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4 questionnaires asking their members to list the types of industrial applications that each member owns or controls. Orange County immediately replied to the questionnaire by expressing interest in the group formation and group permitting process. Overall response to the NCACC and NCLM solicitation of interest was so overwhelming that an environmental consultant, ERCE, was retained to begin the group permitting process paperwork. On February 21, 1991, the NCACC and the NCLM sent out additional information and asked jurisdictions for confirmation of intent to participate in the NCACC /NCLM group. in order to be included in the group we have notified NCACC of our intent to participate for the Orange County motor pool facility and Fairview Park. We have also submitted the Orange County Schools' bus garage for inclusion. The correspondence of February 21 from the NCACC and NCLM also included site specific questionnaires, provided by the environmental consultant, for each of the sites which would have to be permitted. All sites requiring permitting were investigated, to the extent required to complete the questionnaires, by the County or School Board staff having supervisory responsibility for each site and by the County Engineer. The questionnaires were completed by the County Engineer and mailed to the NCACC /NCLM environmental consultant on March 1, 1991. At this time, there remains much that is unclear about the EPA stormwater permit requirements and the NCACC /NCLM joint permitting endeavor. it is not clear when NCACC /NCLM will require the payment of fees for the group permitting or what the additional costs will be. The NCACC's best estimates for costs are between $680 and $5560 for landfills and between $1410 and $3230 for transportation facilities. These costs will probably be finalized and become due during the last half of calendar year 1991 or early in 1992. Estimates on permitting costs will be included in the FY 91 -92 budget. No one, not even the NC Division of Environmental Management which is to enforce the EPA stormwater regulations, is sure what will be required of sites which obtain stormwater permits. DEM has indicated that EPA has apparently not progressed farther than determining permitting application deadlines and has not determined what effluent limitations will be or how compliance with those limitations will be achieved. DEM believes that stormwater quality monitoring will probably be required, at least in the early stages of the evolution of the stormwater regulations. At some later