Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part VI - Water Facilities Loan Board › Chapter 951 - WATER FACILITIES RESTORATION LOANS › Section 951.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter
				  have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Act
-32 Pa.C.S. Chapter 75 (relating to Water
				  Facilities Restoration Act).
Administrative staff
-Staff specifically
				  assigned by the Department of Environmental Resources to administer the regular
				  business of the Board.
Board
-The Water Facilities Loan Board.
Community water supply system
-A system for
				  the provision to the public of piped water for human consumption which services
				  at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or regularly
				  serves at least 25 year-round residents. The term includes water supply dams,
				  reservoirs or other sources and any collection, treatment, storage or
				  distribution facilities. Pumping and transmission facilities are included
				  within the term "distribution facilities."
Dam facility
-Dams other than water supply
				  dams and flood control dams.
Department
-The particular department serving
				  as staff to the board under section 7504 of the act (relating to Water
				  Facilities Loan Board). In matters relating to community water supply systems,
				  flood control facilities, and dam facilities, the term means the Department of
				  Environmental Resources. In matters relating to port facilities, the term means
				  the Department of Transportation.
Flood control facility
-Structural or
				  nonstructural projects and measures to correct, prevent, or reduce flood
				  damages including, but not limited to, dams, dikes, other flood control works,
				  floodproofing and storm water management projects.
Loan category
-The three funding categories
				  established in section 7510 of the act (relating to apportionment and
				  appropriation of funds), specifically:
(i) Community water supply system
				loans.
(ii) Flood control facility
				and supply dam facility loans.
(iii) Port facility loans.
Municipality
-A city, borough, incorporated
				  town, township, county or municipal authority.
Port facility
-A facility which enhances
				  interstate or international commerce upon tidal and inland waters of this
				  Commonwealth. The term includes piers, wharves, docks and similar structures to
				  which vessels may be secured; buildings on or contiguous to them; and equipment
				  and materials essential to the use of the structures and buildings for shipping
				  and commerce. The term includes only those facilities which are actively
				  engaged in interstate or international commerce destined to or from any of the
				  following Commonwealth ports:
(i)
Erie Port.
The lake-front area of Lake Erie in this
				Commonwealth between the Ohio state border on the west and the New York state
				border on the east.
(ii)
Philadelphia Port.
River-front property on the western bank of
				the Delaware River; those river-islands in the Delaware River under the
				jurisdiction of the Commonwealth commencing at the Morrisville-Trenton Railroad
				Bridge and flowing through the Counties of Bucks, Philadelphia, and Delaware to
				the Pennsylvania-Delaware border; and river-front and river-island property on
				both banks of the Schuylkill River from River Mile 0 ("RM") at the junction of
				the Delaware River and Schuylkill River in Philadelphia County flowing north to
				RM 6 at the University Avenue Bridge.
(iii)
Pittsburgh Port.
All
				river-island and river-front property on both sides of the Monongahela River
				commencing at the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border (RM 91.4) and flowing
				through the counties of Greene, Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland, and
				Allegheny to the Point (RM 0) at Pittsburgh; all river-island and river-front
				property on both sides of the Allegheny River commencing at RM 72.0, the
				terminus of the Allegheny River navigation channel (above East Brady,
				Pennsylvania), flowing through the counties of Clarion, Armstrong,
				Westmoreland, and Allegheny to the Point (RM 0) at Pittsburgh; and all
				river-island and river-front property on both sides of the Ohio River
				commencing at the Point (RM 0) at Pittsburgh and flowing through the counties
				of Allegheny and Beaver to the Pennsylvania-Ohio border (RM 40.0).
Project
-The combined eligible costs in a
				  water facilities loan application which the Board has determined to be eligible
				  for loan financing. The term includes the activities and eligible costs
				  described in an approved loan application which are within the scope of the
				  act.
Storm water management project
-A project
				  designed to manage the quantity, quality, velocity, or direction of storm water
				  runoff resulting from precipitation and snow or ice melt in a manner which
				  decreases the likelihood of injury to people or property.
Water facility
-A community water supply
				  sytem, flood control facility, dam facility, or port
				  facility.