Illinois Administrative Code › Title 47 - HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT › Part 100 - LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 100.30 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act": The Energy Assistance Act [305 ILCS 20 ].
"Customer of record": Any person who is receiving home energy
				  services from a home energy provider and has agreed to pay for those services
				  or did receive home energy services during the program year from a home energy
				  provider and has not changed the home energy provider for that type of home
				  energy service.
"Department": The Illinois Department of Commerce and
				  Economic Opportunity.
"Disabled Person": A person who is and who is expected to
				  continue indefinitely to be subject to a physical, developmental, visual,
				  hearing or mental disability, as defined in Section 4A of the Illinois
				  Identification Card Act [15
				  ILCS 335/4A ].
"DOE": United States Department of Energy.
"Dwelling Unit": A house, including a stationary mobile home,
				  an apartment, or a room or group of rooms occupied as separate, independent
				  living quarters.
"Elderly Person": A person who is 60 years of age or
				  older.
"Energy Crisis Intervention": Weather-related and supply
				  shortage emergencies.
"Good Faith Effort": The household making payment to the
				  household's energy vendors of 10% of the household's income for the past 90
				  days or 20% of the total amount owed for both primary and secondary utilities,
				  whichever method is more beneficial to the household, but in no case less than
				  $75.
"Grant Agreement": The contractual agreement between the
				  Department and Local Administering Agency, which includes the scope of work to
				  be provided, the budget, and all terms and conditions of the contract.
"HHS": United States Department of Health and Human
				  Services.
"Home Energy": A fuel used for space heating, space cooling,
				  water heating, cooking or in electrical appliances in residential
				  dwellings.
"Home Energy Provider": Any utility, municipal utility,
				  cooperative utility, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture,
				  corporation, company or other established business which provides primary
				  and/or secondary energy, including fuel, to residential dwellings and has
				  elected to participate in the LIHEAP. The primary energy provider is a home
				  energy provider that provides the primary source of energy; and the secondary
				  energy provider is a home energy provider that provides the secondary source of
				  energy.
"Household": All individuals who occupy a dwelling
				  unit.
"Household Income": Gross income received by all members of
				  the household who are residing in the household at the time of application.
				  Under the Energy Assistance Act, household income will be calculated for the
				  past 30 days. Households applying for Weatherization Assistance who have not
				  been approved to receive energy assistance under the Low-Income Home Energy
				  Assistance Act of 1981, will have their income calculated for the past 12
				  months, in accordance with 10 CFR 440(1995). Income does not include the
				  following:
Payments for vocational rehabilitation transportation and
				  maintenance;
Reimbursement for medical expenses;
Payments made to others on the household's behalf provided
				  that such payments were not directed by the household (i.e., bills paid or
				  purchases made by others);
Loans (including student loans);
Scholarships, subsistence amounts or student grants;
Assets drawn down as withdrawals from a bank;
Sale of property;
Sale of house or car;
Tax refunds;
Gifts;
One-time insurance payments or compensation for
				  injury;
Non-cash income;
One-time payments (e.g., death-related benefits, Circuit
				  Breaker Benefits);
Foster-grandparents and Senior Companions stipends;
Foster-parent reimbursement;
Food Stamps;
Workforce Investment Act of 1998 benefits;
Allowances, earnings and payments to individuals
				  participating in programs under the Act; and
Earned income of dependent minors (children under 18).
"IHWAP": The Illinois Home Weatherization Assistance Program,
				  referring to all components of the weatherization program that are designed to
				  help low-income Illinois residents save fuel and money while increasing the
				  comfort of their homes.
"Kitchen Facilities": An area used to store and prepare
				  food.
"Landlord": A person that receives payment for the rental of
				  his/her dwelling unit.
"Local Administering Agency (LAA)": A community action agency
				  or other community-based organization or unit of general purpose local
				  government or public agency which is authorized, in accordance with Section
				  100.40,
				  to administer LIHEAP funds received from the Department.
"Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981": Established
				  by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 ( P.L. 97-35, Title XXVI - Low
				  Income Home Energy Assistance) and amended by the Augustus F. Hawkins Human
				  Services Reauthorization Act of 1990 (
				  P.L.
				  101-501 ).
"Multi-Unit Building": A structure containing two or more
				  dwelling units.
"Owner Occupied Building": A building in which the owner is a
				  permanent resident in the building.
"Primary Energy Source": The energy or fuel type which is the
				  heat source for the central heating system of the residence, or if the
				  residence is not centrally heated, the energy or fuel type which constitutes
				  the principal source of space heating.
"Program Year": The period in time starting September 1 and
				  ending May 31 in the following year.
"Public Utility": An entity that is defined as a public
				  utility under Section 3-105 of the Public Utilities Act [220 ILCS 5/3-105 ]
				  and is subject to regulation by the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC).
"Rental Unit": A dwelling unit occupied by a person who pays
				  rent for the use of the dwelling unit.
"Secondary Energy Source": Energy or fuel used for other than
				  the primary source of heat. In order to receive a secondary direct vendor
				  payment, the secondary energy source must be an integral part of the heating
				  system or heat-related. An example of this would be the heat-related
				  electricity that is used to operate the controls and distribution (fan) system
				  of a furnace.
"Separate Independent Living Quarters": Living quarters in
				  which the household members do not live and eat with any other persons in the
				  structure and that have:
either direct access from the outside of the building or
				  through a common hall; and
complete kitchen facilities for the exclusive use of the
				  occupants.
"Single-Family Dwelling Unit": A structure containing no more
				  than one dwelling unit.
"State": The State of Illinois.
"Subgrantee": A Local Administering Agency managing an energy
				  assistance or weatherization project that receives a grant of funds awarded
				  under this Part from the State.
"Unit of General Purpose Local Government": Any city, county,
				  town, village or township.
"Weatherization Materials":
Caulking and weatherstripping of doors and windows;
Furnace efficiency modifications, including, but not limited
				  to:
replacement burners, furnaces and permanently installed space
				  heaters (including wood/coal burning stoves), or boilers or any combination
				  thereof;
devices for minimizing energy loss through heating systems,
				  chimney or venting devices;
products to improve the efficient circulation of heated water
				  or air throughout the dwelling unit (e.g., fan systems, piping, and duct work);
				  and
electrical or mechanical furnace ignition systems which
				  replace standing gas pilot lights;
Clock thermostats;
Ceiling, attic, wall, floor, and duct insulation;
Water heater insulation;
Storm windows, multi-glazed windows and doors, heat-absorbing
				  or heat-reflective window and door materials; and
The following insulating or energy conserving devices or
				  technologies:
Items to improve attic ventilation;
Vapor barriers;
Materials used as a patch to reduce infiltration through the
				  building envelope;
Water flow controllers;
Movable insulation systems for windows;
Material to construct vestibules;
Pipe and boiler insulation;
Heat exchangers;
Thermostat control systems;
Replacement windows and doors;
Materials used for water heater modifications which will
				  result in improved energy efficiency;
Hot water heat pumps;
Waste heat recovery devices;
Materials used for heating and cooling systems tune-ups,
				  repairs, and modifications which will result in improved energy efficiency;
				  and
Materials used for boiler tune-ups, repairs, and
				  modifications which will result in improved energy efficiency.
"Weatherization Project": A project conducted in a designated
				  geographic area which undertakes the weatherization of dwelling units that are
				  energy inefficient.
"Winter": The period from November 1 of any year through
				  April 30 of the following year (Section (3)(d) of the Act).
"Winter Energy Services": Home energy provided during the
				  six-month period of November through April of the following
				  year.