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i 2 Orange County has previously utilized Survey and Planning Grant Funds to undertake inventories of historical and archaeological sites in its unincorporated areas. These inventories have been undertaken in year-by-year phases. Phase I, completed in June, 1992, consisted of an inventory of unincorporated portions of Chapel Hill Township. Phase II, funded by a $17,000 survey and planning grant, began in 1992. The Phase II project completed the inventory of unincorporated portions of the remaining six townships. The Phase II fieldwork, conducted by Todd Peck and Jody Carter, was completed in 1993. The research resulted in a total survey of 507 structures. Subsequent fieldwork by Planning Department staff in Fall 1994 revealed a number of sites not surveyed during the Phase II work. It is estimated that an additional 75 structures remain to be surveyed to complete Phase II. Phase III was the archaeological survey of the unincorporated portions of Orange County. This work was funded by a survey and planning grant of$15,000. In September 1994, An Archaeological Survey of Portions of Orange County North Carolina was completed by Randy Daniel of the Research Laboratories of Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Phase III grant funds also included monies for the preparation of the architectural inventory manuscript by Todd Peck and Jody Carter. While the manuscript preparation was begun in Spring, 1993, it was not completed, and the contract was terminated by mutual agreement between Orange County,the Division of Archives and History,and the consultants. Phase IV of Orange County's historic preservation program is the preparation of the Historic Preservation Element of the Comprehensive Plan. This project, which will begin in January, 1995,is being funded by a 1994 survey and planning grant of$10,315. The Jaeger Company of Gainesville, Georgia, will prepare the preservation plan. The attached CLG grant application requests funds to complete the Orange County historic architectural survey and to prepare a manuscript for the inventory. At their meeting of January 3, 1995, the Historic Preservation Commission voted unanimously to recommend that the application for 1995 CLG Survey and Planning Grant funds be submitted to the SHPO. RECOBBIENDATION: The Administration recommends that the County Manager be authorized to apply for up to$9,525 from the CLG Survey and Planning Grant Program. The amount would be matched by$6,075 from Orange County and would be used to complete Phase II and Phase III of Orange County's historic preservation program.