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Amendments to the Orange County 6 <br />Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Ordinance <br />Notes: 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 Ordinance 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 />Coro leti n of Construction or Development: that no furLej land- listurbin activi is mguired on a <br />base of a POO 'ect exceyt that which is Rw;esjM for establis ' a rmanent gmund cover. <br />COMMEAT MY.• This definition will be added to the Ordinance. <br />Department: means the North Carolina Department of <br />Envifonment. Health and Natural Resources. <br />COMMENMY.• The name of this State agency has been changed. <br />DischgW Point: means that into ints at w 'ch ruffloff leaves a tract of land. <br />COAIWMARY.• This definition will be added to the Ordinance. <br />High QMity W : means those classified as such in 15A NCAC 213.0101(e) .5 - General Procedures <br />which is into rated herein -by ref gence to include further am is t to G.S. 150B -14 c . <br />Ex lane Note: The co late affi—cial definition of High QWily Waters is contained in 15A CAC <br />2B.0101 5 - General Procedures. In eral h Waters are defined by the Division of <br />End nn=tal Manaement as those M21018 whic are: those ted as gxcell t based on biological and <br />h sisal/ characteristics• native trout waters• ri or functional nurse areas• critical habitat <br />water su 1 wa eds which are either classified as WS -I or WS -II or those for which a <br />formal mfition for reclassification as WS -I or WS -II has hM received by the Division- of Environmental <br />Mena a t• and all Class SA shellfish waters. <br />COARY.• This definition along with the note will be added to the Ordinance. <br />High QualijLWAter (How) zones: means areas the Coastal Counties that are within 575 feet of High <br />Oualijy Waters and for the remainder of the state areas that are within one mile and drain to H W's. <br />COALINNTARK High Quality Waters in Orange County are Un wmltyLake (WS -I) and Cane Creek (WS_ <br />I) watersheds and the North 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 />5 -9 -91 <br />