New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 1A - WATER SUPPLY LOAN PROGRAMS › Subchapter 7 - WATER SUPPLY REPLACEMENT PROJECTS (TYPE B LOANS OR TYPE C LOANS) › Section 7:1A-7.4 - Priority determination (Type B and C Loans)

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Priority ranking for Type B Loans shall be as set forth at 7:1A-5.2(a) through (h).
(b) For Type C Funding, a municipality having residences with contaminated wells as defined in this chapter may make application for and receive one award for a maximum of $ 8,000,000 subject to meeting the following criteria to the satisfaction of the Department.
1. The municipality shall have received notification from the Water Supply Element of the Department that groundwater contamination problems exist within its jurisdiction which adversely affect the potable water service.
2. The project shall be designed to relieve the impact caused by contaminated groundwater on existing individually owned residential water supplies. For the purpose of determining a project area, the following criteria shall be considered by the Department:
i. Extent of pollution;
ii. Area of potential migration; and
iii. Aquifer vulnerability.
3. In awarding a water supply loan, the Department may consider project expense and the degree of environmental impact which the project may have.
4. The project shall not conflict with any other State project nor enforcement proceedings.
5. The application shall be accompanied by adequate explanation of how the municipality plans to repay the loan and pay any other expenses necessary to fully complete and implement the project, the steps it has taken to implement this plan and the steps it plans to take before receiving the loan that will guarantee that at the time of the signing of the loan award document it will be irrevocably committed to repay the loan and pay any other expenses necessary to fully complete and implement the project. The municipality must comply with all standard loan provisions of the State of New Jersey.
6. The application shall be completed to the satisfaction of the Department and shall state and document how the loan will accomplish the goal set out in the application.
7. The municipality shall have a contiguous residential area containing more than 1,500 residential units that has been found by the local department of health, or board of health, and the county board of health, or department of health, to have at least 25 percent of the wells supplying potable water to the area with contaminants in excess of the maximum contaminant levels to be adopted by the Department pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act, 58:12A-1 et seq., as applicable.
8. The potable water supply for the residential area shall have been deemed by the county board of health or department of health to be unfit for human consumption, and the governing body of the municipality shall have adopted a resolution banning new construction in the area pending connection of the area to a public water supply system; or the Department shall have determined that all or a portion of the ground water serving the residential area to be a well-restriction area.
9. The municipality shall certify to the Department the estimated costs for extending a public water supply system to an eligible residential area that satisfies the criteria of this section.
10. In cases where the project costs exceed the $ 8,000,000 maximum loan amount, the application shall be accompanied by a detailed financial assessment indicating how the applicant will finance and repay the entire project costs.
11. Compliance with other criteria as set forth at 7:1A-5.1(c) through (e).
12. Monies from a Type C loan made hereunder are to be expended solely for the purpose of expanding the public water supply system to residences with contaminated wells as defined in this chapter.