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LAW OFFICES <br /> COLEMAN, GLEDHILL & HARGRAVE ALONZO BROWN COLEMAN,JR. <br /> A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION GEOFFREY E.GLEDHILL <br /> DOUGLAS HARGRAVE <br /> 129 E.TRYON STREET <br /> KIM K.STEFFAN <br /> P.O.DRAWER 1529 <br /> JANET B.DUTTON <br /> HILLSBOROUGH,NORTH CAROLINA 27278 <br /> DOUGLAS P.THOREN <br /> (919)732-2196 September 2 , 1994 <br /> FAX(919)732-7997 <br /> Moses Carey, Jr. , Chair <br /> Alice Gordon <br /> Stephen Halkiotis <br /> Verla Insko <br /> Don Willhoit <br /> Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> Post Office Box 8181 <br /> Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 <br /> RE: Piney Mountain Subdivision <br /> Dear Board Members : <br /> Enclosed is correspondence between Bob Epting and Dave <br /> Moreau and a memorandum to the Environmental Management <br /> Commission Steering Committee from Preston Howard, the Director <br /> of the Department of Environmental Management, which provides <br /> information concerning the potential for a High Unit Cost grant <br /> award to Orange County for the Piney Mountain Subdivision sewer <br /> system. <br /> It was the County's belief that a special $2 , 000 ,000 <br /> appropriation made this summer by the General Assembly, a <br /> transfer from uncommitted Economic Development money to the <br /> "Wastewater Grant Program for High Unit Cost Areas , " was intended <br /> to or could be used to "fund" H.B. 1628 . A copy of H.B. 1628 is <br /> also enclosed. House Bill 1628 created special application <br /> procedures and a window of time for application for grants to <br /> fund failed, low-pressure pipe sewer systems certified by the <br /> State Health Director as present or imminent serious public <br /> health hazards . The North State LPP systems , including the Piney <br /> Mountain Subdivision system, prompted the introduction and <br /> passage of H.B. 1628 . <br /> As the enclosed correspondence makes reasonably clear, and <br /> as the language in the appropriation makes even clearer, it will <br /> be difficult for the Environmental Management Commission to <br /> classify any of the subdivisions served by a North State <br /> Utilities LPP system, including the Piney Mountain Subdivision, <br /> as a "low wealth area. " The information about the appropriation <br /> limitation was not known to County staff at the last Board <br />