Ala. Admin. Code r. 335-11-2-.01 - Definitions
The words and terms used in this chapter shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(a) "Act" means Alabama Act No.
97-415.
(b) "Allowable Costs" means
those costs that are eligible, reasonable, necessary, and allocable to the
project; permitted by generally accepted accounting principles; and approved by
the Department in the assistance agreement.
(c) "Applicant" means the public body that
has submitted an application to the Department for financial assistance from
the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.
(d) "Application" means the information
submitted by an applicant to the Department to obtain financial assistance,
including technical, environmental, and financial information necessary to
determine the eligibility for financial assistance from the Drinking Water
State Revolving Fund.
(e)
"Assistance Agreement" means a loan or grant from the Drinking Water State
Revolving Fund for the allowable costs of the project.
(f) "Clean Water State Revolving Fund" or
"CWSRF" means the Water Pollution Control Revolving Loan Fund described in
Chapter 335-11-1.
(g) "Corpus of
the Fund" means the capital of the program, funds generated for the existence
and sustenance of the program, a permanent fund kept for the basic expenditures
for the administration and survival of the program.
1. Appropriations to the DWSRF from the
Alabama Legislature; and,
2.
Capitalization grants from the EPA, net of administrative reserves and any
additional subsidy requirements.
(h) "Capitalized Interest" means the addition
of unpaid interest to the principal balance of a loan and increases when
repayments are postponed.
(i)
"Department" means the Alabama Department of Environmental Management
established by the Alabama Environmental Management Act, Code of Ala. 1975,
§§
22-22A-1
to
22-22A-13.
(j) "Drinking Water State Revolving Fund" or
"DWSRF" means the drinking water revolving loan fund established by the
Act.
(k) "EPA" means the United
States Environmental Protection Agency.
(l) "Fund" means the Drinking Water State
Revolving Fund.
(m) "Project" means
the defined services for the construction of improvements as approved by the
Department in the assistance agreement.
(n) "Project Priority List" means the list of
projects developed by the Department, which includes a priority ranking of
applicants eligible for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund assistance pursuant
to the federal Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996, as amended or
supplementary acts thereto.
(o)
"Project Costs" means costs for construction, procurement of equipment and
materials, contingency, demolition, legal and technical services, land
acquisition, and capitalized interest.
(p) "Public Body" means any county, state
agency, incorporated city or town, public corporation, district, cooperative,
association, authority or any instrumentality thereof created by or pursuant to
state law and having jurisdiction, power or authority with respect to the
transmission, sale, production or delivery of drinking water, including also a
combination of two or more of the foregoing.
(q) "Recipient" means any public body that
has received a Fund assistance agreement pursuant to this chapter.
(r) "Safe Drinking Water Act" or "SDWA" means
the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, 33 USC 300 f-j.
(s) "State Match" means funds provided by the
State as required by EPA to receive federal funding for the program.
(t) "Water treatment facilities" are
facilities needed for the transmission, production or delivery of drinking
water, including but not limited to, water storage tanks, treatment plants
(flocculation, sedimentation, and filtration), pumping stations, and water
pipes.
Notes
Authors: Aubrey H. White III, Kris Berry
Statutory Authority: Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 22-23B-1, 22-23B-2, 22-23B-3, 22-23B-12.
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