As used in this part, unless the context requires otherwise:
1. "Administration funds" means the sewage treatment works administration fund and the drinking water facilities administration fund.
2. "Authority" means the Iowa finance authority established in section 16.2.
3. "Clean Water Act" means the federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, Pub. L. No. 92-500, as amended by the Water Quality Act of 1987, Pub. L. No. 100-4, as published in 33 U.S.C. § 1251-1376.
4. "Cost" means all costs, charges, expenses, or other indebtedness incurred by a municipality or water system and determined by the director as reasonable and necessary for carrying out all works and undertakings necessary or incidental to the accomplishment of any project.
5. "Drinking water facilities administration fund" means the drinking water facilities administration fund established in section 455B.295.
6. "Drinking water treatment revolving loan fund" means the drinking water treatment revolving loan fund established in section 455B.295.
7. "Municipality" means a city, county, sanitary district, state agency, or other governmental body or corporation empowered to provide sewage collection and treatment services, or any combination of two or more of the governmental bodies or corporations acting jointly, in connection with a project.
8. "Program" means the Iowa sewage treatment and drinking water facilities financing program created pursuant to section 455B.294.
9. "Project" means one of the following:
a. In the context of sewage treatment facilities, the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, extension, equipping, improvement, or rehabilitation of any works and facilities useful for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage and industrial waste in a sanitary manner including treatment works as defined in section 212 of the Clean Water Act, or the implementation and development of management programs established under sections 319 and 320 of the Clean Water Act.
b. In the context of drinking water facilities, the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, extending, remodeling, improving, repairing, or equipping of waterworks, water mains, extensions, or treatment facilities useful for providing potable water to residents served by a water system, including the acquisition of real property needed for any of the foregoing purposes, and such other programs as may be authorized under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
10. "Revolving loan funds" means the sewage treatment works revolving loan fund and the drinking water treatment revolving loan fund.
11. "Safe Drinking Water Act" means Title XIV of the federal Public Health Service Act, commonly known as the "Safe Drinking Water Act", 42 U.S.C. § 300f et seq., as amended by the Safe Drinking Water Amendments of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104- 182.
12. "Sewage treatment works administration fund" means the sewage treatment works administration fund established in section 455B.295.
13. "Sewage treatment works revolving loan fund" means the sewage treatment works revolving loan fund established in section 455B.295.
14. "Water system" means any community water system or nonprofit noncommunity water system, each as defined in the Safe Drinking Water Act, that is eligible under the rules of the department to receive a loan under the program for the purposes of undertaking a project.
88 Acts, ch 1217, § 10; 89 Acts, ch 83, § 54; 95 Acts, ch 98, §1; 97 Acts, ch 4, §7
Referred to in § 16.131, 456A.17
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