Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 14 - INDEPENDENT AGENCIES › Subtitle 26 - MARYLAND ENERGY ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 14.26.02 - Green Building Tax Credit Program › Section 14.26.02.02 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. In this
				chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "Administration" means the Maryland
				Energy Administration.
(2)
				"Applicant" means a person or entity that applies for a grant from the
				Administration.
(3) "Application"
				means a request to receive a grant from the Administration.
(4) "Competitive funding opportunity" means a
				funding opportunity for which the Administration considers all complete
				applications submitted and selects those applications that best meet the
				criteria in the relevant FOA as determined by the Administration.
(5) "Complete application" means a timely
				application that includes all the information required by the FOA.
(6) "Evaluation criteria" means factors
				identified in the FOA that the Administration uses to determine which
				applications submitted in response to a FOA best meet the Administration's
				specified purpose.
(7) "Fund
				availability" means the presence of monies that the Administration is
				authorized to expend for a particular purpose, such as the discretionary
				offering of grants.
(8) "Funding
				opportunity announcement" or "FOA" means a notice to the public of a grant
				funding opportunity available for a specific period and purpose that includes
				the conditions, criteria, and guidelines developed by the
				Administration.
(9) Grant.
(a) "Grant" means the bestowing of a power,
				money, privilege, property, or other item of value that may be conditional,
				although without other consideration, by the Administration upon another
				party.
(b) Grant includes a rebate,
				technical assistance, and the provision of a portion or all a grantee's
				matching or cost sharing for a federal grant.
(10) "Grant agreement" means a written
				agreement between the Administration and a grantee with respect to a
				grant.
(11) "Noncompetitive funding
				opportunity" means a funding opportunity for which the Administration considers
				complete applications on a first-come, first-served basis.
(12) Person.
(a) "Person" means an individual, receiver,
				trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any
				kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited
				liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental
				entity.
(b) "Person" includes a
				not-for-profit corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust,
				limited liability company, firm, or association that is in good standing with
				the State.
(13) Project.
(a) "Project" means an activity or
				undertaking that is consistent with the requirements of a FOA.
(b) "Project" includes all activities and
				requirements specified in the FOA or grant agreement.
(14) "Rebate" is a noncompetitive funding
				opportunity for a project that is complete at the time the application is
				submitted to the Administration.
(15) "State" means the State of
				Maryland.
(16) State Agency.
(a) "State agency" means any administration,
				agency, association, authority, board, bureau, college, commission, committee,
				council, foundation, fund, department, institute, institution, public
				corporation, service, trust, university, or other unit of the Executive Branch
				of the State government and includes any subunit within any of these
				units.
(b) "State agency" does not
				include a bicounty or multicounty government agency or political subdivision of
				the State, including a county, municipality, special tax district, sanitary
				district, drainage district, soil conservation district, water supply district,
				or any entity organized under the general corporation laws of the
				State.
(17) "Strategic
				Energy Investment Fund" or "SEIF" has the meaning stated in State Government
				Article, §
										9-20B-05, Annotated
				Code of Maryland.
(18) "Strategic
				Energy Investment Program" means the program established and described in State
				Government Article, Title 9, Subtitle 20B, Annotated Code of
				Maryland.