Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 250 - Department of Environmental Management › Chapter 150 - Water Resources › Subchapter 20 - Financial Assistance › Part 1 - Rules and Regulations for the State Revolving Fund (SRF) Program (250-RICR-150-20-1) › Section 250-RICR-150-20-1.5 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. "Bank" means the Rhode Island
				  Infrastructure Bank.
B. "Approved
				  project" means any project or portion thereof that has been issued a
				  Certificate of Approval by the DEM for financial assistance from the
				  Bank.
C. "Categorical Exclusion
				  (CE)" means a category of project which does not individually or cumulatively
				  have significant effects on the environment.
D. "Certificate of Approval (CA)" means the
				  project Certificate of Approval per R.I. Gen. Laws §
										46-12.2-8.
E. "Chief Executive Officer (CEO)" means the
				  mayor in any city, the president of the town council in any town and 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
				  any bond act or under the provisions of a local charter or other law.
F. "Clean Water Act (CWA)" means as defined
				  by R.I. Gen. Laws §
										46-12.2-2.
G. "Community Comprehensive Plan (CCP)" means
				  a plan prepared pursuant to the Rhode Island Comprehensive Planning and Land
				  Use Regulation Act, R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 45-22.2.
H. "Comprehensive Conservation and Management
				  Plan (CCMP)" means a plan prepared pursuant to the requirements of Section 320
				  of the Clean Water Act, 33
				  U.S.C. §
											1330 (2018).
I. "Corporation" means any corporate person,
				  including but not limited to: corporations, societies, associations, limited
				  liability companies, partnerships, and sole proprietorships.
J. "Cost(s)" as applied to any project, means
				  any or all costs, whenever incurred, in accordance with R.I. Gen. Laws
				  §§
										46-12.2-2 and
				  46-12.2-8.
K. "Cumulative impact" means the impact on
				  the environment which results from the incremental impact of project(s) when
				  added to other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions or
				  projects, regardless of which local governmental unit, corporation or person
				  undertakes such other actions or projects.
L. "DEM" means the Rhode Island Department of
				  Environmental Management.
M.
				  "Director" means the Director of DEM or his/her designee
N. "Effects" and "Impacts", as used in these
				  regulations, are synonymous. Effects include ecological (such as the effects on
				  natural resources and on the components, structures, and functioning of
				  affected ecosystems), aesthetic, historic, cultural, economic, social, and
				  health, whether direct, indirect, or cumulative. The distinctions are:
1 Direct effects are caused by project(s) and
				  occur at the same time and place.
2. Indirect effects are also caused by
				  project(s) and may be later in time or farther removed in distance, but are
				  still reasonably foreseeable. Indirect effects may include growth-inducing
				  effects and other effects related to induced changes in the pattern of land
				  use, population density or growth rate, and related effects on air and water
				  and other natural systems, including ecosystems.
3. Cumulative effects are caused by both the
				  direct and indirect effects of water pollution abatement projects, plus the
				  effects of other projects which are planned in the planning area.