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r ti <br /> 6 <br /> 2) * County Responsibility for Roads - Oppose legislation <br /> • shifting the state' s existing responsibility for <br /> funding transportation construction and maintenance <br /> projects to county governments . However, if the <br /> responsibility or the sharing of responsibility for <br /> secondary road improvements and/or the maintenance of <br /> roads is required of county governments, then Orange <br /> County requests that counties also be given the <br /> authority to levy fees, tolls, and other charges as may <br /> be necessary to provide funding to address this new <br /> responsibility. A new responsibility should include <br /> new revenue opportunities to accomplish the identified <br /> . needs; <br /> 3) * Bio-solids Disposal - Support legislation which <br /> provides county governments some opportunity to <br /> regulate and/or have input into, but not prohibit, bio- <br /> solids application activities, including the acceptable <br /> "classes" of bio-solids for application and the <br /> prohibition of bio-solids application in certain <br /> environmentally sensitive areas such as critical <br /> watersheds . The appropriate application of bio-solids <br /> for agricultural use should be allowed with counties <br /> playing a role in the process; <br /> • <br />