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(41) (41) “Market interest rate” has the meaning given in s. 281.59 (1) (b), Stats.

NR 162.003 Note Note: 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(42) (42) “Median household income” has the meaning given in s. 281.58 (1) (cm), Stats.

NR 162.003 Note Note: 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)(a) (a) Is owned or operated by a municipality.

NR 162.003(45)(b) (b) Is designed or used for collecting or conveying storm water.

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(47) (47) “Municipality” has the meaning given in s. 281.59 (1) (c), Stats.

NR 162.003 Note Note: 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(49) (49) “Nonpoint source” has the meaning given in s. 281.65 (2) (b), Stats.

NR 162.003 Note Note: 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.