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Similar legislation was proposed in the 1991 legislative session in the form of Senate bill 539. It provided for a separate county school impact tax district and for funds from the school levy to be earmarked for school capital improvements. However, impact tax authority drew strong opposition, led by the Durham-Chapel Hill Homebuilders' Association. The impact tax proposal eventually lost the support of Orange County's local legislative delegation. When Senate bill 539 was enacted? all of the impact tax authority for Orange County local governments had been deleted'. However, the 1987 impact fee authority was retained, and the 1991 local act that was adopted did refocus attention on county school construction impact fees: it amended Orange County's 1987 impact-fee enabling legislation to make any school impact fee ordinance adopted by the county applicable everywhere in the county, including those areas within the planning jurisdiction of any municipality. In early 1992 the Orange County Planning and Inspections Department published the initial version of a repod outlining the developme.nt of an'impact fee system to fund schools.9 The report presented a methodology for calculating school impact fees for Orange County and the calculations establishing the costs of renovating, upgrading, and constructing school facilities that could be reflected in a county school impact fee. The impact fee report was based on figures developed by the county's School Capital Needs Advisory committee to estimate the costs of providing s. 1991 N.C. Sess. Laws ch. 324. 9. A Technical Report on the Calculation of Proportionate Impact Fees for FTnancing Public School Capital Needs in Orange County (Draft), Orange County Planning and Inspections Department, Dec. 1991. A final version of this report was published in June 1993 (hereinafler Revised Report 32 on School Impact Fee Calculationl. 2'?