Iowa § 16.131A - 16.131A Definitions.

§ 16.131A. 16.131A Definitions.

As used in section 16.131, this section, and sections 16.132 through 16.135, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Clean Water Act” means the federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, Pub. L. No. 92-500, as amended by the Water Quality Act of 1987, Pub. L. No. 100-4, as published in 33 U.S.C. §1251 – 1376, as amended. 2. “Commission” means the environmental protection commission created under section 455A.6. 3. “Cost” means all costs, charges, expenses, or other indebtedness incurred by a loan recipient and determined by the department as reasonable and necessary for carrying out all works and undertakings necessary or incidental to the accomplishment of any project. 4. “Department” means the department of natural resources created in section 455A.2. 5. “Eligible entity” means a person eligible under the provisions of the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the commission rules to receive loans for projects from any of the revolving loan funds. 6. “Loan recipient” means an eligible entity that has received a loan under the program. 7. “Municipality” means a city, county, sanitary district, state agency, or other governmental body or corporation empowered to provide sewage collection and treatment services or drinking water, or any combination of two or more of the governmental bodies or corporations acting jointly, in connection with a project. 8. “Program” means the water pollution control works and drinking water facilities financing program created pursuant to section 455B.294. 9. “Project” means one of the following: a. In the context of water pollution control facilities, the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, extension, equipping, improvement, or rehabilitation of any works and facilities useful for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage and industrial waste in a sanitary manner including treatment works as defined in section 212 of the Clean Water Act, or the implementation and development of management programs established under sections 319 and 320 of the Clean Water Act, including construction and undertaking of nonpoint source water pollution control projects and related development activities authorized under those sections. b. In the context of drinking water facilities, the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, extending, remodeling, improving, repairing, or equipping of waterworks, water mains, extensions, or treatment facilities useful for providing potable water to residents served by a water system, including the acquisition of real property needed for any of the foregoing purposes, and such other purposes and programs as may be authorized under the Safe Drinking Water Act. 10. “Revolving loan funds” means the funds of the program established under sections 16.133A and 455B.295. 11. “Safe Drinking Water Act” means Tit. XIV of the federal Public Health Service Act, commonly known as the “Safe Drinking Water Act”, 42 U.S.C. §300f et seq., as amended by the Safe Drinking Water Amendments of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-182, as amended. 12. “Water system” means any community water system or nonprofit noncommunity water system, each as defined in the Safe Drinking Water Act, that is eligible under the rules of the department to receive a loan under the program for the purposes of undertaking a project. 2009 Acts, ch 30, §5; 2011 Acts, ch 34, §7; 2014 Acts, ch 1080, §74, 78 Wed Dec 10 22:11:50 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Section 16.131A (33, 0)