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Board of Commissioners Page Sever, August 24 , 1987 <br /> person, desires a <br /> public meeting on any application, he <br /> may do so by requesting a meeting in writing to the <br /> Environmental Management Commission within 30 days <br /> following the date of the notice. If the Environmental <br /> Management Commission determines that there is a <br /> significant public interest in holding such a meeting, <br /> it shall do so providing at least 30 days notice of the <br /> meeting. The Environmental Management Commission is <br /> further authorized to conduct public hearings on any <br /> application. Within 90 days following consider <br /> the matters and things ation of <br /> presented Environmental Management Commission must igrantrorg, <br /> deny a permit. <br /> 5 <br /> North Carolina General Statutes Section 143-215 . 5 <br /> provides for review of the decision on the <br /> following the public hearing permit <br /> following Environmental Management Commission, aridrthenytohtheull <br /> courts. However, only those "persons against whom a <br /> final order or decision has been entered" are entitled <br /> to this review. <br /> North Carolina General Statutes Section 143-215 . 3 <br /> § authorizes the Environmental Management Commission to <br /> o adopt from time to time and to modify and revoke its <br /> regulations interpreting and applying the law of North <br /> Carolina declaring it to be the public <br /> policy State to provide for the conservation ofo its waterhand <br /> air resources. <br /> 0 <br /> Summarizing the above, it would seem that Orange <br /> County could have a significant role in the public <br /> input portion of the Environmental Management <br /> Commission ' s review of the Amberly wastewater treatment <br /> system. Likewise the County, through its professional <br /> 8 staff and experts hired by it, could develop revisions <br /> to and, as needed, new standards related to wastewater <br /> treatment facilities in drinking water watersheds and <br /> present them to the Environmental Management Commission <br /> in the form of requested rule making changes. This can <br /> be done in the context of this project only pursuant to <br /> N.C. Gen. Stat. Section 143-215. 1 or generally pursuant <br /> to N.C. Gen. Stat. Section 143-215 .3 . With respet <br /> review of the Environmental Management Commission's to <br /> decision, however, it appears to be limited to parties <br /> to an application. This would, on the surface, rule <br /> out Orange County having a right of appeal. Within the <br /> time available for the research of the questions posed <br /> by the Board, I was not able to determine if there is <br /> any possibility of the County intervening as a party in <br />