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9 <br />F <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 3, 1992 <br />SUBJECT: Access to Potential Landfill Sites <br />DEPARTMENT County Manager <br />ATTACHMENT(S) <br />Proposed Resolution <br />Proposed Interlocal Agreement <br />NCGS 40A -11 <br />1 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No <br />PUBLIC HEARING YES NO X <br />INFORMATION CONTACT <br />County Manager, ext 2300 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBER <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Mebane 227 -2031 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a resolution and interlocal agreement between <br />Orange County and the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill that authorizes <br />the Town of Chapel Hill to act on behalf of the jurisdictions <br />comprising the Landfill Owners' Group in exercising the statutory <br />authority granted to each jurisdiction to conduct testing of potential <br />sites for a sanitary landfill. <br />BACKGROUND: The Landfill Search Committee has identified four <br />potential landfill sites - OC -2, OC -9, OC -11, and OC -17 - that will <br />require subsurface testing for further evaluation of the suitability of <br />each site. The results of this testing would permit development of <br />preliminary engineering plans and cost estimates. These would allow <br />the LSC to compare alternative sites along the lines of social <br />implications, capital and operating costs, and environmental effects. <br />The County has authority under GS 40A -11 to enter upon lands specified <br />for the purpose of making surveys, borings, examinations and appraisals <br />as may be necessary or expedient in selecting a site for a future <br />landfill. Property owners can receive compensation for damages that <br />occur as a result of required testing. At the May 19, 1992 meeting, <br />the Board deferred a decision on exercising that statutory authority <br />pending a detailed report on the landfill site search process. <br />Landfill Owners'Group staff and Joyce Engineering presented that report <br />to the Board of Commissioners at its most recent meeting on June 29, <br />1992. <br />The Town of Chapel Hill adopted a resolution similar to the one <br />proposed here on May 11. The Town of Carrboro Board of Aldermen is <br />scheduled to receive a landfill search process report from LOG <br />staff and Joyce Engineering at their August 11 meeting, and to <br />act on a similar resolution after that report or at a subsequent <br />meeting. <br />