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Memorandum of Understanding 1 1 <br /> Jordan Lake Partnership <br /> Activities is conducted with advice of the Partnership Management Team,not as an <br /> instrument of a joint agency. <br /> 3) Costs for General Activities. <br /> Each signatory to this agreement will participate in supporting the costs of each year <br /> of General Activities of the Partnership by payment to the City of Durham at one of <br /> two levels: <br /> a) Level I—signatories with 10,000 or more water service connections- $7,500 <br /> b) Level II—signatories with less than 10,000 water service connections- $2,500 <br /> 4) Invoicing for General Activities. <br /> The City of Durham will invoice each signatory unit for their share of the General <br /> Activities costs in January of each year, and each signatory will pay the invoice <br /> within 30 days. <br /> 5) Additional Projects. <br /> The signatories of this Memorandum of Understanding may seek additional <br /> opportunities to cooperate on mutually beneficial planning and capital projects related <br /> to water supply resources from Jordan Lake. Participation in an Additional Project is <br /> at the discretion of each signatory of the Partnership. The paragraphs below <br /> summarize currently identified Additional Projects that may be undertaken: <br /> a) Regional Water Supply Planning Project. The objective of this Project will be to <br /> develop a regional water supply plan for Jordan Lake. This will include <br /> gathering,reviewing, and refining relevant water supply information from Jordan <br /> Lake allocation holders as well as water systems connected to allocation holders. <br /> Information collected will include,but not be limited to,water supply demand, <br /> conservation measures, supply sources, and future needs. <br /> b) Jordan Lake Allocation Request Project. The objective of this Project will be to <br /> develop a jointly prepared and coordinated allocation requests to the <br /> Environmental Management Commission for allocation of Jordan Lake water <br /> supply storage. This may include preparing a common letter request for <br /> participants in this Project and a summary of a Regional Water Supply Plan <br /> (developed under a separate Project in item(i))to support the requests. This task <br /> may also include tailoring common information specifically for the applicants that <br /> could be used for individual applications for allocations of water supply storage. <br /> The goal is to prepare common information that reflects a regional water supply <br /> plan that can be used for the individual system applications to the Environmental <br /> Management Commission. <br /> c) Jordan Lake Western Intake Preliminary Planning Project. This Project may <br /> include study of the potential capacity and associated intake and water supply <br /> facilities that may be required to utilize any increased allocation of public water <br /> supply from Jordan Lake. It will include preliminary engineering and costs <br /> information to support an allocation application. This task will be limited to the <br />