415 ILCS 5/19.2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 415 - ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY|415 ILCS 5/ - Environmental Protection Act.|Title IV-A - Water Pollution Control and Public Water Supplies

 (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1019.2)Sec. 19.2.   As used in this Title, unless the context clearly  requires otherwise:(a) "Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.(b) "Fund" means the Water Revolving Fund created  pursuant to this Title, consisting of the Water Pollution Control Loan  Program, the Public Water Supply Loan Program,  and the Loan Support Program.(c) "Loan" means a loan made from the Water Pollution Control  Loan Program or the Public Water Supply Loan Program to an eligible applicant as a result of a  contractual agreement between the Agency and such applicant.(d) "Construction" means any one or more of the following which is  undertaken for a public purpose:  preliminary planning to determine the  feasibility of the treatment works or public water supply, engineering,  architectural, legal,  fiscal or economic investigations or studies, surveys, designs, plans,  working drawings, specifications, procedures or other necessary actions,  erection, building, acquisition, alteration, remodeling, improvement or  extension of treatment works or public water supplies, or the inspection or  supervision of any of  the foregoing items.  "Construction" also includes implementation of source  water quality protection measures and establishment and implementation of  wellhead protection programs in accordance with Section 1452(k)(1) of the  federal Safe Drinking Water Act.(e) "Intended use plan" means a plan which includes a description of the  short and long term goals and objectives of the Water Pollution Control Loan  Program and the Public Water Supply Loan Program, project categories,  discharge requirements, terms of financial assistance and the loan applicants  to be served.(f) "Treatment works" means treatment works, as defined in Section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, including, but not limited to, the following: any devices and systems owned by a local  government unit and used in the storage, treatment, recycling, and  reclamation of sewerage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature, including  intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, pumping  power and other equipment, and appurtenances; extensions,  improvements, remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; elements  essential to provide a reliable recycled supply, such as standby treatment  units and clear well facilities; any works, including site acquisition  of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process for  wastewater facilities; and any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing of municipal waste, including storm water runoff, or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems as those terms are defined in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.(g) "Local government unit" means a county, municipality, township,  municipal or county sewerage or utility authority, sanitary district, public  water district, improvement authority or any other political subdivision  whose primary  purpose is to construct, operate and maintain wastewater treatment facilities, including storm water treatment systems,  or public water supply facilities or both.(h) "Privately owned community water supply" means:(1) an investor-owned water utility, if under     Illinois Commerce Commission regulation and operating as a separate and distinct water utility;(2) a not-for-profit water corporation, if operating     specifically as a water utility; and(3) a mutually owned or cooperatively owned community     water system, if operating as a separate water utility. (Source: P.A. 98-782, eff. 7-23-14.)