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y 6 We recommend that this hearing be scheduled this spring and propose that the elected boards be asked to attempt to reach a tentative consensus on scheduling this hearing when they gather for the joint public forum on April 18 . The date of the hearing would need to be confirmed by each board at a regular meeting of that Board. We believe that at this hearing the property owners whose property is part of the site identified for possible acquisition as site OC-17 should be allowed to make whatever presentation they wish to make and be given a reasonable opportunity to present information and place information before the governing boards for their consideration. Owners of property in the area surrounding the property under consideration for acquisition should be given a similar opportunity. B. North Carolina Administrative Code hearing. In addition to selecting a site for a landfill (after complying with the hearing requirement described above) the County Commissioners, as the "host" jurisdiction for the site are required to approve the site following the procedures required by the North Carolina Administrative Code. The Code requires, before the County considers whether to approve Site OC-17 or any other site within the County' s jurisdiction, an additional public meeting. The State Administrative Code contains specific requirements for how this public meeting is to be advertised and how the record of the meeting is to be made. This meeting should be separate from the joint public hearing described above and will afford another opportunity for public input from property owners and surrounding neighbors as well as other interested citizens prior to a County decision being made. Information regarding this hearing is required to be submitted to the State as part of the application for a State permit . C. Zoning approval . In addition to approving and selecting a site for a landfill, the governing board with zoning jurisdiction (in the case of all final candidate sites this is Orange County) must provide a letter to be submitted with the State application stating that the proposal meets all requirements of the local zoning ordinance. We anticipate that an application to the State for a landfill permit will not be ready to file before 1998 or 1999 . Prior to the application being prepared for filing, design plans for the proposed landfill will need to progress to a stage sufficient to allow -there to be a determination as to what, if any, County zoning regulations need to be followed so that the requisite permits can be issued, thereby allowing the County to submit the letter 4