Terms Used In California Codes > Water Code > Division 7 > Chapter 17 > Article 2 - Clean Water and Water Reclamation Bond Program

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Board: means the State Water Resources Control Board. See California Water Code 14052
• Eligible project: means a project for a small community for the construction of treatment works which is all of the following:

  California Water Code 14052

• Eligible reclamation project: means a water reclamation project which is cost-effective when compared with the cost of alternative new freshwater supplies, and for which no federal assistance is currently available. See California Water Code 14052
• federal act: means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U. See California Water Code 14052
• Fund: means the 1988 Clean Water and Water Reclamation Fund created pursuant to Section 14055. See California Water Code 14052
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Local public agency: means any city, county, district, joint powers authority, or any other local public body or political subdivision of the state created by or pursuant to state law and involved with water or waste water management. See California Water Code 14052
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Pollution: means an alteration of the quality of the waters of the state by waste to a degree which unreasonably affects either of the following:

  California Water Code 13050

• Small community: means a municipality with a population of 3,500 persons or less, or a reasonably isolated and divisible segment of a larger municipality encompassing 3,500 persons or less, with a financial hardship as defined by the board. See California Water Code 14052
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Water Code 18
• State grant: means a grant given to a qualifying small community eligible for federal assistance under Title VI of the Federal Clean Water Act. See California Water Code 14052
• Waste: includes sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous, or radioactive, associated with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing, or processing operation, including waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal. See California Water Code 13050