Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 265 - Iowa Finance Authority › Chapter 46 - Water Quality Financing Program › Rule 265-46.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
"Authority"
means the Iowa finance
				authority.
"Cost"
means all costs, charges, expenses, or
				other indebtedness incurred by a loan recipient and determined by the authority
				as reasonable and necessary for carrying out all works and undertakings
				necessary or incidental to the accomplishment of any project.
"Eligible entity"
means a municipality or a
				landowner, as determined by the authority, a public utility as defined in Iowa
				Code section
				476.1,
				a specified industry, or a rural water district or rural water association as
				defined in Iowa Code section
				357A.1.
"Fund"
means the water quality financing
				program fund created pursuant to Iowa Code section
				16.153.
"Iowa nutrient reduction strategy"
means the
				same as defined in Iowa Code section
				455B.171.
"Loan recipient"
means an eligible entity that
				has received a loan under the program.
"Municipality"
means a governmental body such
				as a state agency or a political subdivision of the state. Municipality
				includes but is not limited to a city, city utility, county, soil and water
				conservation district, sanitary district, a subdistrict of any of the foregoing
				districts, a state agency, or other governmental body or corporation empowered
				to provide sewage collection and treatment services or drinking water, or any
				entity jointly exercising governmental powers pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 28E
				or 28F, or any other combination of two or more governmental bodies or
				corporations acting jointly under the laws of this state in connection with a
				project.
"Program "
means the water quality financing
				program created in Iowa Code chapter 16, subchapter X, part 4.
"Project"
means any combination of
				improvements, structures, developments, tasks, actions, constructions,
				modifications, operations, or practices designed to improve water quality that
				are proposed by an eligible entity and approved by the authority. "Project"
				includes but is not limited to any of the following:
1. In the context of water pollution control
			 facilities, the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, extension,
			 equipping, improvement, or rehabilitation of any works and facilities useful
			 for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage and industrial waste in a
			 sanitary manner, including treatment works as defined in Section 212 of the
			 federal Clean Water Act, or the implementation and development of management
			 programs established under Sections 319 and 320 of the federal Clean Water Act,
			 including construction and undertaking of nonpoint source water pollution
			 control projects and related development activities authorized under those
			 sections.
2. In the context of
			 drinking water facilities, the acquisition, construction, reconstruction,
			 extending, remodeling, improving, repairing, or equipping of waterworks, water
			 mains, extensions, or treatment facilities useful for providing potable water
			 to residents served by a water system, including the acquisition of real
			 property needed for any of the foregoing purposes, and such other purposes and
			 programs as may be authorized under the federal Safe Drinking Water
			 Act.
3. A project, operation, or
			 practice undertaken or carried out to address watershed protection, flood
			 prevention, or water quality improvement.
4. A project meeting the requirements of a
			 water resource restoration sponsor project under Iowa Code section 455B.
			 199.
"Specified industry"
means either of the
				following:
1. An entity engaged in an
			 industry identified in the Iowa nutrient reduction strategy, as determined by
			 the authority, which industry is or will be required pursuant to the Iowa
			 nutrient reduction strategy to collect data on the source, concentration and
			 mass of total nitrogen or total phosphorus in its effluent, and to evaluate
			 alternatives for reducing the amount of nutrients in its discharge;
			 or
2. An entity implementing
			 technology or operational improvements to reduce nutrients in its
			 discharge.