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ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 4, 2002 <br /> Action Age�{da <br /> Item No. y-Q_ <br /> SUBJECT: No Fault Well Repair Fund Policy <br /> DEPARTMENT: Health PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(8): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Special Use Permit Excerpt Rosemary Summers, ext 2411 <br /> No Fault Well Repair Fund Policy Ron Holdway, ext. 2371 <br /> Process and Time Guidelines TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Application Form Hillsborough 73245'IS1 <br /> Sample Reports from ABC's Consultant Chapel Hill 968.1501 <br /> Board of Health Hearing Procedures Durham 660-7331 <br /> 4f7102 Community Meeting Mebane 336-2274!031 <br /> Announcement Distributed by <br /> Empowerment Project <br /> 4/7102 Meeting Attendance Sign-in List <br /> Signed Comments from Community <br /> Members <br /> Brochure Distributed by Empowerment <br /> Project <br /> 5130102 Planning Director Memorandum <br /> Clarifying Issues In Empowerment <br /> Preset Brochure <br /> PURPOSE: To consider approving the policy for administering the No Fault Well Repair Fund. <br /> BACKGROUND: The Board of Commissions approved a special use permit for American <br /> Stone to continue operating the quarry off NC Highway 54 through 2030. As a condition of the <br /> special use permit,American Stone established a No Fault Well Repair Fund (NFWRF)for <br /> Music residents whose property Is within 3,000 feet of the perimeter of the quarry and who <br /> experience well failures not directly aftinhutable to the quarry operation. The initial fund amount <br /> is$87,500 and can be augmented by$20,000 per year if needed to meet the claims of the <br /> residents within the defined zone. Well failures that are a "probable resulC of the quarry <br /> operation most be handled exclusively by American Slane at their expense. <br /> Staff attended two meetings regarding the NFWRF. The Met induced an American Stone <br /> representative and their consultants along with planning and environmera l health staff A <br /> second meeting included the County Manager and additional representatives from the County's <br /> Planning Department, Environmental Health, Budget Office, and Engineers Office. As a result <br /> of these meetings, it was agreed that the health department staff would be the primary oversight <br /> agency for administering the fund. The points below are expanded in the attached policy <br /> statement <br />