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■ Develop a pilot septic tank monitoring program through the N.C. Division of Environmental <br />Health to be possibly replicated by local governments. , <br />Enhance educational programs to inform homeowners on the function and maintenance of <br />septic tanks and non - conventional wastewater treatments systems. <br />Develop a repair fund to assist low- income individuals to pay for repair of failing systems in <br />water supply watersheds and sensitive coastal areas. <br />Objective 3C.3: Develop measures to improve stormwater management. <br />■ Require vegetative buffers along all waterways in North Carolina, and mitigate to an <br />equivalent degree any exceptions to the preservation of the buffers. <br />■ Ensure low tax value, as in present use value taxation, for required buffers. <br />■ Develop policies that eliminate loss of streams to piping and other development. <br />■ Adopt stormwater management plans for state - funded projects consistent with state and <br />federal stormwater regulations. <br />■ Develop and implement a coordinated and comprehensive statewide stormwater management <br />education and awareness program. <br />Encourage local governments to require stormwater management plans consistent with state <br />and federal stormwater regulations. <br />Allow local governments to include stormwater management fees in annual tax billings, <br />including applying unpaid fees as a lien against property. <br />■ Link funding for infrastructure to implemented stormwater management plans that are <br />sufficient to meet water quality standards. <br />Objective 3CA: Wetlands protection should be strengthened. <br />■ Articulate statewide goal of no net loss of pristine and coastal wetlands, as defined in Section <br />404 of the Clean Water Act. <br />■ Develop accurate mapping of wetlands and a wetlands inventory tracking system. <br />■ Locate state - funded projects in a manner that avoid wetlands where possible or practical and <br />requires mitigation where impacts are unavoidable. <br />■ Support and adequately fund the Wetlands Restoration Program, already in existence. <br />■ Develop the long -term capability within state government to check and monitor all lands set <br />aside for protection. Maintenance, enforcement, monitoring should be a general requirement <br />,13 <br />