NR 162.003(24)(a)(a) Performing preliminary planning to determine the need for or the feasibility of building or modifying a treatment works or BMP, including preparing a facilities plan. NR 162.003(24)(b)(b) Performing engineering, architectural, geotechnical, hydrogeological, environmental, archaeological, biological, fiscal, or economic investigations or studies. NR 162.003(24)(c)(c) Identifying illicit discharges to an MS4, a BMP, or a wastewater treatment works if the identification work is directly related to the scored project. NR 162.003(24)(d)(d) Preparing surveys, designs, plans, bidding documentation, working drawings, specifications, or as-built drawings. NR 162.003(24)(e)(e) Coordinating, observing, inspecting, or supervising any of the activities under pars. (a) to (d) or under sub. (16). NR 162.003(25)(25) “Equipment replacement fund” means a separate fund established by a municipality for the purpose of making expenditures for major repair or replacement of equipment necessary for continuing operation of wastewater or runoff treatment works, or for maintenance of a BMP. NR 162.003(26)(26) “Financial assistance” includes one or more of the following actions taken by the department and DOA under ss. 281.58 and 281.59, Stats.: NR 162.003(26)(a)(a) Providing a loan, principal forgiveness, interest rate subsidies, a guarantee, or credit enhancement to a municipality. NR 162.003(26)(b)(b) Refinancing a municipality’s interim debt obtained for the scored project. NR 162.003(27)(27) “Financial assistance agreement” means a written agreement between a municipality, the department, and DOA that contains the terms and conditions of the financial assistance provided to the municipality under subch. II or III. NR 162.003(28)(28) “Financial assistance agreement amendment” means a formal, written change to an existing financial assistance agreement executed by all parties to the original agreement. NR 162.003(29)(29) “Force account work” means engineering, construction, or other project-specific activities performed by a municipality’s paid employees or use of equipment owned by the municipality in construction of the project, or both. NR 162.003 NoteNote: Under s. 160.01 (4), Stats., “groundwater” means any of the waters of the state, as defined in s. 281.01 (18), occurring in a saturated subsurface geological formation of rock or soil. NR 162.003 NoteNote: Under s. NR 216.002 (11), “illicit discharge” means any discharge to a municipal separate storm sewer system that is not composed entirely of storm water except discharges authorized by a WPDES permit or other discharge not requiring a WPDES permit such as landscape irrigation, individual residential car washing, fire fighting, diverted stream flows, uncontaminated groundwater infiltration, uncontaminated pumped groundwater, discharges from potable water sources, foundation drains, air conditioning condensation, irrigation water, lawn watering, flows from riparian habitats and wetlands, and similar discharges. NR 162.003 NoteNote: Under s. 281.58 (1) (c), Stats., “industrial user” means any of the following: NR 162.003 Note1. Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of a publicly owned treatment work which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary wastes, other than domestic wastes or discharges from sanitary conveniences, or discharges a volume that has the weight of biochemical oxygen demand or suspended solids at least as great as the weight found in 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary waste from residential users, and which is identified in the standard industrial classification manual, 1972, federal office of management and budget, as amended and supplemented as of October 1, 1978, under one of the following divisions:
NR 162.003 Notea. Division A: agriculture, forestry, and fishing.
NR 162.003 Noteb. Division B: mining.
NR 162.003 Notec. Division D: manufacturing.
NR 162.003 Noted. Division E: transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services.
NR 162.003 Notee. Division I: services.
NR 162.003 Note2. Any nongovernmental user of a publicly owned treatment work which discharges wastewater to the treatment work which contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to contaminate the sludge of any municipal system, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, to constitute a hazard to humans or animals, to create a public nuisance, or to create any hazard in or have an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works.
NR 162.003 Note3. All commercial users of an individual system constructed with grant assistance under s. 281.57. NR 162.003 NoteNote: Under s. NR 110.03 (16), “infiltration” means water other than wastewater that enters a sewerage system (including sewer service connections) from the ground through such sources as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow. NR 162.003 NoteNote: Under s. NR 151.002 (20), “infiltration system” means a device or practice such as a basin, trench, rain garden or swale designed specifically to encourage infiltration, but does not include natural infiltration in pervious surfaces such as lawns, redirecting of rooftop downspouts onto lawns or minimal infiltration from practices, such as swales or road side channels designed for conveyance and pollutant removal only. NR 162.003 NoteNote: Under s. NR 110.03 (17), “inflow” means water other than wastewater that enters a sewerage system (including sewer service connections) from sources such as roof leaders, cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, foundation drains, sump pumps, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections between storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, storm waters, surface runoff, street wash waters, or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration. NR 162.003(35)(35) “Interest rate subsidy” means the subsidy provided by the CWFP under ss. 281.58 and 281.59, Stats., to reduce the interest cost of loans provided to municipalities by the BCPL under ch. 24, Stats. NR 162.003(36)(36) “Interest rate subsidy agreement” means a written agreement between a municipality, the department, and DOA that contains the terms and conditions of financial assistance provided to the municipality under subch. IV. NR 162.003(37)(37) “Interim debt” means a financial liability that is subject to repayment and incurred by an applicant to temporarily finance a scored project until permanent financing is obtained from the CWFP, including liabilities in the form of lines of credit, short-term bank or BCPL loans, bond anticipation notes, general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, general obligation promissory notes, and certificates of indebtedness. NR 162.003(38)(38) “Interim debt costs” means the net interest, fees, and charges associated with issuing interim debt, including municipal advisor fees, attorney fees, printing costs, bond rating charges, and trustee fees. NR 162.003(39)(39) “Lateral” means a sewer service line that connects a residence, commercial establishment, institutional facility, or industrial user to a municipal sewage collection system or individual system. NR 162.003(40)(40) “Maintenance” means activities or procedures that are established, commonplace, or repetitious, and are performed or should be performed frequently or on a schedule to sustain the functional integrity and efficiency of existing facilities and to provide upkeep for prevention of early decline or failure, or are performed as needed in response to minor emergencies, such as sewer pipe repair or replacement when a pipe bursts, including all of the following types of maintenance: NR 162.003(40)(a)(a) Preventive maintenance, including scheduled service, repair, inspection, adjustment, or replacement of parts, to keep equipment or facilities in satisfactory operating condition, to avoid frequent breakdowns and premature replacements, and to achieve the expected life of constructed assets and installed building equipment, conducted with a frequency of one year or less. NR 162.003(40)(b)(b) Corrective maintenance, including unscheduled maintenance repairs to correct deficiencies during the year in which they occur. NR 162.003(40)(c)(c) Mobile equipment maintenance, including all corrective, preventive, emergency, or replacement maintenance work done on mobile equipment assets, except when performed at the time of purchase of used equipment to bring the purchased equipment to a fully functional or improved condition, or both. NR 162.003(40)(d)(d) Recurring maintenance, including preventive maintenance activities that recur on a periodic and scheduled cycle of greater than one year, but less than 10 years. NR 162.003(40)(e)(e) Component renewal, which is preventive maintenance activities that recur on a periodic and scheduled cycle of greater than 10 years, unless performed within the scope of a larger scored project. NR 162.003(40)(f)(f) Emergency maintenance, typically initiated within a very short amount of time from when a need is identified, to correct an emergency need to prevent injury, loss of property, or human health impacts, or to quickly return an asset to service, subject to all of the following: NR 162.003(40)(f)1.1. Unscheduled activities and repairs, such as repairing sanitary sewer breaks or mechanical malfunctions in aged or damaged infrastructure, are considered emergency maintenance under this paragraph. NR 162.003(40)(f)2.2. Emergency repairs or replacement needed due to damage caused by severe weather, cyber-attacks, or other unforeseen serious emergency situations over which the municipality has no control are not considered emergency maintenance under this paragraph. NR 162.003(40)(g)(g) Minor equipment replacement that substitutes or exchanges one existing asset, asset component, or item of installed equipment for another having the same specifications and the same capacity to perform the same function, except when performed within the scope of a larger capital improvement. NR 162.003(40)(h)(h) Demolition occurring outside of the construction site of a scored project or that is not necessary for construction of a scored project. NR 162.003 NoteNote: Under s. 281.59 (1) (b), Stats., “market interest rate” means the effective interest rate on a fixed-rate revenue obligation issued by the state to fund a loan made under this section or, if the DOA determines that there has been a significant change in interest rates after the fixed-rate revenue obligation has been issued or if a fixed-rate revenue obligation has not been issued by the state to fund a loan made under this section, the effective interest rate that the DOA determines would have been paid if a fixed-rate revenue obligation had been issued on the date financial assistance is allotted. NR 162.003 NoteNote: Under s. 281.58 (1) (cm), Stats., “median household income” means median household income determined by the U.S. bureau of the census as adjusted by the department to reflect changes in household income since the most recent federal census. NR 162.003(43)(43) “Minor civil division” means the primary governmental divisions of a county, including towns, as designated by the U.S. bureau of the census to collect and publish data. NR 162.003(44)(44) “Minority business enterprise” or “MBE” means a DBE that is owned or controlled on a daily basis by one or more minority group members. NR 162.003(45)(45) “Municipal separate storm sewer system” or “MS4” means a conveyance or system of conveyances, including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, constructed channels, or storm drains, that meets all of the following criteria: NR 162.003(45)(c)(c) Is not a combined sewer conveying both wastewater and storm water. NR 162.003(45)(d)(d) Is not part of a publicly owned wastewater treatment works that provides secondary or more stringent treatment. NR 162.003(46)(46) “Municipal WPDES storm water discharge permit” means any permit issued to a municipality by the department under s. 283.33 (3), Stats., for the purpose of controlling storm water discharges from an MS4. NR 162.003 NoteNote: Under s. 281.59 (1) (c), Stats., “municipality” means any city, town, village, county, county utility district, town sanitary district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, metropolitan sewerage district, joint local water authority created under s. 66.0823, Stats., or federally recognized American Indian tribe or band in this state. NR 162.003(48)(48) “New or changed WPDES permit limits” means an effluent limitation in a municipality’s most recent WPDES permit that is a completely new limit previously not included in the WPDES permit or is a change to a previous limit with which the municipality was already complying. NR 162.003 NoteNote: Under s. 281.65 (2) (b), Stats., “nonpoint source” means a land management activity that contributes to runoff, seepage, or percolation which adversely affects or threatens the quality of waters of this state and which is not a point source under s. 283.01 (12), Stats. NR 162.003(50)(50) “Operations” means labor, materials, and chemicals used regularly, and work activities performed on a recurring basis throughout the year that are intended to meet routine, daily functional needs. Work activities may include any of the following: NR 162.003(50)(a)(a) Operational maintenance activities related to continuing normal performance of the functions for which a treatment works or BMP asset or item of equipment is intended, including activities to keep building systems such as HVAC, lighting, and electrical utilities working properly. NR 162.003(50)(b)(b) Custodial maintenance activities, such as housekeeping duties, rodent and pest control, and lawn mowing, associated with general day-to-day care and cleaning necessary to maintain constructed assets. NR 162.003(50)(c)(c) Trash removal activities to dispose of hazardous and non-hazardous waste and debris and to recycle products such as paper, cans, and bottles. NR 162.003(50)(d)(d) Snow and ice removal and activities to treat surfaces to eliminate unsafe weather-related conditions. NR 162.003(50)(e)(e) Office activities related to billing, collections, customer communications, personnel, and other types of work activities that support the administration of the treatment works or BMP. NR 162.003(50)(f)(f) Routine walk-through and other surveillance activities associated with identifying operational anomalies and ensuring all treatment works or BMP components are working as intended. NR 162.003(51)(51) “Parallel cost percentage” means, for a scored project, the proportion of costs eligible for below–market rate financing, as delineated in s. NR 162.04 (1), relative to the total costs eligible for CWFP financing. NR 162.003 NoteNote: The calculation of the parallel cost percentage is described in s. NR 162.04 (1) (c). NR 162.003(52)(52) “Performance standards” means nonagricultural performance standards established by the department in ch. NR 151, under s. 281.16 (2), Stats. NR 162.003(53)(53) “Place” means a concentration of population either legally bounded as an incorporated place, such as a city or village, or identified as a census designated place by the U.S. bureau of the census. NR 162.003(54)(54) “Plans and specifications” means project drawings and specification manuals for all construction work to be included in the financial assistance for the scored project. NR 162.003(55)(55) “Population” means the most recent year’s final population estimate published by the DOA demographic services center for the city, town, or village that submitted priority evaluation and ranking information as required by the department. For a municipality other than a city, town, or village, “population” means the most recent population count or estimate done for the municipality and provided to the department by the municipality for purposes such as completing a sanitary survey or an estimate determined by multiplying the number of households served by the sanitary sewer system by the average household size in the area, as determined by the department. NR 162.003(56)(56) “Priority score” means the numerical value determined by the department that is assigned to each project in accordance with s. NR 162.50. NR 162.003(57)(57) “Professional services” means non-construction work provided under contract for the project, including engineering, archaeological, legal, financial, or technical services provided by a higher education institution or a formally certified member of a professional body, such as a trade association or organized profession. NR 162.003(58)(58) “Project” means a set of activities intended to result, or that has resulted, in completed construction of wastewater related or storm water related facilities or practices. NR 162.003(60)(60) “Project completion date” means the earliest date on which all of the following apply: NR 162.003(60)(b)(b) The department or its agents have certified that the scored project was constructed according to department-approved plans and specifications. NR 162.003(60)(c)(c) The department or its agents have certified that the facilities are operating according to design.
