Ala. Admin. Code r. 335-11-2-.01

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 1, October 31, 2024

Section 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.

Ala. Admin. Code r. 335-11-2-.01

New Rule: Filed October 23, 2012; effective November 27, 2012.

Amended by Alabama Administrative Monthly Volume XXXVIII, Issue No. 05, February 28, 2020, eff. 4/13/2020.

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.