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General Assembly overrides governor on environmental veto

Under this bill, which now becomes law, if a pre-existing development gets reworked, new storm water control measures can be required only on the amount of impervious surface added to the development, not on the full property.

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Travis Fain
RALEIGH, N.C. — The General Assembly on Thursday overrode Gov. Roy Cooper's veto on a wide-ranging regulatory reform bill that environmentalists had targeted largely over storm water concerns.

The House voted 70-42 to void Cooper's veto on Senate Bill 16. The Senate vote was 31-15. Both were party-line decisions in favor of the Republican majority, save for state Rep. William Brisson, D-Duplin, who crossed the aisle to oppose Cooper's veto.

Senate Bill 16 runs 17 pages, and it touches on a number of code sections. A rollback on local government's ability to require extra storm water mitigation efforts at redeveloped properties drew Cooper's veto, with the governor arguing at the time that "we should make it easier, not harder, for state and local governments to protect water quality."

Under the bill, which now becomes law, if a pre-existing development gets reworked, new storm water control measures can be required only on the amount of impervious surface added to the development, not on the full property.

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