A. The federal water programs committee is established to advise the board and consists of the following voting members who are appointed by the board:

1. One member who represents a public water system that serves five hundred or more connections.

2. One member who represents a public water system that serves less than five hundred connections.

3. One member who represents a domestic water improvement district or sanitary district in a county with a population of less than five hundred thousand persons.

4. One member who represents a domestic water improvement district or sanitary district in a county with a population of five hundred thousand or more persons.

5. One member who represents a city or town with a population of less than fifty thousand persons.

6. One member who represents a city or town with a population of fifty thousand or more persons.

7. One member who represents a county with a population of five hundred thousand or more persons.

8. The director of environmental quality or the director’s designee.

9. The director of water resources or the director’s designee.

10. The executive director of the corporation commission or the executive director’s designee.

11. The chief executive officer of the Arizona commerce authority or the chief executive officer’s designee.

B. The federal water programs committee shall review applications for financial or other assistance from the clean water revolving fund program, the safe drinking water revolving fund program and the hardship grant fund program and shall make recommendations to the board regarding those applications for assistance.