Bill > S434

This bill makes several changes to environmental laws in North Carolina: 1. It repeals the requirement for a permit to transfer, treat, process, store, or dispose of yard waste, though facilities handling yard waste must still comply with other relevant laws and regulations. 2. It repeals the state's ban on single-use plastic bags. 3. It limits the ability of local governments to impose riparian buffer requirements that exceed state or federal standards, though it allows existing local buffer requirements to remain in place until relevant permits expire. 4. It directs the Environmental Management Commission to amend its rules to exempt publicly owned spaces where buffers pose a public safety risk. 5. It allows the Marine Fisheries Commission to establish "Shellfish Aquaculture Enterprise Areas" to facilitate shellfish farming opportunities. 6. It makes various clarifying changes to laws related to transplanting oysters and clams, selling fish, and river herring fisheries management. 7. It authorizes the state to negotiate with the federal government to acquire dredged material disposal easements for the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. 8. It makes revisions to the timeline and process for reviewing and updating nutrient management strategies for Falls Lake and Jordan Lake.

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