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3 Report of the landfill Owners Group/Landfill Neighbors Workdng Group The following recommendations of this Working Group should be incorporated into the inter-local agreement transferring ownership and operation of the Orange Regional Landfill to Orange County. The recommendations should be incorporated m such a way as to be legally binding on the sigtratories to the inter-local agreement In no way should these -—men dations 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 new 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 aleng 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(iinchuting,but not limited to,Punefoy Drive, Rusch Road, Priscilla Lane, Sandberg Lane, Meadow Rua Coat,Maacr,Drhm, Manor Cant, and Blackwood Mountain Road). These improvements should be provddini by the completion of the 2002-2003 fiscal year. The costs of providing these improvements should be paid for by landfiIl ftmds 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 oa the same basis as their ownership(L e.Orange County 43%,Town of Chapel Hill 43%,Town of Carrbogro 14 0/6). The Working Group recommends that the Town of Chapel Hill act as the coordinating agency in drying art these improvements. 2. The Working Group recammdends that Orange Canty, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro provide assistance to low-iucetme 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 forms of Community Development Block Grants, other grants,or local fimds where allowed by state law, "Assistance to lowwineame residents" is defined as paying for at least 75%of the cost of water and sewer b odimps to households whose income is lass than 80% of the median income in OraAp County for a family of four; and providing at least 50% of the cost of hookups for households whose income is between 80%and 1000/a of the median income in Orange County for a family of four. Very low-income residents in these areas should receive 100%of the casts ofhookups. In recognition of the special burden placed on persons living closest to the landfill, households within the area bounded by the Landfill,the Greece tract, Eubanks Road,and 1