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6. the County recognizes that providing at least the core elements of water <br />and sewer infrastructure to the EDD will help promote non-residential <br />development in the Buckhorn EDD, which will in turn help to stabilize and <br />make permanent zoning of the Buckhorn EDD; and <br />7. the County has secured a $900,000 Environmental Protection Agency <br />(EPA) grant for the construction of portions of a wastewater collection <br />system that could provide the core of wastewater utilities for the EDD and <br />could also provide wastewater collection for the Buckhorn Road <br />community and for the proposed middle school site; and <br />8. the County's EPA grant is a matching fund grant which the County will <br />match with proceeds from the 1997 Efland Sewer Bond; and <br />9. the use of the Bond funds as the match for the EPA grant requires that <br />both the bond funded project and the grant funded project be configured <br />such that system design and construction activities be carried out as two <br />sections or phases of a single project and adhere to the rules and <br />requirements of EPA funded utility projects; and <br />10. Orange County and the City of Mebane have previously cooperated to <br />provide municipal utility service to economic development areas to the <br />mutual benefit of both the City and County; and <br />11. County officials and staff have held discussions with City of Mebane <br />officials and staff about the engineering feasibility of, and the City's <br />willingness to allow, the extension of City water distribution and <br />wastewater collection utilities to the Buckhorn Road community and the <br />EDD; and <br />12. City of Mebane and Orange County officials and staff have determined <br />that extending City water distribution and wastewater collection utilities to <br />the Buckhorn Road community and the EDD is feasible and offers <br />significant benefits to the County, the City and the community; and <br />13. the County wishes to ensure that its adopted development standards for <br />the EDD and the integrity of the County Land Use Plan for the area <br />surrounding the Buckhorn Road community and the EDD remain intact <br />regardless of the availability or ownership of water and wastewater <br />utilities, and: <br />14. the County wishes to ensure that the integrity of the Efland Community is <br />not compromised and that it remain distinct from the EDD and the <br />Buckhorn Road community; and <br />