Ohio Administrative Code › Title 164 - Ohio Public Works Commission › Chapter 164-2 - Clean Ohio Funding › Section 164-2-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
For the purposes of Chapter 164-2 of
				the Administrative Code:
(A)
								"Commission" means the Ohio public works
			 commission.
(B)
								"Declaration of restrictions" are real property
			 restrictions supplied by the commission to applicants to be recorded as a deed
			 restriction which can be modified at the discretion of the director as
			 necessary to meet the specific needs of any project but must be compliant with
			 the requirements of the clean Ohio program.
(C)
								"Director" means
			 the director of the Ohio public works commission appointed under section
			 164.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(D)
								"Local match" are funds or resources to be used as
			 matching funds for the project as set forth in division (A)(6) of section
			 164.23 of the Revised Code and
			 may not consist of Ohio public works funds.
(E)
								"Local political
			 subdivision" means a county, municipal corporation, township, conservancy
			 district, soil and water conservation district, lake facilities authority,
			 joint recreation district, park district, or other similar park authority, as
			 set forth in section 164.20 of the Revised
			 Code.
(F)
								"Natural resources assistance council" or "NRAC" is the
			 council and its members appointed by each district public works integrating
			 committee or the executive committee of the integrating committee pursuant to
			 section 164.21 of the Revised
			 Code.
(G)
								"Nonprofit organization" means an environmental and
			 conservation organization that is exempt from federal income taxation pursuant
			 to 26 U.S.C.
			 501(a) and described in
			 26 U.S.C.
			 501(c) and formed to protect
			 the natural environment, as set forth in section
			 164.20 of the Revised
			 Code.
(H)
								"Ohio public works commission" or "OPWC" means the Ohio
			 public works commission created by section
			 164.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(I)
								"Project applicant" or "applicant" means the local
			 political subdivision or nonprofit organization which submitted a request for
			 financial assistance to a district, that a district has subsequently formally
			 submitted to the director of the Ohio public works commission or to the
			 administrator of the Ohio small government capital improvements commission
			 under section 164.06 of the Revised
			 Code.
(J)
								"Project application" or "application" means a request
			 for financial assistance formally submitted by a district to the director or to
			 the administrator of the Ohio small government capital improvements commission
			 pursuant to section 164.06 of the Revised
			 Code.
(K)
								"Reimbursable prepaids" are project expenses paid by
			 the applicant within one year of the date of the project
			 agreement.
(L)
								"Workswise portal" is the online access maintained by
			 the commission for processing applications and all appurtenant information
			 relating to the programs administered by the commission.