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Amendments to the Orange County 27 <br />Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Ordinance <br />(Votes: The underlined text will be added to the Ordinances and the crossed- through text deleted. <br />Most of these amendments are required by the North Carolina Sedimentation Control <br />Commission for the Ordinances to comply with the State's Model Ordinance. Other <br />amendments not required by the State are noted in the commentary as being proposed by <br />the staff. <br />All Sections of the Ordinance <br />The subheadings underlined and in this font shown in the following amendments will be added and others, <br />not shown in this document, . will be added throughout the Ordinances to improve readability. Every example <br />of these headings is not included in these amendments because they do not change the Ordinance. <br />Section 3 Definitions <br />C rnoletion of Construction or Development: means that no further land - disturbing activity is required on a <br />hase of a RLoject excgRt that which is necessa for establishing a mmanent gMund cover. <br />COMAffWT ARY.• This definition will be added to the Ordinance. <br />Department: means the North Carolina Department of <br />Environment. Health. and Natural Resources. <br />COMMENT ARY.- The name of this State agency has been changed. <br />Discharge Point: means that point or j22ints at which runoff leaves a tract of land. <br />COMMENTARY.• This definition will be added to the Ordinance. <br />High uali Waters: means those classified as such in 15A NCAC 2B.0101 (e) 5 - General Procedures, <br />whack is into rated herein by reference to include further amendments Rmrsuant to G.S. 15013-11(2)., <br />Ex lanato Note: The tom lete official definition of High gK4ity Waters is contained in 15A NCAC <br />2 .0101 e 5 - General rocedures. In Lmeral Hi h i Waters are defined b the Division of <br />Environmental Management as those waters which are: those rated as excellent based on biological and <br />physical /chemical characteristics: native trout waters, vriMM or fnactional nursery areas] critical habitat <br />areas, all water gWIY watersheds which are either classified as WS -I or WS -II or those for which a <br />formal 2ggtion for reclassification as WS-I or WS -II has hM received by the Division of nvironmental <br />Mane t• and all Class SA shellfish waters. <br />COMMENTARY.• This definition along with the note will be added to the Ordinance. <br />h Ouality Water n : means areas in the Coastal Counties that are within 575 feet of HU h <br />Quality Waters and for the remainder of the state areas that are within one mile and drain to HOW'S. <br />C0A6ffjV iARY.• High Quality Waters in Orange County are UmversityLake (WS -I) and Cane Creek (WS- <br />I) wxershedr and the Nonh and South Forks of the Little River (proposed WS -I) because of their water <br />supply watershed classifications. Seven Mile Creek would become an HQW if the requested change to its <br />classification is approved by the State. <br />Local Government: means any county, incorporated village, town or city, or any combination of counties, <br />1 -15 -91 <br />