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42 <br />Representative Joe Hackney <br />Representative Verla C. Insko <br />Senator Eleanor Kinnaird <br />Senator Howard Lee <br />Page 2 <br />May 18, 1998 <br />Counties are included in the coverage of S.B. 594) which will <br />authorize the conduct of a local referendum on a 1~ local option <br />sales tax, the proceeds of which would be used for school capital <br />and which tax, if passed by a referendum, would exempt food. <br />The last local act requested would expressly authorize <br />Orange County to regulate the emission of pollutants or <br />contaminates in the same manner and to the same degree as cities. <br />Increasingly, development in Orange County begins by the clearing <br />of forest land, the remnants of which are frequently bulldozed <br />into piles and then burned. Orange County would like the express <br />power to regulate the burning portion of this activity. <br />Thank you for your help with these legislative matters. I <br />offer any help I can provide in the legislative process. Please <br />call me if I can help. <br />Very truly yours, <br />GLEDHILL & HARGR.AVE, P.C. <br />rey E/. Gl <br />GEG/lsg <br />Enclosure <br />xc: Margaret W. Bro n, Chair <br />Bill Crowther <br />Moses Carey, Jr. <br />Alice Gordon <br />Stephen Halkiotis <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />John M. Link, Jr. <br />C. Ronald Aycock, Esquire, <br />Executive Director, NCACC <br />lsg-13 <br />ocleg.ltr <br />