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Memorandum of Understanding <br />Jordan Lake Partnership <br />Activities is conducted with advice of the Partnership Management Team, not as an <br />instrument of a joint agency. <br />3) Costs for General Activities. <br />Each signatory to this agreement will participate in supporting the costs of each year <br />of General Activities of the Partnership by payment to the City of Durham at one of <br />two levels: <br />a) Level I -signatories with 10,000 or more water service connections - $7,500 <br />b) Level II -signatories with less, than 10,000 water service connections - $2,500 <br />4) Invoicing for General Activities. <br />The City of Durham will invoice each signatory unit for their share of the General <br />Activities costs in January of each year, and each signatory will pay the invoice <br />within 30 days. <br />5) Additional Projects. <br />The signatories of this Memorandum of Understanding may seek additional <br />opportunities to cooperate on mutually beneficial planning and capital projects related <br />to water supply resources from Jordan Lake. Participation in an Additional Project is <br />at the discretion of each signatory of the Partnership. The paragraphs below <br />summarize currently identified Additional Projects that may be undertaken: <br />a) Regional Water Supply Planning Project. The objective of this Project will be to <br />develop a regional water supply plan for Jordan Lake. This will include <br />gathering, reviewing, and refining relevant water supply information from Jordan <br />Lake allocation holders as well as water systems connected to allocation holders. <br />Information collected will include, but not be limited to, water supply demand, <br />conservation measures, supply sources, and future needs. <br />b) Jordan Lake Allocation Request Project. The objective of this Project will be to <br />develop a jointly prepared and coordinated allocation requests to the <br />Environmental Management Commission for allocation of Jordan Lake water <br />supply storage. This may include preparing a common letter request for <br />participants in this Project and a summary of a Regional Water Supply Plan <br />(developed under a separate Project in item (i)) to support the requests. This task <br />may also include tailoring common information specifically for the applicants that <br />could be used for individual applications for allocations of water supply storage. <br />The goal is to prepare common information that reflects a regional water supply <br />plan that can be used for the individual system applications to the Environmental <br />Management Commission. <br />c) Jordan Lake Western Intake Preliminary Planning Project. This Project may <br />include study of the potential capacity and associated intake and water supply <br />facilities that maybe required to utilize any increased allocation of public water <br />supply from Jordan Lake. It will include preliminary engineering and costs <br />information to support an allocation application. This task will be limited to the <br />March 16, 2009 Page 3 of 17 <br />