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NCACC <br />Page 2 of 6 <br />Environmental Impact Assessment and ensure adequate opportunities for public and <br />local official comment. <br />Authorize county oversight of bio- solids disposal — Support legislation to <br />authorize counties to regulate, but not prohibit, bio- solids application activities, <br />including the acceptable 'classes" of bio- solids for application and the prohibition of <br />bio- solids application in certain environmentally sensitive areas. <br />Clarify yard waste facility runoff statutes — Seek legislation to clarify that runoff <br />from yard waste staging areas at county landfills does not require wastewater <br />treatment. <br />Create study commission on horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing and <br />uranium mining — Seek legislation to create a Study Commission on horizontal <br />drilling and hydraulic fracturing for shale gas deposits and uranium mining. <br />Health and Human Services <br />Ensure adequate mental health funding <br />• Seek legislation to ensure adequate capacity of state - funded acute psychiatric <br />beds. <br />• Oppose legislation to close state - funded beds until there is adequate capacity <br />statewide. <br />• Seek legislation to maintain the existing levels of state funding for community <br />mental health services. <br />Retain state aid to counties — Seek legislation to retain the State Aid to Counties to <br />maintain federal matching funds. <br />Allow county flexibility to organize local human services. <br />Seek legislation to allow counties to organize human services based on <br />community need, including the removal of the population threshold in 153A -77. <br />Oppose legislation that would mandate consolidation of social services <br />functions. <br />Maintain childcare subsidy funds and allocate to counties. <br />• Seek legislation to allocate all childcare subsidy funding directly to counties. <br />• Oppose legislation that would reduce childcare subsidy funding. <br />Maintain TANF funds to counties — Seek legislation to maintain existing levels of <br />county TANF funding to support and fund county DSS programs. <br />Maintain childcare subsidy administration — Seek legislation to maintain the Child <br />Care Subsidy Administration funding at 5 percent. <br />Increase state /county special assistance residency requirements — Seek <br />legislation to increase the number of days to establish residency for Special <br />Assistance from 90 to 180 days, except for persons who have entered the state to be <br />supported by a close relative. <br />Require back -up generators for adult -care homes — Seek legislation to require all <br />new adult -care homes to have back -up generators prior to receiving certificates of <br />occupancy and require all existing adult -care homes to be equipped with back -up <br />http:// www. ncacc. org /legislativegoals_2011- 12.html 1/27/2012 <br />Page 150 <br />