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3 To date, Orange County staff have received less than ten requests for assistance with debris removal from streams. According to those requesting this assistance, only two situations(South Fork of the Little River and the Eno River in Hillsborough) are thought to represent any potential flooding threat to occupied buildings. One area may represent a potential hazard for flooding a residential driveway. With the exception of the Little River and Eno River areas, all other requests for assistance involve potential blockages on intermittent streams. Outside of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro urban areas, there has been no attempt to evaluate the potential for flooding of the NCDOT maintained primary and secondary roadway system. If the BOCC determines that Orange County will participate in the EWP program, County staff will immediately begin the process of identifying and mapping potential EWP project sites (MRCS has set deadlines of 11/17/96 for requests to participate in the program and 11/22/96 for submission of all prerequisites except Rights-of-Entry). This information will then be submitted to the state office of NRCS for review. NRCS engineers will then make field inspections of each proposed project site to evaluate and prioritize the site. Once a site is assigned a priority sufficiently high to assure that it will be funded, the process of preparing construction, contract and bid documents and bidding will move forward. RECOMMENDATION: The Administration recommends that the BOCC: • approve the County's participation in the EWP program using the Federal Contracting Option • authorize the Chair to sign, on behalf of the BOCC, the official"Request for Assistance" • authorize the Chair to sign, on behalf of the BOCC, the official "Appointment of Liaison" letters designating the County Engineer as the liaison; • authorize the Chair to sign, on behalf of the BOCC, the official letter of assurance of availability and commitment of twenty-five percent local (County)funding share • direct staff to: 1) draft, for the Chair's approval and execution, the letters designated above; and 2)proceed with the EWP site identification, coordination and mitigation process as required.