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AGENDA <br />Commission for the Environment <br />January 12, 2015 <br />7:30 D.m. <br />Richard Whitted Meeting Facility (Room 250) <br />300 West Tryon Street, Hillsborough <br />Time Item Title <br />7:30 I. Call to Order <br />7:32 II. Additions or Changes to Agenda <br />7:35 III. <br />Approval of Minutes — December 8 (Attachment 1) <br />7:40 IV. <br />Committee Meetings <br />Following initial direction from the Chair, the CFE will break out into its standing committees (Air <br />and Energy, Land, Water Resources) to continue prioritizing issues as assigned. (Attachment 2) <br />8:15 V. <br />Committee Reports <br />The committees will report on what they have prioritized as issues to work on in 2015 <br />8:45 VI. <br />Public Outreach — SOE Report <br />The CFE will discuss ways of conveying information from the State of the Environment report to <br />the general public. The information on various topics (such as fracking, invasive species, etc.) <br />could be reformatted for different venues. (Attachment 3) <br />9:15 VII. <br />Updates and Information Items <br />Staff and /or CFE members will provide updates on the following items: <br />➢ County to purchase rollcarts for rural recycling (Attachment 4) <br />➢ Prospects for fracking in North Carolina (Attachments 5 -6) <br />➢ Coal ash toxicity (Attachment 7) <br />➢ Relative rates of ozone production by different car types (Attachment 8) <br />➢ The Nature of Orange photo contest 2015 (Attachment 9) <br />➢ OWASA draft biosolids management report (Pt. 1) (Attachment 10): <br />http: //www.owasa.org /biosolids -re clip -pro ram <br />.http:,Lwww.owasa.org/Data/Sites/l/mediLalwhatWeDoLwastewater 2014- <br />12-19 d raft- biosol ids- report - -- 1- final,�df <br />9:30 IX. Adjournment <br />Nextmeeting., February 9 (Solid Waste Admin. Building — Chapel Hill) <br />