N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-215.70: Secretary of Environmental Quality authorized to accept applications.

The Secretary is authorized to accept applications for grants for nonfederal costs relating to water resources development projects from units of local government sponsoring such projects, except that this shall not include small watershed projects reviewed by the State Soil and Water Conservation Commission pursuant to G.S. 139-55. (1979, c. 1046, s. 1; 1987, c. 827, s. 154; 1989, c. 727, s. 218(109); 1997-443, s. 11A.119(a); 2015-241, s. 14.30(v).)