(a)

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-221-805

  • Construction: means the erection, acquisition, alteration, reconstruction, improvement or extension of wastewater treatment works, including preliminary planning to determine the economic and engineering feasibility of wastewater treatment works, the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, procedures and other similar action necessary in the building of wastewater treatment works, and the inspection and supervision of the construction of wastewater treatment works. See Tennessee Code 68-221-803
  • Department: means the department of environment and conservation. See Tennessee Code 68-221-803
  • Grant: means the award of state funds to a municipality for the construction of wastewater treatment works or for preliminary engineering pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 68-221-803
  • Municipality: means any utility district existing on July 1, 1984, county, incorporated town or city, or metropolitan government which has authority to administer a wastewater treatment works, or any combination of two (2) or more of the foregoing acting jointly to construct a wastewater treatment works. See Tennessee Code 68-221-803
  • Preliminary engineering: means preparation of the Section 201 Facilities Plan, preparation of engineering plans, writing specifications, value engineering, and related, similar activities. See Tennessee Code 68-221-803
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Wastewater treatment works: means any facility whose purpose is to store, treat, neutralize, stabilize, recycle, reclaim or dispose of municipal wastewater, including treatment or disposal plants, interceptors, outfall, and outlet sewers, pumping stations, equipment and furnishings thereof and their appurtenances which are necessary to accomplish the foregoing purposes. See Tennessee Code 68-221-803
(1) The state is authorized to make grant allowances to municipalities for purposes of preliminary engineering for wastewater treatment works construction.
(2) The department shall administer this grant program.
(b)

(1) The department shall promulgate regulations setting forth procedures for the submission of applications by municipalities for these grants and for the approval or denial of these applications by the department and setting forth the criteria upon which these approvals and denials will be made, and further setting forth the amounts of such allowances which shall be based on construction cost and the percentage grant amounts bear to total construction cost.
(2) Such rules and regulations shall also include a method of grant payments.
(c) Grant allowances for preliminary engineering shall be made at the same time as the grant for construction as provided in § 68-221-804.
(d) Grant allowances made to municipalities pursuant to this section shall pay the same percentage of the eligible preliminary engineering costs as the grant made pursuant to § 68-221-804 pays of construction costs.
(e)

(1) Grants for preliminary engineering for wastewater treatment works construction projects which are financed by a municipality‘s own resources may be made by the department.
(2) Such grants shall be at the rate of eighty percent (80%) of allowable preliminary engineering costs.
(3) Such grants shall be paid at the time of construction of the project.
(f) Any municipality receiving a grant under this section and subsequently receiving funds for preliminary engineering from other state or federal sources shall refund such grant to the department, and municipalities previously receiving such grants shall not be eligible for preliminary engineering grant allowances under this section.
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