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• <br /> • <br /> • RESOLUTION <br /> A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT THE TOWN OF HILLSBOROUGH AND <br /> ORANGE WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY (OWASA) VOLUNTARILY SUBMIT <br /> TO A LOCAL GOVERNMENT REVIEW OF THE APPLICATION OF MUNICIPAL <br /> SEWAGE SLUDGE TO FARM PROPERTIES.; <br /> • <br /> WHEREAS, the Town of Hillsborough and OWASA currentl <br /> municipal sewage Sludge application operations at Y conduct <br /> rates on privately owned farm properties, and agronomic ic <br /> WHEREAS, OWASA plans to a <br /> WHEREAS, <br /> rates to property pply municipal sewage sludge at <br /> . used for the raising of agriculturall product, and <br /> to be <br /> WHEREAS, members of a community within which a number of the <br /> privad-e:ly-owned and OWASA-owned properties <br /> expressed concerns with the ' f these sludge <br /> application activities and with conduct. of these sludge <br /> Physical , environmental and social impacts on the <br /> community, and ocial canditlons of the <br /> WHEREAS, the State of North Carolina is the permitting <br /> inspections agency for the conduct of these operations, and <br /> WHEREAS, the General Statutes of North Carolina and the <br /> Orange County Zoning Ordinance exempt agricultural land uses <br /> from local government land use regulation, and <br /> WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners recognizes that <br /> there is a need to exercise local review <br /> procedures for the application of municipal sewage sludge <br /> public agencies to both private and public properties, by <br /> NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Orange County Board of <br /> Commissioners requests that the Town <br /> OWASA voluntarily submit to a of evlew of t and <br /> respective municipal sludge application'local <br /> i <br /> heir <br /> on' operations to both <br /> private properties and properties owned by either agency. <br /> Adopted this the fifth day of May, i, 86. <br /> r <br /> DON k i L L HO I T, CHAIR <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSiONERS <br /> ATTEST: <br /> / �f yr <br />