Title 131 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS
001 “Capacity Development” means the technical, managerial, and financial capability to comply with applicable Primary Drinking Water Standards.1 Definition from Kansas Public Water Supply Loan Fund Reg.
002 "Clean Water Act" means Public Law 92-500, as amended by Public Law 98-396 and Public Law 100-4, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.
003 “Community Water System” as defined in the Nebraska Safe Drinking Water Act, section 71-5301(12) means a Public Water Supply System that (a) serves at least fifteen service connections used by year-round residents of the area served by the system or (b) regularly serves at least twenty-five year-round residents.
004 “Construction” means any one or more of the following: preliminary planning to determine the feasibility of the project, engineering, architectural, or economic investigations or studies such as value engineering, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, or other necessary actions, erection, building, acquisition, alteration, remodeling, improvement, or extension of the facilities or systems, or the inspection or supervision of any of the foregoing items.
005 "Council" means the Nebraska Environmental Quality Council.
006 “CWSRF” means the Wastewater Treatment Facilities Construction Loan Fund that will commonly be known as the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.
007 "CWSRF Act" means the Wastewater Treatment Facilities Construction Assistance Act.
008 "Department" means the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality .
009 “DHHSR&L” means the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure.
010 “Disadvantaged Community” for purposes of the DWSRF means a loan applicant or the service area of a loan applicant that meets affordablility criteria adopted by the Council in the intended use plans.
011 “DWSRF” means the Drinking Water Facilities Loan Fund and the Land Acquisition and Source Water Loan Fund that together will commonly be known as the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
012 “DWSRF Act” means the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Act
013 "Initiation of Operation" means the date on which the loan recipient places the project in operation or the project is capable of being placed in operation for the purposes for which it was planned, designed, and built.
014 "Loan Applicant or Loan Recipient" means any county, city, town, village, district, association, or other public body created by or pursuant to state law and having jurisdiction over disposal of sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes, or any entity authorized by law to construct, operate, and maintain a public water supply system.
015 “Nonpoint Source Control Systems” means projects which relate to landfill ground water monitoring and remediation, wellhead area protection, or stormwater management.
016 “Nonprofit Noncommunity Water System” means a public water supply system that is not a community water system and qualifies for a nonprofit status.
017 “Primary Drinking Water Standards” means the Regulations Governing Public Water Supply Systems applicable to the system under Title 179 NAC 2 of DHHSR&L that specifies either a maximum contaminant level or a treatment technique along with associated monitoring and reporting requirements for contaminants with adverse health effects on persons.
018 “Public Water Supply System” is defined by the Nebraska Safe Drinking Water Act, section 71-5301(9) as amended.
019 “Safe Drinking Water Act” means Public Law 92-523, as amended.
020 “Significant Noncompliance” for purposes of the DWSRF means failure to comply with any Primary Drinking Water Standard as determined by the Director of DHHSR&L.
021 "Wastewater Treatment Works" means the structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, transport, and treat domestic or industrial wastes and to dispose of the effluent and sludges.
Legal Citation: Title 131, Ch. 1, Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality
Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality
1200 "N" Street, Suite 400
P.O. Box 98922
Lincoln, Nebraska 68509
(402) 471-2186