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DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT g Draft Orange Cop n Le 'dative Issues word. Orou Position Statement on B. Everett Jordan Reservoir Jordan. Labe Nutrient Management Rules (Duplicate of Items #24 m Legislative Resolution) B. Everett Jordan 'Reservoir Nutrient Management Rules -- Orange County has a long history of supporting and implementing watershed protection measures such as those proposed for Jordan Lake, often to the benefit of communities outside Orange County. while Orange County does not support Mouse Bill 3 or any other legislation which would eliminate the B. Everett Jordan. Reservoir Nutrient Management Rules entirely, as currently written., the Rules do not recognize Orange County's past efforts and in effect penalize good stewards such as Orange County. The Rules (herein. referred to as the "Jordan Lake Rules ") that have been promulgated by the Environmental Management Co ssion and are currently before the N.C. General Assembly for enaction should recognize these past efforts prior to the baseline year of 2001. Additionally, counties do not typically own or operate stormwater management systems, except for those associated with ' property they own.. Orange County does not support making counties responsible for such systems, for the retrofitting of such systems or the addition of new such systems on already developed, land or existing farmland. Orange County is willing and able to adopt and enforce additional watershed protections applicable to new uses of 'land, new development of laud and the redevelopment of land for which protections are reasonably necessary to reduce the impacts to Jordan Lake resulting from nutrient levels. It is Orange County's view that modifications to the Jordaf. Lake Rules are necessary, consistent with this position statement. Further, consistent with Orange County's comments at the July 2007 public hearings on the rules, if existing development provisions are enacted, the State of North Carolina should provide funding for the cost of implementing the Jordan Lake Rules to the extent they will require local governments to be the designer, builder and manager of watershed protection measures required by the Jordan Lake Rules.