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1 <br />March 2, 2006 <br />Mr. ~l. Robert Blowe, PE, Chief <br />Construction Grants and Loans Section <br />Division of Water Quality <br />Department of Environment and Natural Resources <br />State of North Carolina <br />1633 Mail Service Center <br />Raleigh, NC 27699-1633 <br />Dear Mr. Blowe: <br />As per recent and ongoing discussions between Construction Grants and Loans <br />Section staff and Orange County staff and engineering consultants, I am writing on <br />behalf of Orange Gounty and at the express direction of the Board of County <br />Commissioners to advise you of our intent to reconfigure our STAG funded utility <br />expansion project currently within your review process. Specifically, it is the <br />County's intent to move forward with a project that will provide water and sewer <br />service to an area south of Interstate 85/40 along Buckhorn Road and West Ten <br />Road and to the Gravelly Hill Middle School. It is fiarthermore the County's intent <br />that the portion of the project along Buckhorn Road north of Interstate 85/40, the <br />area of "environmental justice" interest be recombined with the previously <br />separated out portion of the overall STAG funded project that will also provide <br />sewer service to the central Efland community, <br />As per those discussions referenced above, you will, of course, realize that our <br />purpose in reconfiguring the STAG project is to eliminate that time associated with <br />the federal agency review portion of the overall project review, approval and <br />permitting process. It is our understanding, based on previous correspondence <br />between yourself and County staff, that this reconfiguration poses no threat of loss <br />of any STAG funding. It is likewise our understanding that the act of reconfiguring <br />the STAG project is one that needs to be coordinated solely with Construction <br />Grants and Loans and does not require any coordination with the US EPA or other <br />federal funding sources, It is also our understanding the broken out locally funded <br />project will remain within the approval and permitting purview of the Construction <br />Loans and Grants Section. <br />