Article 1. State Water Quality Control Fund of California Water Code >> Division 7. >> Chapter 6. >> Article 1.
As used in this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the
context:
(a) "Facilities" means any of the following:
(1) Facilities for the collection, treatment, or export of waste
when necessary to prevent water pollution.
(2) Facilities to recycle wastewater and to convey recycled water.
(3) Facilities or devices to conserve water.
(4) Any combination of the facilities described in paragraph (1),
(2), or (3).
(b) "Fund" means the State Water Quality Control Fund.
(c) "Not-for-profit organization" means an organization operated
on a not-for-profit basis, including, but not limited to, an
association, cooperative, or private corporation that is a public
water system, as defined in Section 116275 of the Health and Safety
Code, that meets technical, managerial, and financial capacity
criteria specified by the state board for public water systems, or
that is subject to regulatory authority pursuant to this division."
Not-for-profit organization" includes only an organization that is
either controlled by a local public body or bodies or has a broadly
based ownership by, or membership of, people of the local community.
(d) "Public agency" means any city, county, city and county,
district, or other political subdivision of the state.
(a) The State Water Quality Control Fund is continued in
existence. The following moneys in the fund are appropriated, without
regard to fiscal years, for expenditure by the state board in making
loans to public agencies in accordance with this chapter:
(1) The balance of the original moneys deposited in the fund.
(2) Any money repaid to the fund.
(3) Any remaining balance of the money in the fund deposited
therein after the specific appropriations for loans to the South
Tahoe Public Utility District, the North Tahoe Public Utility
District, the Tahoe City Public Utility District, the Truckee
Sanitary District, and to any other governmental entity in the areas
served by such districts have been made.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), upon the order of the state
board, the money in the State Water Quality Control Fund shall be
transferred to the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund.