Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 250 - Department of Environmental Management › Chapter 150 - Water Resources › Subchapter 20 - Financial Assistance › Part 4 - Rules and Regulations for the Grant Program for the Interceptor Bond Fund of the Rhode Island Clean Water Act Environmental Trust Fund (250-RICR-150-20-4) › Section 250-RICR-150-20-4.5 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Unless the context specifically indicates
				  otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in these rules and regulations shall
				  be as follows:
1. "Chief executive officer"
				  means the mayor in any city or town, the president of the town council in any
				  town, or the executive director of any authority or commission unless some
				  other officer or body is designated to perform the functions of a chief
				  executive officer under the provisions of a local charter or other law.
2. "Collector sewer" or "lateral
				  sewer" means a sewer that collects waste water from building service lines and
				  carries it by gravity to interceptor sewers.
3. "Construction" means any one or more of
				  the following: engineering, architectural, surveys, designs, plans, working
				  drawings, specifications, procedures, or other necessary actions, erection,
				  building, or the administration, inspection, or supervision of any of the
				  foregoing items.
4. "Costs" means
				  any or all costs relating to the designing, constructing and carrying out and
				  placing in operation a water pollution abatement project including, but not
				  limited to, the following: design, construction, expansion, improvement and
				  rehabilitation of facilities; demolitions and relocations; labor, materials,
				  machinery and equipment; services of architects, engineers, and other
				  consultants; borings, surveys, and other preliminary engineering costs; plans
				  and specifications; administrative costs; and any and all other expenses
				  necessary or incidental to the construction of a water pollution abatement
				  project.
5. "Department" or "DEM"
				  means the Department of Environmental Management of the State of Rhode
				  Island.
6. "Director" means the
				  Director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management or any
				  subordinate or subordinates to whom the Director has delegated the powers and
				  duties vested in him or her by R.I. Gen. Laws Chapters 46-12 or
				  42-17.1.
7. "Division" means the
				  Division of Water Resources, DEM.
8. "Facilities plan" or "FP" means a plan
				  prepared and approved by DEM pursuant to Section 201 of the Clean Water
				  Act.
9. "Fiscal year" means the
				  State of Rhode Island fiscal year: July 1 to June 30.
10. "Individual sewage disposal system" or
				  "ISDS" means any system of piping, tanks, disposal areas, alternative toilets
				  or other facilities designed to function as a unit to convey, store, treat
				  and/or dispose of sanitary sewage by means other than discharge into a public
				  sanitary sewer system.
11.
				  "Interceptor sewer" means gravity sewer which intercepts and conveys flows from
				  collector (or lateral) sewers to another interceptor sewer, pump
				  station/forcemain or directly to a waste water treatment facility
				  (WWTF).
12. "Local governmental
				  unit" means any city, town, district, commission, agency, authority, board or
				  other political subdivision or instrumentality of the state or of any political
				  subdivision.
13. "Project priority
				  list" means an annual ranked listing based on relative priority ratings of all
				  water pollution abatement projects in all categories for which federal or state
				  assistance is requested from DEM's assistance programs.
14. "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer which
				  conveys wastewater from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants,
				  and institutions.
15. "State guide
				  plan" means goals, policies, or plan elements for the physical, economic, and
				  social development of the state, adopted by the State Planning Council in
				  accordance with R.I. Gen. Laws §
											42-11-10.
16. "Wastewater treatment facility" or "WWTF"
				  means any equipment, devices, and systems for preventing, abating, reducing,
				  storing, conveying, treating, separating, recycling, reclaiming, or disposing
				  of sanitary or combined sewage.