General assembly of north carolina

PART XII. Department of Environment and Natural Resources
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FUND CLOSING FEE CONFORMING CHANGES

SECTION 12.01. G.S. 159G 24 reads as rewritten:

"§ 159G 24. Fee imposed on a loan or grant from Wastewater Reserve or Drinking Water Reserve.Water Infrastructure Fund.

(a) Amount. – A loan awarded from the Wastewater Reserve or the Drinking Water Reserve Water Infrastructure Fund is subject to a fee of two and one half percent (2 ½%)(2%) of the loan. A grant awarded from the Wastewater Reserve or the Drinking Water Reserve Water Infrastructure Fund is subject to a fee of one and one half percent (1 ½%) of the grant. The fee is payable when a loan or grant is awarded.

(b) Departmental Receipt. – The fee on a loan from the Wastewater Reserve or the Drinking Water Reserve Water Infrastructure Fund is a departmental receipt and must be applied to the Department's and the Local Government Commission's costs in administering loans from these Reserves. The Department and the Local Government Commission must determine how to allocate the fee receipts between their agencies. The fee on a grant from the Wastewater Reserve or the Drinking Water Reserve Water Infrastructure Fund is a departmental receipt of the Department and must be applied to the Department's costs in administering grants from these Reserves."
DENR POSITIONS TO STAFF FOSSIL FUEL OVERSIGHT BODY

SECTION 12.1. Should Senate Bill 820 of the 2012 Regular Session of the General Assembly become law and require the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to provide staff to the Mining and Energy Commission, then the Department may fund staff positions using savings from reclassifying and consolidating salaries, benefits, and associated operating costs from vacant positions and shall fill these reclassified and consolidated positions in a timely manner in order to provide support for the Mining and Energy Commission.

DENR TO CENTRALIZE OVERSIGHT OF ITS REGIONAL OFFICES

SECTION 12.2.(a) The Department of Environment and Natural Resources shall centralize and expand its oversight of the Department's regional offices by taking the following actions:

(1) The Department shall create a mission statement for the regional offices.

(2) In order to gather comparative data across the regional offices measuring their performance in carrying out their mission, the Department shall expand its existing performance measures pertinent to customer service delivery and process consistency. The expanded performance measures shall include timelines and milestones.

(3) The Department shall implement a new customer survey during the 2012 2013 fiscal year and use the findings of the survey to craft future goals for addressing customer service concerns. In order to consistently track customer service data, the survey shall be repeated every other year.

(4) The Department shall conduct a review of its regional offices and divisions to identify best practices for ensuring consistency across the Department and create a plan for implementing those best practices across regional offices and divisions.

SECTION 12.2.(b) The Department shall report no later than February 1, 2013, to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Natural and Economic Resources, the Senate Appropriations Committee on Natural and Economic Resources, and the Fiscal Research Division regarding (i) its progress, findings, and recommendations regarding the requirements of this section and (ii) its progress in establishing and implementing findings and recommendations regarding its operations from the public listening sessions conducted by the Department in 2011.
DRINKING WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND