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A -4 Next Steps in Rule Makinz Timeline m Final Stakeholder meeting to review draft rule text January 21, 2010 Submit Fiscal Analysis to OSBM January 31, 2010 (target) W C / EMC approval to take draft rules to public comment March 2010 Public comment period TBD Hearing Officers deliberate public comments TBD W C / EMC approval of final rules January 15, 2011 Falls Lake Rules go into effect as "temporary rules" February 1, 2011 Rules Review Commission reviews rule language I February 2011 - TBD Rules may o to N.C. General Assembly May 2012 TBD =To be determined based in large part on the fiscal note approval process. The note must be approved by the Office of State Budget Management before public hearings can be held. Falls Lake Nutrient Management Report The models developed and used in developing the strategy will be documented in a report that is currently under development. Staff plans to provide this document to the WQC and EMC in March 2010 in support of the draft rules that will be provided then. An outline of the report is provided below. I. Background a. Nutrient Problems i. Map of Violations ii. Graph of Historical Chl -a data b. TAC & Stakeholder Process II. Modeling & Model Application a. Two Models i. Serial vs. Parallel Approach ii. Data used by both models iii. Watershed Model loading estimates iv. Loads used by Lake Model b. Lake Model Scenario Run i. 2006 Baseline discussion ii. Use ofNEU13B as "compliance area" iii. Upper vs. Lower lake iv. Development of "The Curve" III. Decision on Strategy Development a. General Decisions i. Decision on use of 30/70 reduction combination ii. Process to adjust to 40/77 reduction iii. Stage 1 / Stage 2 discussion iv. Trading 4 15