Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 490 - Water Resources Board › Chapter 00 - N/A › Subchapter 00 - N/A › Part 7 - Water Quality Protection Charges › Section 490-RICR-00-00-7.2 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. The following words and terms when used in
				 this section shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly
				 indicates otherwise:
1. "Act" means R.I. Gen.
				 Laws Chapter 46-15.3, as amended.
2. "Bank" means Rhode Island Infrastructure
				 Bank as established by R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 46-12.2, as amended.
3. "Board" means the Rhode Island Water
				 Resources Board as established by R.I. Gen. Laws Chapters 46-15 and 15.1, as
				 amended.
4. "Eligible expenditure"
				 means the acquisition of a fee simple interest or of a conservation
				 restriction, as that term is defined in R.I. Gen. Laws §
											34-39-2(a)  and as
				 further detailed in R.I. Gen. Laws §
											46-15.3-4 and by the Board.
5. "Bank WQPC Fund" means the water quality
				 protection fund, which shall be in the custody of the Rhode Island
				 Infrastructure Bank. Such fund shall consist of such amounts as may be remitted
				 to the Bank by water suppliers of all water quality protection charges other
				 than:
a. the six and nine-tenths percent
				 (6.9%) of the charges collected and retained by each water supplier for any
				 purpose relating to the operation of the supplier, and
b. the fifty seven percent (57%) of the
				 charges collected and remitted by each supplier to the General Treasurer,
				 pursuant to the Act and R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 46-12.2.
6. "State WQPC Fund" means the water quality
				 protection fund which shall be in the custody of the General Treasurer. Such
				 fund shall consist of such amounts as may be remitted to the state by water
				 suppliers of all water quality protection charges other than:
a. the six and nine-tenths percent (6.9%) of
				 the charges collected and retained by each water supplier for any purpose
				 relating to the operation of the supplier, and
b. the thirty-six and one-tenths percent
				 (36.1 %) of the charges collected and remitted by each supplier to Rhode Island
				 Infrastructure Bank, pursuant to the Act and R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter
				 46-12.2.
7. "Receipt of
				 sale" means acknowledgement that public drinking water has been exchanged for
				 an agreed sum of money, or other consideration of any kind.
8. "Sale" means all retail sales of potable
				 water to end users for any purpose in the ordinary course of business by a
				 supplier, except for sales subject to the 65 years of age and older exemption,
				 the commercial agricultural producer exemption, or the out-of-state potable
				 water source exemption as set forth in the Act.
9. "Supplier(s) of public drinking water" or
				 "Water supplier and suppliers" means any city, town, district, or other
				 municipal, quasi-municipal or public or private corporation or company engaged
				 in the sale of potable water and the water supply business in Rhode
				 Island.
10. "Water quality
				 protection charge" means a water quality protection charge imposed upon
				 suppliers of public drinking water pursuant to the Act.
11. "WQPC eligible project list" means the
				 list of projects approved by the Board as eligible for funding from the Bank
				 WQPC Fund and as published by the Board.