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O R A N G E C 0 U N T Y 1 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA-ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 6. 1994 Action Agenda Item # MY-8 SUBJECT: MEMBERSHIP IN UPPER NEUSE BASIN ASSOCIATION DEPARTMENT. PLANNING • PUBLIC HEARING Yes _x—No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Memorandum From D.E. Benton, Jr. Mary Willis By-Laws of Upper Neuse Basin Association Inc. Extension 2583 Resolution of Intent to Participate TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough-732-8181 Durham -688-7331 Mebane -227-2031 Chapel Hill -967-9251 PURPOSE: To indicate whether or not Orange County intends to be a member of the Neuse River Basin Association Inc. BACKGROUND: At a meeting of the Falls Lake Workgroup on June 22, 1993, the possibility of taking the following steps in addressing water quality concerns in the Falls Lake Watershed was discussed: - conducting a focused study of water quality concerns in the Falls Lake Watershed; - developing a management program for the watershed; and - forming a watershed management association that could guide any additional analysis or management program. At its meeting on August 17, 1993, at the request of the Triangle J Council of Governments, the Board of Commissioners considered the steps listed above and indicated its conceptual support, provided that an equitable regional distribution of economic development activity was taken into account, and that users of the water being protected would assisting in paying the costs of protection (letter attached) . The mission assigned by the Falls Lake Workgroup to the watershed management association is to "preserve the water quality of the Upper Neuse River through innovative and cost-effective pollution reduction strategies by: 1. Forming a coalition of units of local government, public and private agencies and other interested and affected communities, organizations, businesses and