Action appears likely in the North Carolina General Assembly Wednesday on two measures that stand to dramatically rewrite coastal policy.
The Senate Agriculture, Energy, and the Environment Committee, when it meets at 9 a.m. Wednesday, is expected to take up Senate Bill 1009, which would repeal the state’s four-decade-old ban on ocean shoreline hardened structures and an amended Senate Bill 1001, a coastal regulatory reform bill that would clear the way for state taxpayer funding of terminal groin construction.
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The session will be livestreamed.
Another related bill, Senate Bill 1008, did not appear as of publication on Tuesday on the legislative calendar.
