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~a March 22, 2006 Mr. J. Robert Blowe, PE, Chief Construction Grants and Loans Section Division of Water Quality Department of Environment and Natural Resources State of North Carolina 1633 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-1633 Dear Mr. Blowe: Thank you for all your efforts to help Orange County, the Orange County schools and the citizens of the Buckhorn-Efland area bring utility service to central Orange County in a timely and appropriate manner. As per your letter of March 16, 2006, I write on behalf of Orange County and at the express direction of the Board of County Gommissioners of our intent to reconfigure our STAG funded utility expansion project currently within your review process. As you recall, the original STAG funded utility extension project that Orange County had discussed with you and your staff included an area along Buckhorn Road on both sides (north and south) of Interstate 85/40 and an area in the central Efland community along US Hwy 70, in the vicinity of the intersections of Hwy 70 with Efland-Cedar Grove.and Brookhollow Roads. In the interest of the timing for the opening of the Gravelly Hill Middle School in the Buckhorn Road area, that project was then split into two projects: an expedited project for the Buckhorn Road area and a project for central Efland. In accordance with the original plan to split the projects, Orange County has submitted plans, specifications, engineering reports and environmental assessments, etc., that describe the utility extension project that includes areas along Buckhorn Road north of Interstate 85/40 and areas along Buckhorn and West Ten Road south of interstate 85/40 (including the Gravelly Hill Middle School). We now find it necessary to reconfigure the project again, still in the interest of expediting the provision of utility service to the Gravelly Hill Middle School. Accordingly, this new configuration will have the area south of Interstate 85/40