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Environment Goals & Guiding Principles <br /> ENV-2: Seek legislation to establish a mechanism for local <br /> governments to recover costs associated with providing <br /> services or reversing negative effects on the community re- <br /> lated to the natural gas and oil exploration industry and coal <br /> ash storage. <br /> • The Energy Modernization Act from 2014 prohibits local gov- <br /> ernments from assessing any tax (aside from property tax) <br /> on an individual or business engaged in energy mineral ac- <br /> tivities, and it provides no mechanism for local governments <br /> to access revenue from state taxes on the industry. <br /> • The costs to local governments are difficult to determine with <br /> such a new industry in North Carolina, but counties need a <br /> means to recover potential costs such as employee time for <br /> deed and tax assessment changes, employee training, and <br /> emergency management activities. <br /> ENV-3: Seek legislation to clarify that counties have the au- <br /> thority to establish by ordinance a program for the collec- <br /> tion of residential recyclable materials and to charge fees to <br /> recover the costs. <br /> • While some counties are running residential recycling pro- <br /> grams, a resident has challenged the program in one county, <br /> and statutory authority is unclear. A clarification to the stat- <br /> ute would remove any doubt as to such authority. <br /> www.ncacc.org I (919) 715-2893 <br /> 9 <br />