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4 17 Report of the Landfill Owners Group/Landfill Neighbors Working Group The following recommendations of this Working Group should be incorporated into the inter-local agreement transferring ownership and operation of the Grange Regional Landfill to Orange County. The recommendations should be incorporated in such a way as to be legally binding on the signatories to the inter-local agreement. In no way should these recommendations be interpreted as compensation for siting of a future landfill in the Eubanks Road area--rather they are solely meant to address the compensation of neighbors for having lived near the current landfill. Recommendations for Improvements around the Orange Regional Landfill 1. The Working Group recommends that water and sewer mains be extended to provide service to the area along the entire length of Rogers Road; Millhouse Road from Eubanks Road to New Jericho Road; and serving households on other side streets off these main roads(including,but not limited to,Purefoy Drive, Rusch Road, Priscilla Lane, Sandberg Lane, Meadow Rum Court, Manor Dtive, Manor Court, and Blackwood Mountain Road). These improvements should be provided by the completion of the 2002-2003 fiscal year. The costs of providing these improvements should be paid for by landfill fiords to the extent allowed by North Carolina law. The remaining costs of these improvements should be divided among the owners of the Orange Regional Landfill on the same basis as their ownership(i.e. Orange County 43%,Town of Chapel Hill 43%,Town of Carrboro 14%). The Working Group recommends that the Town of Chapel Hill act as the coordinating agency in caaying out these improvements. 2. The Working Group recommends that Orange County, Chapel Hill, and Catrboro provide assistance to low-income residents in the areas where water and sewer service are to be extended in paying the costs of connecting to water and sewer. This assistance can take the form of Community Development Block Grants, other grants, or local AM& where allowed by state law. "Assistance to low-income residents" is defined as paying for at least 75%of the cost of water and sewer hookups to households whose income is less than 80% of the median income in Orange County for a family of four; and providing at least 50% of the cost of hookups for households whose income is between 80%and 1009/6 of the median income in Orange County for a family of four. Very low-income residents in these areas should receive 100%of the costs of hookups. In recognition of the special burden placed on persons living closest to the landfill, households within the area bounded by the Landfill,the Greene tract, Eubanks Road, and 1