Section 13476 Of Chapter 6.5. State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund From California Water Code >> Division 7. >> Chapter 6.5.
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. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following
definitions govern the construction of this chapter:
(a) "Administration fund" means the State Water Pollution Control
Revolving Fund Administration Fund.
(b) "Board" means the State Water Resources Control Board.
(c) "Federal Clean Water Act" or "federal act" means the Clean
Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq.) and acts amendatory thereof
or supplemental thereto.
(d) (1) "Financial assistance" means assistance authorized under
Section 13480. Financial assistance includes loans, refinancing,
installment sales agreements, purchase of debt, and loan guarantees
for municipal revolving funds, but excludes grants.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), financial assistance may
include grants or other assistance directed by a federal grant
deposited in the fund to the extent authorized and funded by that
grant.
(e) "Fund" means the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund.
(f) "Grant fund" means the State Water Pollution Control Revolving
Fund Small Community Grant Fund.
(g) "Matching funds" means money that equals that percentage of
federal contributions required by the federal act to be matched with
state funds.
(h) "Municipality" has the same meaning and construction as in the
federal act and also includes all state, interstate, and
intermunicipal agencies.
(i) "Publicly owned" means owned by a municipality.
(j) "Severely disadvantaged community" means a community with a
median household income of less than 60 percent of the statewide
median household income.