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28 1 Michael Talbert said that staff contacted White Cross Fire Department, which has a 2 temporary permit to continue to do what it does, but there is no guarantee at any one point that 3 the State would not change the rules. There is not a permanent permit to continue to dispose 4 of the waste. 5 Chair Pelissier said that she brought this forward to the Environmental Steering 6 Committee, and it was suggested that there might be more success if the Fire Chiefs 7 Association lobbied on this. She would like to encourage other parties to get involved in this. 8 Chair Pelissier said that another goal of the steering committee was to enhance river 9 basin and monitoring of streamline rule-making. This was intended to address the fact that the 10 way all the rules have been made up do not require the monitoring directly of all of the water 11 bodies. 12 A motion was made by Chair Pelissier, seconded by Commissioner Hemminger to add 13 this item into the list of goals: Enhance river basin monitoring and streamline rule-making. 14 Commissioner Jacobs said that they did not look at the NCACC goals, but only the 15 Orange County specific goals. 16 17 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 18 19 A motion was made by Commissioner McKee, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to 20 approve a Resolution Detailing Orange County's Recommendations Regarding Goals for 21 Inclusion in the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners' (NCACC) 2013-14 22 Legislative Goals Package and authorize the Chair to sign. 23 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 24 25 Commissioner McKee asked that a letter be written from Chair Pelissier to the Chief's 26 Council in reference to Orange County's support of item #8 in the resolution: 27 28 8) Support actions to change North Carolina Division of Water Quality (DWQ) wastewater 29 system classification rules which currently classify a spray irrigation system such as one utilized 30 by volunteer fire departments as "commercial". When the flow generated by the system is 31 domestic quality/non-industrial process wastewater, the system should be held to the same 32 monitoring and testing standards as a residential wastewater system under DWQ jurisdiction. In 33 the alternative, volunteer fire departments should be excluded entirely from the "commercial" 34 classification. The annual inspections and testing costs associated with a "commercial" 35 designation for a spray irrigation system serving a volunteer fire department can be several 36 thousands of dollars. Accounting for the type of flow actually treated by a system rather than 37 assigning a blanket "commercial" designation would significantly reduce volunteer fire 38 departments' annual costs across the state. 39 40 8. Reports-NONE 41 42 9. County Manaqer's Report 43 Frank Clifton said that there will be two upcoming retirements — Emergency Services 44 Director Frank Montes de Oca and Assistant County Manager Gwen Harvey. 45 Also, the County has completed the process for the hiring of a Public Affairs Officer and 46 she is Carla Banks and will be starting on September 17tn 47 48 10. County Attorney's Report 49 None 50