California Code of Regulations › Title 23 - Waters › Division 2 - Department of Water Resources › Chapter 2.3 - Loan Programs Under the Water Conservation and Water Quality Bond Law of 1986, and the Water Conservation Bond Law of 1988 and Loan and Grant Programs for Local Projects Under the Safe, Clean, Reliable Water Supply Act › Section 450.1 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The words used in this subchapter have the meanings set forth
				  below:
(a) "Bond law" means the Water
				Conservation and Water Quality Bond Law of 1986 as set forth in chapter 6.1 of
				division 7 of the Water Code (commencing at section
				13450), and the Water Conservation
				Bond Law of 1988 as set forth in chapter 4.7 of part 6 of division 6 of the
				Water Code (commencing at section
				12879) and Local Projects, under
				the Safe, Clean, Reliable Water Supply Act, set forth in Article 4 of Chapter
				6, Division 24 of the Water Code (commencing with section
				78680).
(b) "Applicant" means a public local agency
				or public agency as defined in the bond law which files an application for
				funding under the provisions of the bond law with the Department of Water
				Resources.
(c) "Ground water
				recharge project" means a project involving capital outlay expenditures to
				construct, expand, renovate or restructure land and facilities for artificial
				ground water recharge or in-lieu recharge, and may include the purchase of land
				or easements, but not the purchase of surface waters for use in lieu of pumping
				groundwater.
(d) "Water
				conservation project" means a project consisting of voluntary, cost-effective
				capital outlay water conservation programs as defined in the bond
				law.
(e) "Water supply project"
				means any canal, dam, reservoir, groundwater extraction facility or other
				construction or improvement, including rehabilitation of a dam for water supply
				purposes, by a local agency for the diversion, storage or distribution of water
				which will remedy existing water supply problems. This includes any such
				project for the storage or distribution of reclaimed water for reuse.
(f) "Local Project" means a project as
				defined in section
				78680.4(b) of the
				water code.
(g) "Eligible project
				costs" means costs associated with (c), (d), (e), and (f), above that may be
				paid out of the proceeds of a loan made under the bond law. It includes the
				reasonable costs of engineering, land and easement acquisition, legal fees,
				preparation of the application to establish eligibility, preparation of
				environmental documentation, environmental mitigation, and construction. Costs
				incurred prior to applying for or entering into a contract for funding,
				including costs for a feasibility study, may be reimbursed from the loan
				proceeds at the Department's discretion.
Costs which are not eligible include:
(1) operation and maintenance
				costs,
(2) purchase of movable
				equipment not an integral part of the project,
(3) establishing a reserve fund,
(4) purchase of water supplies, and
(5) payment of principal or interest of
				existing indebtedness or any interest payments unless:
(A) The debt is incurred after issuance of a
				letter of commitment of funds by the Department;
(B) The Department agrees in writing to the
				eligibility of the costs for reimbursement before the debt is incurred;
				and
(C) The purposes for which the
				debt is incurred are otherwise eligible project
				costs.