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.% ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 5, 1991 Action Agenda Item # 1= "_ SUBJECT: REPORT: State Watershed Protection - Procedures and Implications for Orange County. DEPARTMENT: PLANNING ATTACHMENT(S): * Staff Report (provided as separate enclosure) * Draft 7 -15 Planning Board Minutes * Summary of Recommendations from 7 -15 Planning Board PUBLIC HEARING: YES _X _N0 INFORMATION CONTACT: Dave Stancil, Extension 2590 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732 -8181 Chapel Hill - 967 -9251 Durham - 688 -7331 Mebane - 227 -2031 PURPOSE: To receive a report on the implications of state watershed protection rules and classifications on current County policies /procedures. BACKGROUND: The Water Supply Watershed Protection Act (1989) requires every local government in the state to protect water supply watersheds to, at a minimum, the level of new standards adopted by the Environmental Management Commission (EMC). The EMC has proposed preliminary classifications for each of Orange County's 11 water supply watersheds. Although recently- adopted legislation in the General Assembly will delay the classification and implementation process, the EMC will hold a public hearing as scheduled on Thursday, August 15, 1991 at the Archdale Building in Raleigh (7:00 p.m.). The public hearing is one of six regional hearings for the EMC to hear comment from local governments, the development community, private firms and interested citizens on the preliminary classifications and adopted rules. More significantly, this hearing offers perhaps the only chance to request different classifications for watersheds than those proposed. In order to brief the Board on the issues and implications of these rules and standards, the Planning staff has prepared a report that: