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SECTION 6
Mitigation for Secondary and Cumulative Impacts
The Town of Morrisville is an emerging community in western Wake County adjacent to
RDU International Airport and RTP. The Town of Cary is its immediate neighbor to the
south and west. This area repeatedly has ranked among the top regions in the country to
live, work, find a home, start a business, raise a family, and retire. The Town is convenient
to schools, parks, shopping, and entertainment. It embraces the best of city life and small
town environment and boasts that the Town provides everything needed to live, work, and
play in the “Heart of the Triangle.” Because of Morrisville’s proximity to RTP and the center
of the region, growth is expected to continue.
As the Town continues to grow, to ensure the quality of life for its residents and continue to
make it an attractive place to live and raise a family, Town leaders are taking a proactive
approach to protecting the environment, preserving open space, and protecting habitat. This
is being accomplished by the use of innovative planning approaches and techniques. As
part of this program, the Town is working to address environmental concerns related to
open space, water and wastewater infrastructure, transportation, and stormwater. The
Town has implemented programs to direct growth to a planned central core village,
preserve open space, protect riparian buffers, and maintain water quality through zoning
ordinances and stormwater programs.
This section identifies and discusses the Federal, State, and local programs; these programs
mitigate the potential SCI discussed in Section 5.
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Summary of Federal and State Regulations and Programs
There are several Federal and State regulations and programs that will mitigate the impacts
related to growth. These include: the ESA, the CWA, the Clean Air Act (CAA), the National
Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), stormwater regulations, programs to reduce nutrient
loading in the Neuse River basin and Jordan Lake watershed, archaeological protection
through various laws and programs, the Sedimentation and Pollution Control Act, the
Water Supply Watershed Program Clean Water Management Trust Fund (CWMTF), the
State Revolving Fund (SRF), and the Ecosystem Enhancement Program (EEP). Table 6-1
summarizes these programs and indicates whether local involvement is needed to
implement them fully. Where local programs are needed to implement the State and Federal
regulations and programs, the program description is provided under the Town regulations
and programs discussion in Section 6.2.