Section 250-RICR-170-05-2.4 - DefinitionsA. 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.250 R.I. Code R. 250-RICR-170-05-2.4
Adopted effective 12/4/2019