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The measure, Senate Bill 346, now heads to the Senate’s Rules Committee.
Republican Sens. Bill Rabon of Brunswick County, Jim Burgin of Harnett, and Carl Ford of Stanley are primary sponsors. The bill allows an executive order to stand 10 days before it requires approval from the Council of State. That’s the 10-member body made up of each statewide elected executive branch official, including the lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and attorney general.
The bill also places an automatic end date on emergency executive orders, forcing them to expire after 45 days unless the General Assembly votes to extend them.
“It’s a simple bill dealing with an all-too-real situation in North Carolina,” Rabon said of S.B. 346. The bill giving the governor his current emergency powers was written decades ago, and not with a pandemic in mind, he said.
State Sen. Natasha Marcus - (D) NC - District 41 said.
Sen. Marcus said no one yet knows exactly how much gasoline has spilled. In its release, NCDEQ said it has given Colonial until April 26 to file an accurate report.
“Colonial is required to provide a revised Comprehensive Site Assessment (CSA) by April 26 in response to the February Notice of Continuing Violation, which identified 22 deficiencies in Colonial’s CSA and directed Colonial Pipeline to extend residential private well sampling radius an additional 500 feet,” the release said.
Sen. Marcus has also taken action, filing Senate Bill 549 which aims to improve pipeline safety, by providing funding to the NCDEQ to allow for state-level monitoring. As it stands currently, North Carolina relies on Colonial Pipeline for monitoring.
Listen • 1:22 Federal regulators have warned that the entire 5,500 mile length of the Colonial Pipeline could be a risk for gasoline spills like the one in Huntersville last August.
New mapping shows gasoline contamination from a spill on the Colonial Pipeline north of Charlotte last summer goes deeper into the soil than previously reported. That news comes as federal officials warn that similar leaks could happen elsewhere along the 5,500-mile pipeline from Texas to New Jersey.
At least 1.2 million gallons of gasoline spilled last August from a broken section of the pipeline east of downtown Huntersville. The leak was discovered by two teens who were riding all-terrain vehicles in the Oehler Nature Preserve, off Huntersville-Concord Road. It s the largest spill of its kind in North Carolina and one of the largest in the nation.
April 13. By Dave Yochum. UPDATED. Will local elections be held this November as scheduled? Maybe not. The NC State Board of Elections is saying North Carolina might need to delay elections because 2020 US Census reporting is behind schedule.
NC Sen. Natasha Marcus is asking town officials for feedback regarding whether there is a preference for a Cornelius municipal election to be held as scheduled this November or wait until 2022.
So far, three Cornelius commissioners Denis Bilodeau, Jim Duke and Michael Miltich have said they are in favor of postponing this year’s election. Mayor Woody Washam is also in favor of postponing.