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I ® North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Richard B Ham on, Executive Director April 8, 2005 Mr. Ed Kerwin Executive Director Orange Water and Sewer Authority P O Box 366 Carrboro, North Carolina 27510 Dear Mr, Kerwin: North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission ( NCWRC) staff have been working with the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) since the summer of 2003 to fulfill the mitigation requirements presented in the US Army Corp of Engineers 404 permit for construction of the Cane Creek Reservoir. Some of the special conditions of the permit required that public hunting be allowed on the Cane Creek Reservoir and the 500 acre mitigation tract. The OWASA Board of Directors approved the mitigation with a resolution in 1980. Further, the conditions were accepted by then Executive Director of OWASA, Mr, Everett Billingsley, as evidenced by his signature on the permit, July 22, 1981. The Wildlife Resources Commission is not satisfied that these mitigation conditions have been met. The Commission has regulations in place that will`allow NCWRC to begin a hunting program beginning this fall on the Cane Creek Reservoir and the 500 acre mitigation tract. This program will include permit waterfowl hunts on the reservoir; archery hunting three days per week (September 10 — November 4) on the mitigation tract; permit muzzle loader hunts after November 5a' on the mitigation tract; small game hunts after October 15 on the mitigation tract (not to conflict with permit deer hunts); and permit turkey bunts during the April/May turkey season on the mitigation tract.