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35 <br />Amendments to the Orange County <br />Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Ordinance <br />Apri114, 2000 <br />NOTE: The underlined text will be added to the Ordinance and the struck-through text will be deleted. The <br />amendments (with only one exception as noted) are being made so that the County Ordinance conforms to the <br />amended Model Ordinance of the North Carolina Sedimentation Control Commission. These changes are the <br />result of legislative changes, the State's staff enforcement experience and the recommendations of their attorneys. <br />Section 3 Definitions <br />Affiliate - a person that directly. or indirectly through one or more intermediaries. controls, is controlled by, or is <br />under common control of another Gerson. <br />Parent - an affiliate that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries. controls, another person- <br />Subsidiary - an affiliate that is directly. or indirectly through one ar more intermediaries, controlled by another <br />ep_rson, <br />Commentary: These new definitions will be placed within the current list in alphabetical order. <br />Section 5 Scope and Exclusions (County-wide) <br />This Ordinance shall not apply to the following land-disturbing activities: <br />A. Agriculture <br />Activities. includingr the breedin an~eraaing of livestock, undertaken on a ngric~ltural land for the <br />production of plants and animals useful to man including but not i~imited to: <br />1. forages and sod crops. grains and feed crops. tobacco cotton, and peanuts <br />2. dai ~ animals and dai roducts• <br />3. poultry and poultryproducts; <br />4. livestock, including beef cattle, sheep, swine. horses, ponies, mules- or ~, includin~Lthe <br />breedin and in of an or all such animals• <br />5. bees and aniary_products• <br />6. fur stets. <br />B. Forestland <br />Activities undertaken on forestland for the production and harvesting of timber and timber products and <br />conducted in accordance with best management Gractices_ set out in Forest Practice Guidelines Related <br />to Water Quality as adopted by the Department. TflGnd-disturbing activity <br />undertaken on forestland for the production and harvesting of timber and timber products is not <br />conducted in accordance with Forest Practice Guidelines Related [o Water Quality, the provisions of this <br />ordinance shall apply to such activity and any related land-disturbing activity on the ti act. <br />C: Mining <br />.Activities for which a ermit is <br />C:1My Documents\ECFORMS~AMENDS2000.doc <br />