G.S. ch. 143, art. 21
G.S. ch. 143, art. 21
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section143-211. Declaration of public policy.section143-212. Definitions.section143-213. Definitions.section143-214. Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 1262, s. 23.section143-214.1. Water; water quality standards and classifications; duties of Commission.section143-214.1A. Water quality certification requirements for certain projects.section143-214.2. Prohibited discharges.section143-214.2A. Prohibited disposal of medical waste.section143-214.2B. Storage of waste on vessels.section143-214.3. Revision to water quality standard.section143-214.4. Certain cleaning agents containing phosphorus prohibited.section143-214.5. Water supply watershed protection.section143-214.6. Repealed by Session Laws 2004-195, s. 3.1, effective August 17, 2004.section143-214.7. Stormwater runoff rules and programs.section143-214.7A. Stormwater control best management practices.section143-214.7B. Repealed by Session Laws 2023-134, s. 12.14(q), effective July 1, 2023.section143-214.7C. Prohibit the requirement of mitigation for certain impacts; establish threshold for mitigation of impacts to streams.section143-214.7D. Limitations on built-upon area requirements.section143-214.8. Division of Mitigation Services: established.section143-214.9. Division of Mitigation Services: purposes.section143-214.10. Division of Mitigation Services: development and implementation of basinwide restoration plans.section143-214.11. Division of Mitigation Services: compensatory mitigation.section143-214.11A. Flood storage capacity restoration and enhancement.section143-214.12. Division of Mitigation Services: Ecosystem Restoration Fund.section143-214.13. Division of Mitigation Services: reporting requirement.section143-214.14. Cooperative State-local coalition water quality protection plans.section143-214.15. Compensatory mitigation for diverse habitats.section143-214.20. Riparian Buffer Protection Program: Alternatives to maintaining riparian buffers; compensatory mitigation fees.section143-214.21. Riparian Buffer Protection Program: Riparian Buffer Restoration Fund.section143-214.22. Riparian Buffer Protection Program: Department may accept donations of real property.section143-214.23. Riparian Buffer Protection Program: Delegation of riparian buffer protection requirements to local governments.section143-214.23A. Limitations on local government riparian buffer requirements.section143-214.24. Riparian Buffer Protection Program: Coordination with River Basin Associations.section143-214.25. Expired.section143-214.25A. Riparian Buffer Protection Program: Surface Water Identification Training and Certification Program.section143-214.26. Nutrient offset credits.section143-215. Effluent standards or limitations.section143-215.1. Control of sources of water pollution; permits required.section143-215.1A. Closed-loop groundwater remediation systems allowed.section143-215.1B. Extension of date for compliance with nitrogen and phosphorus discharge limits.section143-215.1C. Report to wastewater system customers on system performance; report discharge of untreated wastewater to the Department; publication of notice of discharge of untreated wastewater and waste.section143-215.2. Special orders.section143-215.2A. Relief for contaminated private drinking water wells.section143-215.3. General powers of Commission and Department; auxiliary powers.section143-215.3A. Water and Air Quality Account; use of application and permit fees; Title V Account; I & M Air Pollution Control Account; reports.section143-215.3B. Repealed by Session Laws, 2005-454, s. 8, effective January 1, 2006.section143-215.3C. Confidential information protected.section143-215.3D. Fee schedule for water quality permits.section143-215.3E. Expired December 31, 2020.section143-215.4. Mailing list for rules; procedures for public input; form of order or decision; seal; official notice.section143-215.5. Judicial review.section143-215.6. Recodified as §§ 143-215.6A through 143-215.6C.section143-215.6A. Enforcement procedures: civil penalties.section143-215.6B. Enforcement procedures: criminal penalties.section143-215.6C. Enforcement procedures; injunctive relief.section143-215.6D. Additional requirements applicable to certain municipal wastewater treatment facilities.section143-215.6E. Repealed by Session Laws 2026-11, s. 4, effective June 22, 2026.section143-215.7. Effect on laws applicable to public water supplies and the sanitary disposal of sewage.section143-215.8. Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 698, s. 13.section143-215.8A. Planning.section143-215.8B. Basinwide water resources management plans.section143-215.8C. Repealed by Session Laws 2005-386, s. 2.1, effective December 1, 2005.section143-215.8D. North Carolina Water Quality Workgroup; Rivernet.section143-215.9. Restrictions on authority of the Commission.section143-215.9A. Reports.section143-215.9B. Systemwide municipal and domestic wastewater collection system permit program report.section143-215.9C. Use of certain types of culverts allowed.section143-215.9D. Agricultural operation investigations confidential.section143-215.9E. Initial consideration of complaint.section143-215.10. Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 1262, s. 23.section143-215.10A. Legislative findings and intent.section143-215.10B. Definitions.section143-215.10C. Applications and permits.section143-215.10D. Operations review.section143-215.10E. Violations requiring immediate notification.section143-215.10F. Inspections.section143-215.10G. Fees for animal waste management systems.section143-215.10H. Swine integrator registration.section143-215.10I. Performance standards for animal waste management systems that serve swine farms; lagoon and sprayfield systems prohibited.section143-215.10J. Reserved for future codification purposes.section143-215.10K. Reserved for future codification purposes.section143-215.10L. Reserved for future codification purposes.section143-215.10M. Reports.section143-215.11. Short title.section143-215.12. Declaration of purpose.section143-215.13. Declaration of capacity use areas.section143-215.14. Rules within capacity use areas; scope and procedures.section143-215.15. Permits for water use within capacity use areas - Procedures.section143-215.16. Permits for water use within capacity use areas - duration, transfer, reporting, measurement, present use, fees and penalties.section143-215.17. Enforcement procedures.section143-215.18. Map or description of boundaries of capacity use areas.section143-215.19. Administrative inspection; reports.section143-215.20. Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 827, s. 173.section143-215.21. Definitions.section143-215.22. Law of riparian rights not changed.section143-215.22A. Water withdrawal policy; remedies.section143-215.22B. Roanoke River Basin water rights.section143-215.22G. Definitions.section143-215.22H. Registration of water withdrawals and transfers required.section143-215.22I. Repealed by Session Laws 2007-518, s. 2, effective August 31, 2007, and applicable to any petition for a certificate for a transfer of surface water from one river basin to another river basin for which preparation of an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement has begun on or after August 31, 2007.section143-215.22J. Repealed by Session Laws 2004-195, s. 3.1, effective August 17, 2004.section143-215.22K. Repealed by Session Laws 2004-195, s. 3.1, effective August 17, 2004.section143-215.22L. Regulation of surface water transfers.section143-215.23. Short title.section143-215.24. Declaration of purpose.section143-215.25. Definitions.section143-215.25A. Exempt dams.section143-215.26. Construction of dams.section143-215.27. Repair, alteration, or removal of dam.section143-215.27A. Closure of coal combustion residuals surface impoundments to render such facilities exempt from the North Carolina Dam Safety Law of 1967.section143-215.28. Action by Commission upon applications.section143-215.28A. Application fees.section143-215.29. Supervision by qualified engineers; reports and modification during work.section143-215.30. Notice of completion; certification of final approval; notice of transfer.section143-215.31. Supervision over maintenance and operation of dams.section143-215.32. Inspection of dams.section143-215.32A. Dam Safety Emergency Fund.section143-215.32B. Dam Safety Grant Fund.section143-215.33. Administrative hearing.section143-215.34. Investigations by Department; employment of consultants.section143-215.35. Liability for damages.section143-215.36. Enforcement procedures.section143-215.37. Rights of investigation, entry, access, and inspection.section143-215.38. Short title.section143-215.39. Public policy.section143-215.40. Resolutions and ordinances assuring local cooperation.section143-215.41. Items of cooperation to which localities and the State may bind themselves.section143-215.42. Acquisition of lands.section143-215.43. Additional powers.section143-215.44. Right of withdrawal.section143-215.45. Transfer of right of withdrawal.section143-215.46. Exercise of right of withdrawal.section143-215.47. Effect of right of withdrawal on discharges of water.section143-215.48. Determining streamflows.section143-215.49. Right of withdrawal for use in community water supply.section143-215.50. Interpretation with other statutes.section143-215.51. Purposes.section143-215.52. Definitions.section143-215.53. Repealed by Session Laws 2000-150, s. 1.section143-215.54. Regulation of flood hazard areas; prohibited uses.section143-215.54A. Minimum standards for ordinances; variances for prohibited uses.section143-215.55. Acquisition of existing structures.section143-215.56. Delineation of flood hazard areas and 100-year floodplains; powers of Department; powers of local governments and of the Department.section143-215.56A. Floodplain Mapping Fund.section143-215.57. Procedures in issuing permits.section143-215.57A. Certain airport projects deemed permitted.section143-215.58. Violations and penalties.section143-215.59. Other approvals required.section143-215.60. Liability for damages.section143-215.61. Floodplain management.section143-215.62. Revolving fund established; conditions and procedures.section143-215.63. Short title.section143-215.64. Purpose.section143-215.65. Reports required.section143-215.66. Monitoring required.section143-215.67. Acceptance of wastes to disposal systems and air-cleaning devices.section143-215.68. Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 827, s. 188.section143-215.69. Enforcement procedures.section143-215.70. Secretary of Environmental Quality authorized to accept applications.section143-215.71. Purposes for which grants may be requested.section143-215.72. Review of applications.section143-215.73. Recommendation and disbursal of grants.section143-215.73A. Water Resources Development Plan.section143-215.73B. Water resources development grants administration.section143-215.73C. Reserved for future codification purposes.section143-215.73D. Reserved for future codification purposes.section143-215.73E. Reserved for future codification purposes.section143-215.73F. Shallow Draft Navigation Channel Dredging and Aquatic Weed Fund.section143-215.73J. Deep Draft Navigation Channel Dredging and Maintenance Fund.section143-215.73M. Coastal Storm Damage Mitigation Fund.section143-215.74F. Program authorized.section143-215.74G. Applications.section143-215.74I. Projects.section143-215.74J. Reserved for future codification purposes.section143-215.74K. Reserved for future codification purposes.section143-215.74L. Reserved for future codification purposes.section143-215.74M. Recodified as Article 73 of Chapter 106, G.S. 106-860, by Session Laws 2011-145, s. 13.22A(x), effective July 1, 2011.section143-215.74N. Definitions.section143-215.74O. Encapsulation and design requirements for submersible polystyrene devices.section143-215.74P. Polystyrene containment requirement for construction and maintenance activities.section143-215.74Q. Requirements for polystyrene foam on fuel floats.section143-215.74R. Prohibited sales.section143-215.74S. Rulemaking authority.section143.215.74H. Assistance.
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