NR 166.03(14)(b)(b) Preparing a construction site or sites of a scored project for work activities, including grading, staking, digging, and demolition or abandonment of existing structures. NR 166.03(14)(c)(c) Purchasing an entire existing water system or buying capacity in an existing water system owned by another entity. NR 166.03(14)(d)(d) Altering, modifying, improving, upgrading, rehabilitating, or adding to existing water system facilities. NR 166.03(14)(e)(e) Performing major repairs or replacing major components of existing facilities. NR 166.03(14)(f)(f) Installing new piping or mechanical, electrical, or electronic equipment or facilities. NR 166.03(16)(16) “Custom tabulation” means a special tabulation of income data from the ACS microdata files that is performed by the U.S. bureau of the census, is not part of the standard ACS data tabulations, and results in generation of a median household income for an area designated by the applicant as the boundaries of a town sanitary district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, or municipal water district, or of the area served by the water system if the water system serves only a portion of the place or minor civil division in which it is located. NR 166.03(17)(17) “Department” means the department of natural resources. NR 166.03(18)(18) “Disadvantaged business enterprise” or “DBE” means a business entity certified as disadvantaged under the U.S. department of transportation unified certification program or other program approved by the U.S. environmental protection agency to certify disadvantaged businesses. NR 166.03(19)(19) “Distribution system” means all pipes or conduits by which water is delivered to consumers except piping and fixtures inside buildings served and private service lines. NR 166.03(21)(a)(a) Performing preliminary planning to determine the need for or the feasibility of building or modifying a water system. NR 166.03(21)(b)(b) Performing engineering, architectural, geotechnical, hydrogeological, environmental, archaeological, biological, fiscal, or economic investigations or studies. NR 166.03(21)(c)(c) Preparing surveys, designs, plans, bidding documentation, working drawings, specifications, or as-built drawings. NR 166.03(21)(d)(d) Coordinating, observing, inspecting, or supervising any of the activities under pars. (a) to (c) or under sub. (14). NR 166.03(22)(22) “Financial assistance” includes one or more of the following actions taken by the department and DOA under ss. 281.59 and 281.61, Stats.: NR 166.03(22)(a)(a) Providing a loan, principal forgiveness, a guarantee, or credit enhancement to a municipality. NR 166.03(22)(b)(b) Refinancing a municipality’s interim debt obtained for the project. NR 166.03(23)(23) “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 under this chapter to the municipality. NR 166.03(24)(24) “Financial assistance agreement amendment” means a formal, written change to an existing financial assistance agreement executed by all parties to the original agreement. NR 166.03(25)(25) “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 166.03(26)(26) “Future growth” means distribution system expansion beyond the existing system and excess capacity built into facilities that exceeds standard engineering practices. NR 166.03(27)(27) “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 SDWLP, including liabilities in the form of lines of credit, short-term loans from the board of commissioners of public lands, bank loans, bond anticipation notes, general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, general obligation promissory notes, and certificates of indebtedness. NR 166.03(28)(28) “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 166.03(29)(29) “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 watermain repair when a pipe bursts, including all of the following types of maintenance: NR 166.03(29)(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 166.03(29)(b)(b) Corrective maintenance, including unscheduled maintenance repairs to correct deficiencies during the year in which they occur.