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P commitments to cease or clean up its pollution of public water sources. NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners urges the North Carolina General Assembly to pass legislation prohibiting the placement of any additional waste into any existing coal ash ponds. NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners urges the North Carolina General Assembly to pass legislation requiring all coal ash in North Carolina be moved to safe, dry, lined storage away from water resources, with leachate collection systems and appropriate groundwater monitoring. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, Commissioners urges the repeal Section 46 of the 2013 -413), which changed boundaries allowing Duke F delay cleanup of pollution the Orange County Board of County North Carolina General Assembly to Regulatory Reform Act of 2013 (S.L. the regulations governing compliance ,nergy and other polluters to avoid or that is contaminating groundwater. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners urges the North Carolina General Assembly to require that Duke Energy pay for the cost of the cleanup both at Dan River and the other coal ash ponds across the state, and that the cost not be passed on to ratepayers. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners urges the North Carolina General Assembly to fund the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources at a level that allows them to adequately and responsibly monitor coal ash sites. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the Orange County Board of County Commissioners calls upon all other municipal and county governing bodies of North Carolina to pass similar resolutions to this one. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution are sent to our legislative delegation and to the leadership of the North Carolina General Assembly.