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The
Evans
Report
By
- Charles D. Evans
The pace of the 1963 Session
of the Genera] Assembly con
tinues to gain momentum as
we move into the sixth week
of the Session. Most all of the
committees in the House are
now meeting on a regular
basis to consider the bills that
have been introduced by
various members of the
General Assembly. If this Ses
sion is anything like the
previous ones in which I have
served, this pace will gradual
ly increase as we move fur
ther into the long Session.
I continue to receive a
tremendous amount of cor
respondence concerning the
proposed revisions to the laws
dealing with drinking drivers.
As you know, the Judiciary 111
Committee in the House, of
which I am vice chairman,
continues to consider the bill
in its regular meeting ses
sions of twice a week in addi
tion to special sessions. Also
the chairman of the Judiciary
111 Committee, Rep. Martin
Lancaster of Wayne County,
has appointed me as chair
man of a subcommittee to
consider specifically the
Dram Shop Provisions of the
proposals. I am working hard
on the Dram Shop Provisions
to hopefully insure that the ef
fected establishments are
treated fairly and that an
unreasonable burden is not
placed upon them.
Gov. Hunt considers the
Dram Shop Provision to be a
very important part of the
overall comprehensive
package dealing with drink
ing drivers. There have been
some rather important
changes in the original pro
posal concerning the Dram
Shop Provision and I expect
that there may be some more
before the final version is con
sidered by the House of
Representatives. I welcome
any comments dealing with
the Dram Shop Provision in
particular and any other com
ments concerning the other
proposals concerning drink
ing drivers.
I would like to devote the re
mainder of this legislative
report to the subject of the
Coastal Area Management
Act. As a result of a resolution
which was passed by the 1981
General Assembly, the
Legislative Research Com
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mission of our General
Assembly authorized a study
to be undertaken on the
various aspects of the Coastal
Area Management Act which
was passed by the General
Assembly in 1974. As many of
you already know, it covers
the 20 coastal counties of our
state, including most of the
counties of the First House
District. During the commit
tee’s deliberations, and as a
result of additional funds that
were appropriated to our
Study Commission, we were
able to hold several public
hearings in the coastal area to
hear from interested parties
concerning the Coastal Area
Management Act.
Sen. Melvin Daniels of Pas
quotank County and I served
as co-chairmen of this Study
Commission. As a result of
our committee’s deliberation
and as a result of the input we
received at the public hear
ings held in Wilmington,
Morehead City, and Manteo,
our Study Commission
recommended 13 suggestions
for legislation during the 1983
Session. These 13 bills,
designated House Bills
220-232, were filed in the
House last week. They have
been sent to the House Com
mittee on Natural &
Economic Resources for
consideration.
A brief explanation of these
bills, I think, will be infor
mative and interesting
because the Coastal Area
Management Act does affect,
in some situation, what we
can do with our land in the
coastal area. Several of the
bills are somewhat technical
in nature, primarily because
the Act itself is rather
technical in nature of necessi
ty. The members of the Study
Commission believe that the
very popular ocean beach ac
cess program should be ex
tended to include estaurine
water beaches as well as
ocean beaches. This program
has been very popular
because the State has made
money available for purchase
of properties that are deemed
desirable and important for
public beach access and also
can be used particularly for
the lands that may have been
adversely affected by the
State regulations. This bill
would allow estuarhw water
beach land similarly effected
to be acquired by the State
assuming that there are
monies available.
Another one of the bills
reduces the time allowed for
the Coastal Resources Com
mission and the local govern
ments who are involved in
permit applications for them
to consider these applications
for development. Most people
seem to support the process
by which permits are applied
for and considered, but many
people are concerned at the
length of time that it
sometimes takes.
Another very imporant pro
posal, in my opimoo, is the bill
which would create a tax
credit for coastal lands that
are donated to the State.
These are lands that are af
fected by the regulations of
the Coastal Area Manage
ment Act, and it applies to
lands owned by corporations
Destructive Fires
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and marsh land.
“Every time we lose trees
in North Carolina, we lose
dollars,” said H. J. “Boe”
Green, director of the Forest
Resources Division in the
Department of Natural
Resources and Community
Development. “Last year,
damage to commercial forest
lands alone amounted to over
$24-million. It’s a productive
natural resource we can’t af
ford to lose.”
While forest fires can occur
at almost any time, in any
month, the most devastating
are on dry, windy days,
generally in the spring.
Green explained that dur
ing the winter, there is no
shade on the forest floor. The
bright sunny days and strong
winds combine to take
moisture out of dead vegeta
tion and brush. As the
weather warms, people
become more active outside.
And it is people who start the
fires.
The leading cause of forest
fires, according to Green, is
careless debris burning. This
includes burning trash and
brash piles, Held burning, and
burning in trash barrels. Over
42 per cent of last year’s
forest fires were caused by
careless debris burning.
The second major cause of
forest fires is incendiarism .
. . the deliberate burning of
someone else’s woodland.
Often called woods arson, this
crime accounted for 22 per
cent of the forest fires in
North Carolina in 1982. The
1981 General Assembly stif
fened the penalities for this
crime. Those found guilty of
incendiarism can now be
sentenced up to ten years in
prison, fined up to $5,000, or
both.
“When people ignore the
law and fail to take precau
tions, a forest fire is often the
result,” said Green.
“However, as long a folks ob
tain burning permits and do
not bum on dry, windy days,
there is usually no problem. A
lot of unnecessary damage to
our forest resources can be
avoided.”
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as well as individuals. This
matter will receive con
siderable discussion, I am
sure, and I believe that it may
be wise to consider extending
it to include a tax credit for
lands that may be set aside
through easements for use by
the public and still remain in
private ownership and allow
a tax credit to the owner.
There are several ways to ap
proach this subject, and I am
hopeful that the General
Assembly will consider it
favorably because of the ob
vious benefits that would be
created by it. It would also en
courage private owners to
make their lands available for
use by the public
Another area that the Study
Commission believes should
be considered is the applica
tion process for water quality
permits in our State. As you
realize, one of the intentions
behind the passage of the
Coastal Area Management
Act was to clean up our
waters in the coastal area and
keep them from becoming
polluted which, of course,
would have an adverse effect
(Hi our fisheries as well as our
tourist oriented economies.
This bill would allow the
Coastal Resources Commis
sion and the Office of Coastal
Management to have input in
to the consideration of water
quality permits that are
issued in other parts of the
State on water bodies that do
have an effect on coastal
waters. In other words, if we
are going to make an all-out
effort to clean up our waters,
then others who are con
tributing to pollution outside
the coastal area should have
the same stringest re
quirements. We want the
polluters upstream to meet
the restrictions that are im
posed on the users in the
coastal area.
One of the more controver
sial measures recommended
by the Study Commission is
the provision to bring massive
land conversion activities and
peat mining under the over
sight of the Coastal Resources
Commission. At the present
time, agricultural and forest
activities are exempted from
the definition of "develop
ment” for purposes of the
Coastal Area Management
Act.” Many of these activities
should be excluded, I believe,
from the purview of the
Coastal Area Management
Act. Rep. Harry Payne of
New Hanover County feels
strongly that the massive
land conversions and peat
mining should be under the
purview of CAMA. However,
on the other side, there is a
strong feeling that the present
regulations in effect in our
State provide ample coverage
for these activites. I am sure
that this matter will attract
considerable attention to the
deliberations of the Natural &
Economic Resources
Committee.
The other bills, as I have
said, deal with technical
changes which are I believe,
about the various interest rates we pay in our
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supported by most people and
will improve the Coastal Area
Management Act and its
operation.
Most all the recommenda
tions made by. the Study Com
mission on the Coastal Area
Managaemettt Act were as a
result of suggestions at the
public hearings that were
held in the coastal areas. The
meetings were well attended,
and the participants over
whelmingly support a
reasonable coastal manage
ment program. It is my inten
tion, however, to continue to
address those areas of con
cern that are raised by in
terested parties in the coastal
areas. I welcome any com
ments about these particular
measures discussed above
and any other thing that may
be of concern to the citizens of
the First House District.
Peat Mining
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vision so that if there was to
be a drastic, adverse effect, it
could be caught in time.”
Rep. Harry Payne, D-New
Hanover, who served on the
study committee with Evans,
said fishermen had complain
ed about farm runoff polluting
coastal waters while others
had worried aloud that con
verting wetlands into huge
farms could hurt wildlife.
Any industry as sturdy as
agriculture can withstand the
type of scrutiny we plan,”
said Payne.
Peat mining, he added, is
relatively new to the area and
there’s no time like the pre
sent for creating a
mechanism to gauge its effect
on the environment.
But Davis said there’s
neither manpower nor money
enough to expand the Coastal
Resources Commission’s
jurisdiction. He said this
year’s proposed budget calls
for a 35 per cent cut in coastal
operations, and “we’re
fighting just to keep that.”
“We have to be realistic,
and we just don’t have the
money,” he said.
Evans and Payne said they
were aware of NRCD objec
tions to the proposal and that
they mainly were interested
in hearing the issue debated.
“This (bill) is just
something to get us started,”
said Payne. “It’s not aimed at
anyone. We just want these
issues examined.”
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EARNS CERTIFICATE Gone Nixon, Manager of
Albemarle Cooperative, above left, recently earned a Cer
tificate of Achievement for completing a course in “Manag
ing the Cooperative Business” conducted by the National
Cooperative Development Training Center located at the
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. The Certificate was
presented by Julian A. Raburri, Associate Director of the
Center, above right.
Weyerhaeuser Highfi^its
Employees of the Plymouth
Fiber Group raw materials
facility, or “woodyard”, have
worked more than a full year
without a time-loss injury.
The unit achieved the mark in
January.
Paul J. Schmitt, mill
manager of the Plymouth
Fiber Group, praised
employees of the unit for their
“fine achievement consider
ing the hazardous nature of
work performed on the
woodyard. It took close
cooperation and team effort
to achieve this record and
speaks well for the safety
awareness of each employee
in the woodyard”.
The woodyard operates 24
hours a day, year round, and
provides more than 6,300
green tons a day of wood chips
and more than 2,100 green
tons a day of wastewood fuel
for the Plymouth Fiber
Group’s pulp, paper and
paperboard manufacturing
operations.
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Emptoyees of the New Bern
Pulp Mill and Sawmill opera
tions are being given free
voluntary medical examina
tions in order to identify ahy
unknown individual health
problems or potential
problems.
The purpose is to discover
minor problems early in
order to control them and
keep them from becoming
major health problems.
The tests are a screening
program that will build a
written medical history for
employees, and will include a
vita signs checkup, vision and
hearing testing, blood and
other tests and pulmonary
functions testing.
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Jones has been with the
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honored in February for 25
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They are Robert T. Rasberry,
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Maryal Stox of Williamston
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PUBLIC HEARING
A Public Hearing is to be con
ducted March 7,1983 at 9:30 A.M.
in the Chowan County Courthouse
for the purpose of considering a re
quest to be submitted to the Wildlife
Resources Commission
designating certain waters abutting
the Cape Colony subdivision as
“No Wake” and “Recreational”
zones. Maps designating these
areas can be viewed at the County
Manager’s Office.
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Obituary «-l
Mrs. Fannie B. Bunc|
Mrs. Fannie Byrum Bun&i,
age 90, of Rt. 1, Edenton, died
Monday in Unit B of Chowan |
Hospital following an extend
ed illness. A native of Chowan
County, she was the daughter
of the late Frank V. and Mis.
Martha Boyce Byrum and toe
wife of the late Miles E.
Bunch. A homemaker, she
was a member of Rocky Hook
Baptist Church. --
Survivors include two
sisters, Mrs. Helen Mansfield
of Hertford; and Mrs. Pattje
Peele of Norfolk, Va.; one
brother, Jesse Byrum of Nor
folk, Va. and several nieces
and nephews.
Funeral services were con
ducted Wednesday at 2:60
P.M. in the Rocky Hock Bap
tist Church by the Rev.
Donald Wagner.
Burial followed in the
Byrum Family Cemetery, IQ.
1, Edenton, with Williford-
Barham Funeral Home m
charge of arrangements.
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received an IRS notice and
did not understand it?
These are two examples of
problems the IRS can help
resolve. If a person needs
assistance regarding a
Federal tax matter, profes
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ass is tors are standing by to
offer courteous, prompt
assistance. North Carolinians
may call toll-free,
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8 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.
If a person feels it is
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meone face-to-face, the IRS
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state that offer tax assistance
weekdays from 10 A.M. to
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