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Request To forward the Draft Orange County Stormwater Program for Lands within the Neuse River Basin to NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources- Division of Water Quality for their review and comments which will be incorporated in a final document prior to March 9,2001. The deadline to submit the draft Program and Ordinance for preliminary comments is August 16,2001. NCDENR-DWQ staff will review the draft and provide the preliminary comments. Revisions based on these comments and comments from the Board of County Commissioners must be incorporated into the final Program and Ordinance for the final submittal before September 7, 2000. This date must be met in order to allow NCDENR-DWQ staff to place the Orange County Program and Ordinance on the agenda for the September 7,2000 meeting of the Environmental Management Commission. Approval from the EMC is required before implementation may take place in March 2001. If the March 7, 2001 deadline far implementation is not met, Orange County will be unable to reapply for a five year period, during which NCDENR-DWQ will administer the Neuse River Basin Stormwater Program for Orange County. Location Upper Neuse River Basin within Orange County which includes Upper and Lower Eno, Little River and Flat River watershed basins. Existing and Proposed Conditions Existing: Erosion and Sedimentation Control, and Water Supply Watershed Requirements currently in place. Proposed: Stormwater control requirements to regulate and reduce development impacts. For farming impacts, Soil and Water is currently implementing the Neuse Rules as they apply agriculture. Develo meat Process Schedule and Action • Public Hearing held May 22, 2000 • NCDENR-DWQ expects local program draft in August 2000 • Forward Draft Program to NCDENR-DWQ upon approval by the Board. Implementation by March 9, 2001 upon approval by DWQ, the Environmental Management Commission, and the Board of County Commissioners.