N.Y. Public Health Law § 1160: Definitions

§ 1160. Definitions. As used in this section:

1. "Allocation" means the amount of moneys allocated to reduce a

recipient's or group of recipients' total financing costs for one or

more eligible projects.

2. "Construction" means the erection, building, acquisition,

alteration, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement or extension of an

eligible project; the inspection and supervision thereof; and the

engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, and economic investigations

and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications,

procedures, and other actions necessary thereto.

3. "Corporation" means the New York state environmental facilities

corporation, continued pursuant to section twelve hundred eighty-two of

the public authorities law, or any successor thereto.

4. "Eligible project" means a project for construction of a water

supply facility which is intended to improve drinking water facilities,

including a project that would be eligible for financing under or

designed to comply with the requirements of the federal safe drinking

water act or other applicable federal law and state drinking water

quality goals and standards, which the commissioner has determined:

(a) is necessary for the objectives and goals of the state sanitary

code or the federal safe drinking water act to assure safe public

drinking water;

(b) represents a reasonable effort to develop a viable water supply

that can consistently meet drinking water standards;

(c) takes into consideration the water resources management strategy

pursuant to title twenty-nine of article fifteen of the environmental

conservation law;

(d) is a project for which financial assistance is available from the

fund; and

(e) conforms with applicable state rules and regulations.

5. "Financial assistance to a recipient" has the same meaning as set

forth in subdivision four of section twelve hundred eighty-five-m of the

public authorities law.

6. "Financing agreement" means an agreement between the corporation

and one or more recipients meeting the requirements of section eleven

hundred sixty-three of this title.

7. "Fund" means the drinking water revolving fund established under

section twelve hundred eighty-five-m of the public authorities law.

8. "Intended use plan" means a plan identifying the intended uses of

the amounts available in the fund, including but not limited to:

(a) a list of those projects for construction of water supply

facilities on the priority list developed pursuant to section eleven

hundred sixty-one of this title;

(b) a description of the short and long term goals and objectives of

the fund;

(c) information on the activities to be supported, including a

description of project categories, terms of financial assistance and

communities served; and

(d) the criteria and method established for the distribution of

financial assistance from the fund.

9. "Municipality" means any county, city, town, village, district

corporation, county or town improvement district, school district,

Indian nation or tribe recognized by the state or the United States with

a reservation wholly or partly within the boundaries of New York state,

any public benefit corporation or public authority established pursuant

to the laws of New York or any agency of New York state which is

empowered to construct and operate an eligible project, or any two or

more of the foregoing which are acting jointly in connection with an

eligible project.

10. "Recipient" means any municipality, public utility, or person,

including any individual, firm, partnership, association, not-for-profit

corporation or other corporation organized and existing under the laws

of the state or any other state which is empowered to construct and

operate an eligible project, or any two or more of the foregoing which

are acting jointly in connection with an eligible project.