16.131A - DEFINITIONS.
16.131A DEFINITIONS.
As used in section 16.131, this section, and sections 16.132
through 16.134, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "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, as amended.
2. "Commission" means the environmental protection commission
created under section 455A.6.
3. "Cost" means all costs, charges, expenses, or other
indebtedness incurred by a loan recipient and determined by the
department as reasonable and necessary for carrying out all works and
undertakings necessary or incidental to the accomplishment of any
project.
4. "Department" means the department of natural resources
created in section 455A.2.
5. "Eligible entity" means a person eligible under the
provisions of the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and
the commission rules to receive loans for projects from any of the
revolving loan funds.
6. "Loan recipient" means an eligible entity that has
received a loan under the program.
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 drinking water,
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 water pollution control works and
drinking water facilities financing program created pursuant to
section 455B.294.
9. "Project" means one of the following:
a. In the context of water pollution control 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, including construction and undertaking of
nonpoint source water pollution control projects and related
development activities authorized under those sections.
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 purposes and programs as may be authorized
under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
10. "Revolving loan funds" means the funds of the program
established under sections 16.133A and 455B.295.
11. "Safe Drinking Water Act" means Tit. 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, as amended.
12. "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. Section History: Recent Form
2009 Acts, ch 30, §5