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Also attached is an email correspondence from Darek Newby of Rep. Price's office containing excerpts of the Congressional Record showing FY03 and the FY05 STAG awards to Orange County. The FY03 excerpt shows a $900,000 grant for "wastewater infrastructure needs" as a project description and the FY05 excerpt shows a $500,000 grant for "water and wastewater infrastructure improvements" as a project description. According to Mr. Newby's email, this description provides flexibility in how the funding for the projects is targeted. Insofar as a project description is concerned, this language is that which the EPA will utilize in its evaluation of nature and scope of the County's project. Furthermore, CGLS staff has advised that the project description language cited in Mr. Newby's email is identical to that being utilized by CGLS for its evaluation of the nature and scope of County project. FINANCIAL IMPACT: Financial Impacts are those that have been outlined in previous discussions of this issue. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board: • Receive the letter and email as adequate assurance that reconfiguring the County's STAG funded utilities projects will not affect the currently existing level of STAG funding available to the County; and o authorize the Chair to sign the letter to CGLS, indicating the Board's intent to reconfigure the STAG project such that the portion of the utilities to serve the Gravelly Hill Middle School will be broken out of the STAG process and expedited by funded that portion solely by County funding sources and that utility extensions that will serve the northern Buckhorn Community and the central Efland community be combined to move forward within the STAG funded process.