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7 <br />DURHAM •`*4 Co �, It <br />City of Durham 4 <br />Durham County <br />i rjy �• O • <br />October, .29, 1991 <br />Mr. Steve Zoufaly <br />Division of Environmental Management <br />P.O. Box 29535 <br />Raleigh, NC 27626-0535 <br />Dear Mr. Zoufaly, <br />On behalf of the City of Durham and Durham County, we are pleased to submit comments to the North <br />Carolina Environmental Management Commission on the water supply watershed rules and proposed <br />classifications. Attached you will find identical resolutions, one adopted by the City of Durham and one <br />adopted by Durham County, expressing our common concerns about the proposed rules and classifications. <br />Citizens, appointed officials and elected leaders in Durham have spent considerable time and energy to study <br />the proposed rules and classifications. Overall, the City and County applaud the State's efforts to address <br />inter jurisdictional conflicts that could and do arise when we try to protect watersheds that stretch across <br />political boundaries. The degree of public interest over the past few months reflects the difficulty of the <br />task. <br />We would commend to you and the Environmental Management Commission the approach of flexibility <br />we are proposing. It is very important, we feel, to establish a solid basis for the regulations and the objectives <br />they are attempting to achieve. Each water supply is unique and the rules need to acknowledge ways to <br />address that. The rules also need to allow for inter jurisdictional partnerships between those benefiting from <br />clean water and those who must be restricted to protect clean water. These inter jurisdictional partnerships <br />should be allowed in dealing with flexible development standards, as well as, in handling the stormwater <br />monitoring responsibilities proposed in the rules. <br />Please feel free to contact Paul Norby, Director of the Durham City- County Planning Department, at (919) <br />560-4137, if you would like further information on the specific points addressed in these resolutions. Thank <br />you for the opportunity to comment. <br />Z�/ilV. ell, 4hairman <br />liam <br />oard of County Commissioners <br />Chester 7enkins, May <br />City of Durham <br />cc Members of the City of Durham City Council <br />Members of the Durham County Board of Commissioners <br />