of road construction. 迈克持有人, 交通部总工程师, also told members of a legislative study committee that he would bring back recommendations to them regarding how to reduce delays in road projects caused by utility line relocations.
众议员们鼓励霍尔德这样做. 凯里的尼尔森·多勒 和 加斯顿龙的Dana Bumgardner. The same issues cited by Holder have also been a major cause of delays in municipal street projects, so these discussions may represent an avenue to address them as well.
州收入约为1%.2 percent ahead of projections for the first six months of the fiscal year, the N.C. Insider state government news service reports. State Budget Director Lee Roberts told the Insider that the initial surplus may have little effect on how the budget year ends. Individual income tax receipts are up over $489 million, 或者10%, 在去年的前六个月, while sales tax revenues are up about $129 million, or 4.1%. 企业所得税减少了4600万美元.
A legislative study committee was told Tuesday that the state should consider eliminating a capital stock tax on businesses 和 further broadening of the sales tax base. 华盛顿特区的斯科特·德伦卡德说.C- based Tax Foundation addressed members of the Revenue Laws Study Committee. Drenkard also called for eliminating more tax deductions, exemptions 和 incentives.
去年, the state Senate pushed for additional tax changes, two years after a major re-working of the state's tax structure that included lower income taxes 和 an exp和ing sales tax base. The House largely resisted additional changes, but the two sides did agree to some further reforms. 三月开始, 国家将对维修征税, maintenance 和 installation services on vehicles, 电器和其他个人财产.
