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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 7, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~- C. <br />SUBJECT: Memorandum of Agreement between Town of Hillsborough and Orange County <br />for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Phase II Services <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Erosion Control Division <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) 9/14/04 Memo <br />2) 10/7/04 Memo <br />3) Implementation Schedule <br />4) MOA.042505 <br />5-7) Maps (3) <br />8) Phase II Information <br />9) NCLM Memo.072804 <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict 245-2592 <br />Ren Ivies 245-2586 <br />Will Autry 245-2588 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive information on the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System <br />(NPDES) Phase II Stormwater Management Program, and consider approval of a <br />Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for implementation of Program for Town of Hillsborough by <br />Planning & Inspections' Erosion Control Division. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Orange County has been handling soil erosion and sedimentation control for the Town of <br />Hillsborough since 1975, and has been administering the Neuse Buffer Rules far the town since <br />2001. These programs are paid far by developers through permitting fees. Different than the <br />existing services, the required implementation of the NPDES Phase II Stormwater Management <br />Program is not exclusively related to new development, but a responsibility of the Town as the <br />owner of a Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System, or MS4. Accordingly, monies to implement <br />the program would come from the Town of Hillsborough's general fund. Below is a history of <br />NPDES, and what it entails. <br />HisfON: In 1972, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program was <br />established under the authority of the Clean Water Act. Phase I of the NPDES stormwater <br />program was established in 1990. It required NPDES permit coverage for municipalities that <br />had populations of 100,000 or more.. In North Carolina, there are six Phase I communities. <br />Phase II of the NPDES Stormwater program was signed into law in December 1999. The Phase <br />II program extends permit coverage to smaller (< 100,000 pop.) communities and public entities <br />