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*County Responsibility for Roads 2) – Oppose legislation shifting the state’s existing responsibility for funding transportation construction and maintenance projects to county governments. However, if the responsibility or the sharingof responsibility for secondary road improvements and/or the maintenance of roads is required ofcounty governments, then Orange County requests that counties also be given the authority to levy fees, tolls, and other charges as may be necessary to provide funding to address this new responsibility. A new responsibility should include new revenue opportunities to accomplish the identified needs; * Bio-solids Disposal 3) - Support legislation which provides county governments some opportunity to regulate and/or have input into, but not prohibit, bio- solids application activities, including the acceptable “classes” of bio-solids for application and the prohibition of bio-solids application in certain environmentally sensitive areas such as critical watersheds. The appropriate application of bio-solids for agricultural use should be allowed with counties playing a role in the process;