Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part VII - Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority › Chapter 963 - PENNSYLVANIA INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AUTHORITY ASSISTANCE › Section 963.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
Act
-The Pennsylvania Infrastructure
				  Investment Authority Act (35 P. S. §§
										751.1-751.20).
Administrative staff
-The staff specifically
				  assigned to administer the regular business of the Board.
Applicant
-An owner or operator of a facility
				  or system for the collection, treatment or disposal of wastewater, including
				  industrial wastewater, or for the collection, treatment, storage or
				  distribution of drinking water or of nonpoint source projects or estuary
				  protection projects that submits a written application requesting financial
				  assistance.
Approved applicant
-An applicant whose
				  application for financial assistance has been approved by the Board.
Authority
-The Pennsylvania Infrastructure
				  Investment Authority.
Binding commitment
-A legal obligation
				  between the Authority and an approved applicant that defines the terms and
				  conditions for financial assistance from the Authority including assistance
				  from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.
Board
-The Board of Directors of the
				  Authority.
Bonds
-Bonds, notes or their evidences of
				  indebtedness issued by the Authority under the act.
Borrower
-An approved applicant who has
				  entered into a binding commitment with the Authority.
Clean Streams Law
-The Clean Streams Law
				  (35
				  P. S. §§
										691.1-691.1001).
Clean Water Act
-The Federal Water Pollution
				  Control Act of 1977, as amended by the Water Quality Act of 1987 (33 U.S.C.A. §§
										1251-1387).
Comprehensive Water Facilities Plan
-A
				  comprehensive plan for wastewater disposal and piped drinking water facilities
				  prepared by the Department under section 11 of the act (35 P. S. §
										751.11).
Construction
-Actions necessary for the
				  erection, building, acquisition, alteration, remodeling, improvement or
				  expansion of drinking water or sewerage facilities or nonpoint source projects
				  or estuary protection projects.
County-prepared watershed plans
-Stormwater
				  management plans for the watershed prepared under the Storm Water Management
				  Act.
Department
-The Department of Environmental
				  Protection of the Commonwealth.
EPA
-The United States Environmental
				  Protection Agency.
Eligible cost
-The cost of labor, materials,
				  machinery and equipment, lands, property, rights and easements, plans and
				  specifications, surveys or estimates of costs and revenues, prefeasibility
				  studies, engineering and legal services and other expenses necessary or
				  incident to the acquisition, construction, improvement, expansion, extension,
				  repair or rehabilitation of all or part of a project.
Estuary protection project
-A project
				  necessary for development and implementation of an estuary conservation and
				  management plan under section 320 of The Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C.A. §
										1330).
Governmental unit
-An agency of the
				  Commonwealth or a county, municipality or school district, or an agency,
				  instrumentality, authority or corporation thereof; or a public body having
				  local or regional jurisdiction or power.
Industrial wastewater project
-The eligible
				  costs associated with the acquisition, construction, improvement, expansion,
				  extension, repair or rehabilitation of all or part of a facility or system for
				  the collection, treatment or disposal of industrial wastewater resulting from
				  manufacturing or industry or from another establishment.
Nonpoint source project
-A project which does
				  not have a discernable or confined discrete conveyance, and which is necessary
				  for the implementation of a nonpoint source pollution control program under
				  section 319 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C.A. §
										1329).
Operation/maintenance costs
-Costs associated
				  with activities required to assure the dependable, efficient and economical
				  function of wastewater or drinking water facilities, nonpoint source projects
				  and estuary protection projects or costs associated with the preservation of
				  the functional integrity and efficiency of equipment and structures, including
				  preventative maintenance and replacement equipment.
Part I Permit
-A National Pollutant Discharge
				  Elimination System (NPDES) permit issued by the Department under section 5 of
				  The Clean Streams Law (35 P. S. §
										691.5) and section 402 of the Clean Water Act
				  (33 U.S.C.A. §
										1342).
Part II permit
-A Water Quality Management
				  permit issued by the Department under section 5 of The Clean Streams
				  Law.
Project
-The eligible costs associated with
				  the acquisition, construction, improvement, expansion, extension, repair or
				  rehabilitation of all or part of any system or facility, whether publicly or
				  privately owned:
(i) For the
				collection, treatment or disposal of wastewater, including industrial waste, or
				for nonpoint source projects or estuary protection projects.
(ii) For the supply, treatment, storage or
				distribution of drinking water.
(iii) In a public system or facility for the
				control of stormwater, which may include, the transport, storage and
				infiltration of stormwater, or costs for the best management practices to
				address point or nonpoint source pollution associated with stormwater runoff,
				or other innovative techniques identified in the county-prepared watershed plan
				under the Storm Water Management Act.
Regional stormwater facility
-A stormwater
				  facility located at a strategic location in a watershed, generally at the
				  confluence of a stream and its tributaries, to provide optimum
				  detention/retention and water quality benefits.
Second opinion project review
-A review and
				  evaluation of a project engineering design which shall include the analysis of
				  the basic functions of a facility, system or process and shall identify
				  alternatives, if any, for achieving these basic functions at lower costs or
				  increased revenues. The evaluation shall be conducted by a design engineer or
				  design engineering firm, at the discretion of the applicant. The design
				  engineer or design engineering firm chosen by the applicant shall be
				  independent of the project engineer and shall be a professional engineer
				  licensed by the Commonwealth.
Sewerage facilities
-Devices and systems for
				  the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal or domestic
				  wastewater or necessary to reliably recycle or reuse water at the most
				  economical cost over the useful life of the works. The term includes
				  intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, individual
				  systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and their appurtenances;
				  extensions, improvement, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof;
				  elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby
				  treatment units and clear well facilities; and works, including site
				  acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process
				  or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from treatment,
				  including land for composting sludge and temporary storage of the compost and
				  land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land treatment systems
				  before land application; or another method or system for preventing, abating,
				  reducing, storing, treating, separating or disposing of municipal waste or
				  industrial waste, including waste in combined stormwater and sanitary sewer
				  systems.
Sewage Facilities Act
-The Pennsylvania
				  Sewage Facilities Act (35 P. S. §§
										750.1-750.20).
Sewerage project
-The eligible cost
				  associated with the acquisition, construction, improvement, expansion,
				  extension, repair or rehabilitation of all or part of a sewerage facility or
				  sewerage system for the collection, treatment or disposal of municipal or
				  domestic wastewater.
Sewerage system
-An organized method, device
				  or technique considered as an operable unit for preventing, abating, reducing,
				  collecting, storing, conveying, treating, separating or disposing of municipal
				  or domestic wastewater, including waste in combined stormwater and sanitary
				  sewers.
Stormwater
-Drainage runoff from the surface
				  of the land resulting from precipitation or snow or ice melt.
Stormwater facility
-A structure to capture,
				  hold, treat or convey stormwater runoff to reduce peak rates or volumes of
				  runoff or enhance water quality, or both.
Storm Water Management Act
-35 P. S.
				  §§ 680.1-680.17.
Stormwater system
-A group of stormwater
				  facilities considered an operating unit to reduce peak rates or volumes of
				  stormwater runoff or enhance water quality, or both.
Useful life
-The period of time for which a
				  facility operates and serves its intended purpose.
User
-A single connection to a system.
Wastewater project
-An industrial wastewater
				  project or a sewerage project.
Water Facilities Loan Board
-The board
				  established under
				  32 Pa.C.S. §
										7504
				  (relating to Water Facilities Loan Board).
Water facility
-A part of a water system used
				  for collection, treatment, storage or distribution of drinking water.
Water project
-The eligible cost associated
				  with the acquisition, construction, improvement, expansion, extension, repair
				  or rehabilitation of all or part of a facility or system whether publicly or
				  privately owned for the supply, treatment, storage or distibution of water for
				  human consumption.
Watershed
-The entire region or area drained
				  by a river or other body of water, whether natural or artificial.
Water system
-A system which provides water
				  to the public for human consumption which has at least 15 service connections
				  used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least 25 of the same
				  persons over 6 months per year. The term includes collection, treatment,
				  storage and distribution facilities under control of the operator of the system
				  and used in connection with the system. The term includes collection or
				  pretreatment storage facilities not under such control which are used in
				  connection with the system.