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27 <br />strictly <br />OWAS <br />would l <br />before <br />and <br />itation of the VnW expansion. The granting of this benefit would be <br />the discretion of the owner of the particular impoundment, either <br />the Town of Hillsborough or the City of Durham. Each governing board <br />approached and asked about its willingness to entertain such a move <br />y details are worked out It is probably not feasible to consider flits <br />in the case of Jordan Lake because of the multi-jurisdictional watersheds <br />allocations. <br />v onm. for In to the Pro - It was suggested that one incentive to <br />draw existing systems into the program could be the waiving of fees for the first <br />consultation and inspection for volunteering ownem <br />Slidin Fee Scale - This incentive was mentioned not only in the context of having <br />differing fees for various sizeltypes of systems, but also when the ability to pay is a <br />factor. At this time, Enviromneeutal Health does have varying fee charges in <br />permitting of syst®s based on the design-wasWwatw flow of the structure and, this <br />procedure can easily be ortended to re-inspections. Cully, all systems sized at <br />600 gallbns per day and under are assessed like fees and those above that figure are <br />based on the total gallonage. <br />The issue of developing sliding fee scales based on ability to pay preserits a <br />different' challenge however, as there is no staff ability in place for qualifying <br />applicants. Even if some method of initial qualification evolves, the ability and <br />mechanics for re-certification for each round of hapections is onerous and <br />MANAGENUM RE-INSPECTIONS <br />Eatry into the Program <br />There seemed to be consensus on new and repaired systems being automatically <br />entered i4to the program and that taking on all systems in the county immediately <br />or in a short period of time is not practical. Volunteers will always be accepted as <br />staffing allows, even without the expansion being approved. Requiring entrance <br />for properties having just been transferred was also discussed, but there was no <br />agreement on this option because the housing tuunover rate for rural Orange county <br />was not known by any member of the committee and therefore the impact of this <br />regM=ent is not known. Staff will try to extract some figures from the overall <br />county turnover rate and then estimate the yearly nwnber of homes this <br />requirement would affect. The mechanics. for this re T*ement are still discussed <br />below. <br />New 3yMons -- In the current W nMp rules, all newly installed alternative and <br />Pump systems are automatically entered into the re-inspections cycle as-part of the <br />permitting process. The main classes of systems which now require entry are low <br />pressure pipe systems (LPPs), pump conventional systems and large residential <br />Dftmr iC _-V In