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2 f engineering consultant to assist their members in taking advantage of the "group permitting" process allowed by the new EPA regulations. The group process allows and encourages the formation of groups of individuals, entities or local governmental units that own or operate similar or "like" facilities, which fall under the EPA stormwater regulations,) to apply for a group permit. Under the group permitting process, ten percent of all the like facilities in the group: undergo an extensive engineering study to determine the chemical composition and the pollutant loading of stormwater'il runoff from the studied facilities. The results of the studies are submitted to the EPA, who will use the information to develop the permitting requirements which will be applied) to all of the like facilities in the group. The costs for the engineering studies, which are expected to range between $25,000 and $35,000 per site, can be evenly split among all of the participants in the permitting process for each like facility. The group permitting process results in significant savings in engineering costs over individual permitting of each site. Nearly every local government unit in the state operates at least one facility which falls under EPA's definition of an industrial facility and is impacted by the new stormwater runoff regulations. Orange County has two facilities which will be affected: Fairview Park, which is a covered over landfill, and the County motor pool facility. The Orange County Board of Education's school bus garage in Hillsborough is also affected.