Terms Used In Michigan Laws 324.5402

  • Assistance: means 1 or more of the following activities to the extent authorized by the federal safe drinking water act:
  (i) Provision of loans for the planning, design, and construction or alteration of waterworks systems. See Michigan Laws 324.5401
  • Authority: means the Michigan municipal bond authority created in the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 324.5401
  • Community water supply: means a public water supply that provides year-round service to not less than 15 living units or that regularly provides year-round service to not less than 25 residents. See Michigan Laws 324.5401
  • Department: means the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy or its authorized agent or representative. See Michigan Laws 324.5402
  • Director: means the director of the department or his or her designated representative. See Michigan Laws 324.5402
  • Fund: means the state drinking water revolving fund established under section 16b of the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 324.5402
  • Priority list: means the annual ranked listing of projects developed by the department in section 5406. See Michigan Laws 324.5403
  • Public water supply: means a waterworks system that provides water for drinking or household purposes to persons other than the water supplier, except for those waterworks systems that supply water to only 1 house, apartment, or other domicile occupied or intended to be occupied on a day-to-day basis by an individual, family group, or equivalent. See Michigan Laws 324.5403
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  •   As used in this part:
      (a) “Department” means the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy or its authorized agent or representative.
      (b) “Director” means the director of the department or his or her designated representative.
      (c) “Federal safe drinking water act” means the safe drinking water act, 42 USC 300f to 300j-25, and the rules promulgated under that act.
      (d) “Fund” means the state drinking water revolving fund established under section 16b of the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141.1066b.
      (e) “Fundable range” means those projects, taken in descending order on the priority list, for which the department estimates sufficient funds exist to provide assistance during each annual funding cycle.
      (f) “Municipality” means a city, village, county, township, authority, public school district, or other public body with taxing authority, including an intermunicipal agency of 2 or more municipalities, authorized or created under state law.
      (g) “Noncommunity water supply” means a public water supply that is not a community water supply, but that has not less than 15 service connections or that serves not less than 25 individuals on an average daily basis for not less than 60 days per year.