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 450.2 - Application for Funding for Construction Loans

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Applicants for a construction loan under the Bond law shall
				  file an application as provided by the Department. A complete application shall
				  contain the following information:
(1)
				A description of the project, with illustrations or maps showing project
				features as appropriate to the type of project, signed by a civil engineer,
				registered pursuant to California law. For a ground water project, a geologist,
				registered pursuant to California law, must also sign.
(2) Information demonstrating the engineering
				feasibility of the project.
(3)
				Information regarding the economic justification for the project, including a
				discussion of the least costly alternative to the proposed project which will
				produce similar results and is engineeringly, financially, and environmentally
				feasible.
(4) Information regarding
				critical need for the project.
(5)
				For ground water recharge projects and in-lieu recharge projects, information
				regarding the hydrogeologic feasibility of the project and the amount of net
				overdraft reduction that should result from the project.
(6) For water conservation projects,
				schematic drawings of water routings before and after the project, showing the
				effect of the project on diversions, deliveries to customers, evaporation,
				transpiration, deep percolation and surface drainage, as well as information
				regarding the net water savings to be derived as a result of the project. This
				includes identifying the source of the water to be conserved and the use
				proposed to be made of the conserved water.
(7) For water supply projects and local
				projects, a description of the existing water supply problems and how the
				proposed project will remedy them, the source of the water supply proposed to
				be developed, the proposed use to be made of the developed water supply, and
				the nature and extent of statewide interest in the project.
(8) Copies of any studies previously prepared
				for the project.
(9) A statement
				describing the availability of all water supplies needed for the life of the
				project, and the water rights the applicant has for the project, addressing the
				type and duration of those rights.
(10) A timetable for project
				completion.
(11) An estimated total
				cost of the project, showing details of eligible project costs.
(12) The amount of the State loan requested;
				the sources and amounts of other funds to be applied toward the project; the
				proposed loan term, not to exceed 20 years; the proposed method of loan
				repayment; and other information regarding the financial feasibility of the
				project.
(13) Information regarding
				the financial status of the applicant, including it's ability to repay a
				loan.
(14) Citations of the
				applicant's statutory enabling laws, and authority to contract with the State
				for a loan of the proposed type and duration, including a brief description of
				the procedural steps required by the applicant's enabling laws to contract with
				the State for a loan.
(15) A
				resolution of the applicant's governing body authorizing a designated
				representative to submit the application.
(16) All environmental documentation
				available at the time the application is filed, together with a plan and
				schedule for completing all other required environmental documentation and a
				disclosure of any anticipated problems.
(17) A disclosure of all known public support
				and opposition to the project at the time of application. This includes the
				comments of all interested individuals in the area impacted by the project and
				not solely of the beneficiaries of the project.
(18) A statement regarding whether there is a
				water management program in the area impacted by the project, and if so, how
				the proposed project fits within it.
(19) A statement listing all relevant local
				land use or general plans, and describing how the proposed project fits within
				those plans.
(20) A list of all
				permits that will be required for the project, together with a plan and
				schedule for obtaining those permits and a disclosure of any anticipated
				problems.
(21) Additional
				Documentation. During the administration of this program and the evaluation of
				applications, additional engineering, technical, financial, economic,
				hydrologic, geologic, soil and water quality, environmental, water rights, and
				legal analyses and justification may be required by the Department.
1. New section
				  filed 5-21-87; operative 6-20-87 (Register 87, No. 22).
2. Amendment
				  filed 9-21-90; operative 10-21-90 (Register 90, No. 44).
3.
				  Amendment of subsection (7) and NOTE filed 1-28-98; operative 2-27-98 (Register
				  98, No. 5).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
					 12879.4 and
					 78680.20, Water
					 Code. Reference: Sections
					 12879.2,
					 12879.4,
					 12879.5,
					 12879.6,
					 78680.8,
					 78680.12 and
					 78680.14, Water
					 Code, Section
					 21150,
					 Public Resources Code.