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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: February 2, 1999 Action Agenda Item # ~~ SUBJECT: County Response to OWASA request for comments relative to its utility extension and assessment position paper DEPARTMENT: County Manager ATTACHMENT(S): (under sepazate cover) County Draft Letter & attachments OWASA Letter & attachments University of North Carolina letter Chapel Hill Letter & attachments PUBLIC HEARING: Yes No BUDGET AMENDMENT: Yes No INFORMATION CONTACT: County Engineer Extension 2303 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732-8181 Durham - 688-7331 Mebane - 227-2031 Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 PURPOSE: To present for BOCC review, revision and approval a draft letter to OWASA replying to OWASA's request for a County response or reaction to its position paper on utility extension and assessment policy. BACKGROUND: At its May 6, 1998 meeting, the BOCC heazd a presentation by OWASA on utility extension and assessment issues as encapsulated within an official OWASA discussion paper entitled "Assessment Policy Applicable to Water and Sewer Service Extensions into Existing Unserved Neighborhoods". By letter of June 16, 1998, OWASA requested that the BOCC provide OWASA with suggestions and comments relative to that discussion paper. Staff and County Commissioners have been working intermittently to develop a response to OWASA since September 1998. Providing an adequate response to OWASA has been complicated by a number of factors. Primary among these is the fact that Orange County has relatively little direct responsibility in the area of utility extension and assessment policy. The County does have an interest in extension and assessment policy insofaz as the Efland sewer system is concerned. Otherwise, however, its primary interest and role in utility extension policy correlates almost solely with its regulatory responsibilities related to land use and watershed protection issues and strategies.