2006 Utah Code - 73-10c-2 — Definitions.

     73-10c-2.   Definitions.
     As used in this chapter:
     (1) "Board" means the Board of Water Resources of the Department of Natural Resources.
     (2) "Council" means the Water Development Coordinating Council created pursuant to Section 63-34-3, and this chapter.
     (3) "Credit enhancement agreement" means any agreement entered into under this chapter between the Drinking Water Board or Water Quality Board, on behalf of the state, and a political subdivision, for the purpose of providing methods and assistance to political subdivisions to improve the security for and marketability of drinking water project obligations and wastewater project obligations.
     (4) "Drinking Water Board" means the Drinking Water Board created in Title 19, Chapter 4, Safe Drinking Water Act.
     (5) "Drinking water or wastewater project obligation" means, as appropriate, any bond, note, or other obligation of a political subdivision issued to finance all or part of the cost of acquiring, constructing, expanding, upgrading, or improving a drinking water project or wastewater project.
     (6) "Drinking water project" means any work or facility necessary or desirable to provide water for human consumption and other domestic uses, which has at least 15 service connections or serves an average of 25 individuals daily for at least 60 days of the year and includes collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under the control of the operator and used primarily with the system and collection pretreatment or storage facilities used primarily in connection with the system but not under its control.
     (7) "Financial assistance programs" means the various programs administered by the state whereby loans, grants, and other forms of financial assistance are made available to political subdivisions of this state to finance the costs of water and wastewater projects.
     (8) "Hardship Grant Assessment" means the charge the Water Quality Board or Drinking Water Board assesses to recipients of loans under Subsection 73-10c-5(2)(b) or 73-10c-5(3)(b) in lieu of or in addition to interest charged on these loans.
     (9) "Nonpoint source project" means any facility, system, practice, or mechanism to abate, prevent, or reduce pollution of waters of this state caused by nonpoint sources.
     (10) "Political subdivision" means any county, city, town, improvement district, water conservancy district, special service district, drainage district, metropolitan water district, irrigation district, separate legal or administrative entity created under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act, or any other entity constituting a political subdivision under the laws of this state.
     (11) "Security fund" means the Water Development Security Fund created by this chapter.
     (12) "Wastewater project" means any sewer, storm or sanitary sewage system, sewage treatment facility, lagoon, sewage collection facility and system, and related pipelines, and all similar systems, and works, and facilities necessary or desirable to collect, hold, cleanse, or purify any sewage or other polluted waters of this state.
     (13) "Waters of this state" means any stream, lake, pond, marsh, watercourse, waterway, well, spring, irrigation system, drainage system, or other body or accumulation of water whether surface, underground, natural, artificial, public, private, or other water resource of the state which

is contained within or flows in or through the state.
     (14) "Water Quality Board" means the Water Quality Board created in Title 19, Chapter 5, Water Quality Act.

Amended by Chapter 175, 2001 General Session