Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 250 - Department of Environmental Management › Chapter 170 - Resilience and Climate Change › Subchapter 05 - Financial Assistance › Part 2 - Rules and Regulations for the Wastewater Treatment Facility Resiliency Fund › Section 250-RICR-170-05-2.4 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. For the purposes of this regulation, the
				  following terms are defined as follows:
1.
				  "Applicant" means any governmental entity applying for monies under these rules
				  and regulations.
2. "Bank" means
				  the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank as established by R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter
				  46-12.2.
3. "Clean Water State
				  Revolving Fund" or "CWSRF" means Title VI of the federal Clean Water Act,
				  33 U.S.C. §
												1383.
4. "Climate resilience project" means
				  projects that protect wastewater collection or treatment assets and property
				  from the impacts of climate change and severe weather events and shall include
				  hardening of existing systems or those currently planned for construction or
				  the removal or relocation of existing infrastructure.
5. "Construction" means the building,
				  alteration, rehabilitation, improvement, or extension of a project, including
				  the necessary planning, design, and engineering associated with the specific
				  project.
6. "Department" means the
				  Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.
7. "Director" means the Director of the
				  Department of Environmental Management or the designee(s) to whom the Director
				  has delegated powers and duties vested in the Director by these
				  regulations.
8. "Fund" means the
				  Wastewater Treatment Facility Resilience Fund as established by these
				  regulations.
9. "Governmental
				  entity" means any Rhode Island state or local governmental body or Rhode Island
				  state agency and any entity publicly funded, appointed or otherwise organized
				  by federal, R.I. state or local government for governmental purposes.
10. "Grant" means money given to eligible
				  entities with no repayment due if the grantee is in substantial compliance with
				  all terms of the grant.
11. "Grant
				  match" means the required 50% match on Bond Funding. At the sole discretion of
				  the Review Committee, in-kind services may be considered as credit towards the
				  50% match.
12. "Permit" means an
				  authorization, license, approval, or equivalent control document issued by the
				  Department or another governmental entity.
13. "Recipient" means any party (or parties),
				  municipal or quasi-state, that has been awarded funding pursuant to these
				  regulations and is responsible for the implementation of a climate resilience
				  project.
14. "Resilience" means the
				  capacity of individuals, institutions, business, and natural systems within
				  Rhode Island to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what chronic stresses and
				  weather events they experience.
15.
				  "Wastewater" means human waste from any receptacles intended to receive or
				  retain bodily waste products, and any organic or non-biological wastes from
				  residences, businesses, institutions, and industries, or any combination of the
				  above, as well as any water used as a means of conveyance of such wastes, which
				  is intended to enter a Wastewater Treatment Facility for collection,
				  conveyance, treatment, and discharge in accordance with a Rhode Island
				  Pollution Discharge Elimination permit issued by Department.
16. "Wastewater treatment facility" or
				  "Wastewater infrastructure" means a municipally- or quasi-state-owned group or
				  assemblage of processes, devices, and structures for the conveyance, treatment,
				  or removal of objectionable constituents of Wastewater. A Wastewater Treatment
				  Facility shall include, but not be limited to, all physically connected
				  Wastewater collection system piping, pumping, storage, physical, chemical
				  and/or biological treatment, filtering, sludge composting or incineration, and
				  disinfection systems. For the purposes of these rules and regulations, a
				  Wastewater Treatment Facility shall not be:
a. An Onsite Wastewater Treatment System,
				  which does not discharge into surface waters but discharges into subsurface
				  waters; or,
b. Any privately owned
				  plumbing, low-pressure grinder pumps, or sewers.