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025 * Orange County has appropriated in the 1987-88 budget $7, 000 to assist in the survey of natural resources and three members of the Environmental Affairs Board are attending the steering committee for the project. This recommendation has been accomplished. 2 . The Commissioners should request the Orange County Planning Board to formulate alternative approaches for protecting and enhancing natural areas as identified in the survey into the Long Range Plan for the County. The alternative should include at least the following options: a. dedications, b. fee purchases, c. real estate transfer fees, d. preferential tax policy, e. developer contributions in lieu of on-site dedications. * Most of these are being accomplished at this point with the exception of transfer tax and the Long Range Plan of the rest of the County other than the buffer area. 3 . Special attention should be given to protection of the North Carolina Botanical Garden and those sections of Duke Forest located in Orange County. * Discussions with Planning Board to be coordinated by Planning Board representative on EAB. WATER RESOURCES 1. The Board of Commissioners should direct the Orange County Reservoir Siting Committee to develop a proposal for the management of the water of the Upper Eno River during drought conditions. The proposal should include an operational defi- nition of a drought, a set of rules for allocating available resources under a range of conditions that may exist during a drought, and a rule governing the release of water from upstream reservoirs to maintain appropriate levels of instream flow. That committee should report its findings to the Commissioners for review on or before December 31, 1987. * This recommendation should be dropped as the water conserva- tion ordinance addresses most of the concerns. The sub- committee had not seen the ordinance when this recommendation was proposed.