Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 060 - Lands and Investments, Office of › Sub-Agency 0003 - Loan and Investment Board › Chapter 31 - DRINKING WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND (DWSRF) › Section 31-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) "Board" means the State Loan and
				Investment Board.
(b) "Capacity
				Development" means that a community water system or nontransient noncommunity
				water system can adequately demonstrate that it has technical, managerial and
				financial capabilities to ensure current and future operations of the water
				system in accordance with all drinking water regulations in effect.
(c) "Community Water System" means a public
				water supply which has at least fifteen (15) service connections used
				year-round by residents, or that regularly provides water to at least
				twenty-five (25) residents year-round, including, but not limited to,
				municipalities and water districts.
(d) "DEQ" means the Wyoming Department of
				Environmental Quality.
(e)
				"Director" means the Director of the Office of State Lands and
				Investments.
(f) "Emergency" means
				a direct threat to the continued operation of a Community Water
				System.
(g) "Handbook of
				Procedures" means the State Drinking Water Revolving Loan Account Handbook of
				Procedures.
(h) "Intended Use Plan
				(IUP)" means the annual plan adopted by the State Loan and Investment Board and
				submitted to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) that
				describes how the state intends to use the money in the Drinking Water
				Revolving Loan Account.
(i)
				"Municipalities" means incorporated towns and cities in Wyoming.
(j) "Noncommunity Water System" means a
				public water supply which is not a Community Water System, including but not
				limited to, public schools, state park recreational areas and state highway
				public rest areas.
(k) "Office"
				means the Office of State Lands and Investments which provides administrative
				and operational management of programs for the State Loan and Investment
				Board.
(l) "Operator" means the
				person who is directly responsible for and in charge of the operation of a
				water treatment plant or water distribution system.
(m) "Priority List" means the list of
				projects expected to receive financial assistance under the Program, ranked in
				accordance with a priority system developed under Section 1452(b)(2)(A) of the
				Safe Drinking Water Act.
(n)
				"Program" means the drinking water state revolving fund program pursuant to
				Section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U. S.C. § 300
				J-12).
(o) "Publicly Owned Water
				System" means a water system which is owned, operated, managed and maintained
				by an entity of the state, county, city, township, town, school district, water
				district, improvement district, joint powers board or any other entity
				constituting a political subdivision under the laws of this state which
				provides water for use and consumption of the general public through pipes and
				other constructed conveyances, and which is not owned, operated, managed or
				maintained by a private individual, association or corporation.
(p) "Safe Drinking Water Act" (SDWA) means
				the federal Safe Drinking Water Act including the 1996 amendments (
				Public Law
				104-182,
				42 U.S.C.
				§
										300 f et seq.).
(q) "Select Water Committee" means a state
				legislative committee comprised of six (6) members from the Wyoming State
				Senate and six (6) members from the Wyoming House of Representatives
				(W.S.
				21-11-101 ).
(r) "Special district" means improvement and
				service districts and irrigation districts in Wyoming.
(s) " State environmental review process"
				(SERP) means a review by DEQ pursuant to W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				16-1-304(a) of potential
				environmental impacts of projects receiving assistance from the state drinking
				water revolving loan account.
(t)
				"Substantial completion" means that stage in a project when the capital
				infrastructure constructed is capable of initiating operations or can be used
				for its intended purpose.
(u)
				"Water Supply System" means a system from the water source to the consumer
				premises consisting of pipes, structures and facilities through which water is
				obtained, treated, stored, distributed or otherwise offered to the public for
				household use or use by humans and which is part of a community water system or
				a noncommunity water system.
(v)
				"WDO" means the Wyoming Water Development Office which provides administrative
				and operational management of the programs administered by the Wyoming Water
				Development Commission.
(w) "USEPA"
				means the United States Environmental Protection Agency