(a) The director may provide financial assistance for publicly owned wastewater treatment works for the construction of necessary wastewater infrastructure projects, through the revolving fund, using moneys from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and other applicable federal acts.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-82.5

  • Act: means the Clean Water Act (formally referred to as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972), P. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
  • Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
  • Pollution: means water pollution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Revolving fund: means the water pollution control revolving fund established by section 342D-83. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-80
  • Treatment works: means any plant or other facility used for the purpose of controlling water pollution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
  • wastewater: means any liquid "waste" as used above, whether treated or not. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
  • Water pollution: means :

    (1) Such contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any state waters, including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of the waters, or
    (2) Such discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substances into any state waters,

    as will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters unreasonably harmful, detrimental, or injurious to public health, safety, or welfare, including harm, detriment, or injury to public water supplies, fish and aquatic life and wildlife, recreational purposes and agricultural and industrial research and scientific uses of such waters or as will or is likely to violate any water quality standards, effluent standards, treatment and pretreatment standards, or standards of performance for new sources adopted by the department. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1

(b) The director may establish a separate account within the revolving fund and assign to that account federal moneys appropriated under federal laws that authorize principal forgiveness, zero and negative interest loans, and grants, including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and other applicable federal acts. The director may use those moneys and in so doing may include additional requirements and subsidization not applicable to the remainder of the revolving fund, including forgiveness of principal, zero and negative interest loans, and grants to publicly-owned wastewater treatment works that meet eligibility requirements for the revolving fund.
(c) The director shall certify that a project receiving financial assistance is entitled to priority over other eligible projects on the basis of water pollution and financial needs, as well as a preference to those projects that can be started and completed expeditiously as stipulated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and other applicable federal acts.
(d) Among eligible projects, the director may also give priority to projects that incorporate renewable energy, energy efficiency, and conservation measures in wastewater infrastructure, to the extent allowed by federal law.
(e) Each project receiving financial assistance shall be in conformance with the conditions for water pollution control financing under section 342D-87(a)(1), (2), (4), and (5), and (b).

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