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I1I. RATE SCHEDULE AND AVAILABILITY FEES <br /> A. Rate Schedule—Based upon monthly water consumption: See Attachment A. <br /> B. Connection Fees: <br /> Each person, firm, or corporation connecting to the system (hereinafter user or <br /> users) shall pay a per residential equivalent connection fee to the County equal to <br /> the connection fee that would be charged by the City of Mebane, as revised from <br /> time to time, for a sewer connection to the City of Mebane's sanitary sewer system. <br /> In addition, each user or users shall pay connection fee to the Town of Hillsborough <br /> as established and revised from time to time by the Town of Hillsborough. The <br /> original 212 potential Efland Area Sewer System customers who have provided <br /> Orange County with an application for sewer service to the Efland Sewer System <br /> and who have provided Orange County with a signed and acknowledged Efland <br /> Sewer System Sewer Easement and Agreement but have not been connected to the <br /> system because their property affected by the Sewer Easement and Agreement is <br /> not yet served by the sewer system are, with respect to the property affected by the <br /> Agreement, exempt from Orange County connection fees, provided they connect to <br /> the sewer system and become sewer customers of the sewer system with respect to <br /> the property covered by the Sewer Easement and Agreement signed by them within <br /> 30 days of notification that connection can be made. Connection Fees shall be paid <br /> by the user with a completed and signed Efland Sewer System Sewer Easement and <br /> Agreement. <br /> C. Stub-out Service Line Fee. <br /> Each person, firm, or corporation connecting to the system (hereafter user or users) <br /> shall pay a stub-out service line fee in an amount equal to the administrative and <br /> construction cost to Orange County of installing a service line. This fee shall be <br /> based on the out-of-pocket cost to Orange County for installing the service line plus <br /> an allocated cost equal to the administration cost to Orange County of having the <br /> installation accomplished. The original 212 potential Efland Area Sewer System <br /> customers who have provided Orange County with an application for sewer service <br /> to the Efland Sewer System and who have provided Orange County with a signed <br /> and acknowledged Efland Sewer System Sewer Easement and Agreement but have <br /> not been connected to the system because their property affected by the Sewer <br /> Easement and Agreement is not yet served by the sewer system are, with respect to <br /> the property affected by the Agreement, exempt from Orange County stub-out <br /> Service Line fees,provided they connect to the sewer system and become sewer <br /> customers of the sewer system with respect to the property covered by the Sewer <br /> Easement and Agreement signed by them within 30 days of notification that <br /> connection can be made. A stub-out Service Line Fee shall be due from, owed and <br /> paid by the user within fifteen(15) days of mailing to the user of an Orange County <br /> invoice for the fee. <br /> IV. APPLICATION FOR SERVICE <br /> Persons seeking service may make application in person at the office of the Orange <br /> County Planning Department. The application requirements are as follows: <br /> 1. A deposit as provided in Article V of these rules must accompany the application <br /> and be paid at the Orange County Planning Department or such other place as is <br /> designated by Orange County from time to time. A Sewer Use and Easement and <br /> Agreement must be on file, signed by the property owner(s)/users. <br /> 2 <br />