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13 <br />(3) "FONSI" - a Finding of No Significant Environmental <br />Impact. <br />(4) "Completed EA "' - an Environmental Assessment that has <br />been accepted by the County Planning Department as <br />technically acceptable for purposes of this ordinance. <br />(5) "Completed EIS" - an environmental impact statement <br />that has been accepted by the County Planning Department <br />as technically acceptable for the purpose of being <br />transmitted to the State Clearinghouse or for being <br />reviewed for adequacy by the County Planning Department. <br />(6) "County" - Orange County. <br />(7) "County Planning Department" or "Planning Department" <br />means the Orange County Planning Department. <br />(8) "Environmental Document" - an EA, EIS or FONSI, or all <br />of them. <br />(9) "Land Use Permit" means a zoning permit or subdivision <br />approval. building permit, site plan, or special use <br />permit. <br />(10) The term "major development project" shall include but <br />is not limited to shopping centers, Planned Developments <br />and industrial and commercial projects, but shall not <br />include any projects of less than two contiguous acres <br />in extent. <br />(11) "Public water supply" means a water supply system that <br />serves a city or town located partly or entirely within <br />Orange County that has a population in excess of 2,500. <br />(12) "Special- purpose Unit of Government" - includes any <br />special district or public authority. <br />(13) "State agency" - includes every department, agency, <br />institution, public authority, board, commission, <br />bureau, division, council, member of Council of State, <br />or officer of the State government of the State of North <br />Carolina. <br />(14) "State Clearinghouse" - the clearinghouse agency <br />established by the North Carolina Department of <br />Administration under the North Carolina Environmental <br />Policy Act. <br />(15) "Watersupply Watershed" - Land draining to existing <br />reservoirs which serve as public water supplies for the <br />County, or to potential reservoir sites which have been <br />designated for protection against treats to the water <br />quality of future water supplies. <br />IM <br />