Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 490 - Water Resources Board › Chapter 00 - N/A › Subchapter 00 - N/A › Part 6 - RI Water Facilities Program Administrative Procedure › Section 490-RICR-00-00-6.2 - Grant Procedures and Requirements

Current through June 14, 2024
6.2.1
Scope
This section prescribes procedures and requirements for the
					 award of State grants of twenty-five (25) percent and/or fifty (50) percent of
					 the cost of approved water facilities pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 46-15.2,
					 as amended.
6.2.2
Definitions
A. The following words
				 and terms, when used in this section shall have the following meaning:
1. "Act" means the Rhode Island Water
				 Facilities Assistance Program, R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 46-15.2, as
				 amended.
2. "Applicant" means
				 municipal and quasi-municipal potable water supply agency that applies for a
				 grant pursuant to the provisions of these rules and regulations.
3. "Board" means the Rhode Island Water
				 Resources Board as established by R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 46-15, as
				 amended.
4. "Construct" and
				 "Construction" means to build or rebuild in a systematic manner.
5. "Council" means the State Planning Council
				 as established by R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 42-11, as amended.
6. "Design life" means an assigned and/or given
				 time period of project usefulness as determined by a systematic program of
				 engineering.
7. "Distribution
				 facilities" means the pipes and appurtenant facilities employed specifically to
				 deliver, to dispense, to render, or to circulate potable water directly for the
				 benefit of a consumer or a community of consumers.
8. "Division" means the Division of Public
				 Utilities and Carriers established by R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 39-1, as
				 amended.
9. "Eligible project scope"
				 means the construction of potable water supply transmission facilities consisting
				 of pipes and appurtenances including but not limited to pump stations, valves,
				 surge chambers, storage facilities which convey potable water, the acquisition of
				 land or rights of way, and necessary engineering and design services.
10. "Grantee" means an applicant which has
				 received a grant pursuant to the Rhode Island Water Facilities Assistance
				 Program, R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 46-15.2, as amended, and these procedures, and
				 which has executed a grant award document.
11. "Interconnection" means a potable water
				 supply connection with another potable water supply system.
12. "Intersystem facilities" means transmission
				 facilities designed and constructed by the owner of any public water system
				 having the capacity to serve two or more water systems at the same
				 time.
13. "Municipal" and
				 "Quasi-municipal" means any political subdivision within the State of Rhode
				 Island established by Public Law of the State of Rhode Island and/or established
				 by legislatively approved Home Rule Charter(s) for Cities and Towns Amendment of
				 the Constitution of the State of Rhode Island.
14. "Project" means any work relating to the
				 construction of potable water supply transmission facilities.
15. "Transmission facilities" means the pipes
				 and appurtenances pumping stations, and storage facilities required to carry
				 potable water from a water source(s) to, or throughout an area served by, or to
				 be served by, a public water system(s) for the specific purpose of supplying
				 potable water to support a general population. Transmission facilities do not
				 include the distribution system. Final determination of transmission facilities
				 is the prerogative of the Board.
16.
				 "Water source" means the origin and/or starting point from which potable water is
				 transmitted.