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1281.59 (11) (a) The department of natural resources and the department of
2administration may enter into a financial assistance agreement with an applicant
3for which the department of administration has allocated subsidy financial
4assistance
under s. 281.58 (9m), 281.60 (8) or 281.61 (8) if the applicant meets the
5conditions under sub. (9) and the other requirements under this section and s.
6281.58, 281.60 or 281.61.
SB21,4155 7Section 4155. 281.60 (7) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21,4156 8Section 4156. 281.60 (8) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 281.60 (8).
SB21,4157 9Section 4157. 281.60 (8) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21,4158 10Section 4158. 281.60 (8s) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1571,1411 281.60 (8s) Limitation on financial assistance. The amount of a payment
12under sub. (2r) (d) may not exceed the amount of subsidy necessary to reduce the
13interest rate on the loan from market rate to the interest rate that would have been
14charged on a loan to the political subdivision under sub. (2r) (a).
SB21,4159 15Section 4159. 281.60 (12) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1571,2216 281.60 (12) (b) 3. If the sale proceeds are greater than the cost of the land plus
17the cost of the cleanup, pay to the department of administration an amount equal to
18the remaining loan balance plus the lesser of 75% of the amount by which the sale
19proceeds exceed the cost of the land plus the cost of the cleanup or the amount of
20subsidy incurred for the project
difference between the amount of interest paid on
21the loan and the amount of interest that would have been paid if the loan had been
22made at the market rate,
and retain the remainder of the sale proceeds.
SB21,4160 23Section 4160. 281.61 (1) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 281.61 (1) (am).
SB21,4161 24Section 4161. 281.61 (1) (ag) of the statutes is created to read:
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1281.61 (1) (ag) "Community water system" means a public water system that
2serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or that regularly
3serves at least 25 year-round residents.
SB21,4162 4Section 4162. 281.61 (1) (bm) of the statutes is created to read:
SB21,1572,65 281.61 (1) (bm) "Noncommunity water system" means a public water system
6that is not a community water system.
SB21,4163 7Section 4163. 281.61 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1572,158 281.61 (2) General. The department and the department of administration
9shall administer a program to provide financial assistance to local governmental
10units and to the private owners of community water systems and nonprofit
11noncommunity water systems
for projects for the planning, designing, construction
12or modification of public water systems, if the projects will facilitate compliance with
13national primary drinking water regulations under 42 USC 300g-1 or otherwise
14significantly further the health protection objectives of the Safe Drinking Water Act,
1542 USC 300f to 300j-26.
SB21,4164 16Section 4164. 281.61 (2g) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1573,217 281.61 (2g) Ineligible projects. A local governmental unit or the private
18owner of a community water system or nonprofit noncommunity water system
is not
19eligible for financial assistance under this section if the local governmental unit or
20the private owner of the community water system or nonprofit noncommunity water
21system
does not have the technical, managerial or financial capacity to ensure
22compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 USC 300f to 300j-26, or the public
23water system operated by the local governmental unit or private owner of the
24community water system or nonprofit noncommunity water system
is in significant
25noncompliance with any requirement of a primary drinking water regulation or

1variance under 42 USC 300g-1 unless the financial assistance will ensure
2compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act.
SB21,4165 3Section 4165. 281.61 (2r) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1573,74 281.61 (2r) (b) Purchasing or refinancing the obligation of a local governmental
5unit or private owner of a community water system or nonprofit noncommunity
6water system
if the obligation was incurred to finance the cost of a project described
7in sub. (2) and the obligation was initially incurred after July 1, 1993.
SB21,4166 8Section 4166. 281.61 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1573,149 281.61 (3) Notice of intent to apply. (a) A local governmental unit or private
10owner of a community water system or nonprofit noncommunity water system
shall
11submit notice of its intent to apply for financial assistance under the safe drinking
12water loan program at least 6 months before the beginning of the fiscal year in which
13it intends to receive the financial assistance. The notice shall be in a form prescribed
14by the department and the department of administration.
SB21,1573,1715 (c) The department may waive par. (a) upon the written request of a local
16governmental unit or private owner of a community water system or nonprofit
17noncommunity water system
.
SB21,4167 18Section 4167. 281.61 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1573,2219 281.61 (4) Engineering report. A local governmental unit or private owner of
20a community water system or nonprofit noncommunity water system
seeking
21financial assistance for a project under this section shall submit an engineering
22report, as required by the department by rule.
SB21,4168 23Section 4168. 281.61 (5) of the statutes is renumbered 281.61 (5) (a) and
24amended to read:
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1281.61 (5) (a) After the department approves a local governmental unit's an
2engineering report submitted under sub. (4), the local governmental unit or private
3owner of a community water system or nonprofit noncommunity water system
shall
4submit an application for safe drinking water financial assistance to the department.
5The applicant shall submit the application on or before the June 30 preceding the
6beginning of the fiscal year in which the applicant wishes to receive the financial
7assistance, except that if funds are available in a fiscal year after funding has been
8allocated under sub. (8) for all approved applications submitted before the June 30
9preceding that fiscal year, the department of administration may allocate funding for
10approved applications submitted after June 30. The application shall be in the form
11and include the information required by the department and the department of
12administration and shall include plans and specifications that are approvable by the
13department under this section. An applicant may not submit more than one
14application per project per year.
SB21,4169 15Section 4169. 281.61 (5) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
SB21,1574,2216 281.61 (5) (b) The department of administration and the department jointly
17may charge and collect service fees, established by rule, which shall cover the
18estimated costs of reviewing and acting upon the application and servicing the
19financial assistance agreement. No service fee established by rule under this
20paragraph may be charged to or collected from an applicant for financial assistance
21under s. 281.59 (13). The fees collected under this paragraph shall be credited to the
22environmental improvement fund.
SB21,4170 23Section 4170. 281.61 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1575,924 281.61 (6) Priority list. The department shall establish a priority list that
25ranks each safe drinking water loan program project. The department shall

1promulgate rules for determining project rankings that, to the extent possible, give
2priority to projects that address the most serious risks to human health, that are
3necessary to ensure compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 USC 300f to
4300j-26, and that assist local governmental units applicants that are most in need
5on a per household basis, according to affordability criteria specified in the rules. For
6the purpose of ranking projects under this subsection, the department shall treat a
7project to upgrade a public water system to provide continuous disinfection of the
8water that it distributes as if the public water system were a surface water system
9that federal law requires to provide continuous disinfection.
SB21,4171 10Section 4171. 281.61 (7) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1575,1211 281.61 (7) (c) The department of administration determines that the local
12governmental unit
applicant will meet the requirements of s. 281.59 (9) (b).
SB21,4172 13Section 4172. 281.61 (7) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21,4173 14Section 4173. 281.61 (8) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is renumbered 281.61 (8)
15(intro.) and amended to read:
SB21,1575,2216 281.61 (8) (intro.) The department shall establish a funding list for each fiscal
17year that ranks projects of local governmental units applicants that submit
18approvable applications under sub. (5) in the same order that they appear on the
19priority list under sub. (6). If sufficient funds are not available to fund all approved
20applications for financial assistance, the department of administration shall allocate
21funding to projects that are approved under sub. (7) in the order that they appear on
22the funding list, except as follows:
SB21,4174 23Section 4174. 281.61 (8) (a) 1. of the statutes is renumbered 281.61 (8) (a).
SB21,4175 24Section 4175. 281.61 (8) (a) 2. of the statutes is renumbered 281.61 (8) (bL)
25and amended to read:
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1281.61 (8) (bL) In any biennium, no local governmental unit applicant may
2receive more than 25% of the funds that the department of administration projects
3will be available
amount of financial assistance planned to be provided or committed
4for projects under this section
for that biennium.
SB21,4176 5Section 4176. 281.61 (8) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21,4177 6Section 4177. 281.61 (8m) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1576,97 281.61 (8m) Conditions of financial assistance for local governmental
8units
. As a condition of receiving financial assistance under the safe drinking water
9loan program, a local governmental unit shall do all of the following:
SB21,4178 10Section 4178. 281.61 (8p) of the statutes is created to read:
SB21,1576,1411 281.61 (8p) Conditions of financial assistance for private owners. As a
12condition of receiving financial assistance under the safe drinking water loan
13program, a private owner of a community water system or nonprofit noncommunity
14water system shall do all of the following:
SB21,1576,1615 (a) Demonstrate that there is adequate security for the repayment of the
16financial assistance.
SB21,1576,1917(b) Comply with those provisions of 42 USC 300f to 300j-26 and this chapter
18and the regulations and rules promulgated under those provisions that the
19department specifies.
SB21,4179 20Section 4179. 281.61 (8s) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1576,2421 281.61 (8s) Limitation on financial assistance. The amount of a payment
22under sub. (2r) (d) may not exceed the amount of subsidy necessary to reduce the
23interest rate on the loan from market rate to the interest rate that would have been
24charged on a loan to the local governmental unit under sub. (2r) (a).
SB21,4180 25Section 4180. 281.61 (11) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
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1281.61 (11) (a) 1. For a local governmental unit an applicant that does not meet
2financial eligibility criteria established by the department by rule, 55% of market
3interest rate.
SB21,4181 4Section 4181. 281.61 (11) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1577,75 281.61 (11) (a) 2. For a local governmental unit an applicant that meets
6financial eligibility criteria established by the department by rule, 33% of market
7interest rate.
SB21,4182 8Section 4182. 281.61 (12) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1577,139 281.61 (12) (g) Have the lead state role with local governmental units and
10private owners of community water systems or nonprofit noncommunity water
11systems
in providing safe drinking water loan program information, and cooperate
12with the department of administration in providing that information to local
13governmental units
.
SB21,4183 14Section 4183. 281.625 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1577,1715 281.625 (1) (b) "Local governmental unit" has the meaning given in s. 281.61
16(1) (a) (am), except that the term does not include a joint local water authority created
17under s. 66.0823.
SB21,4184 18Section 4184. 281.625 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1577,2219 281.625 (2) The department, in consultation with the department of
20administration, shall promulgate rules for determining whether a loan is an eligible
21loan under s. 234.86 235.86 (3) for a loan guarantee under s. 234.86 235.86. The rules
22shall be consistent with 42 USC 300j-12.
SB21,4185 23Section 4185. 281.625 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1578,224 281.625 (3) The department shall determine whether a loan to the owner of a
25community water system or the nonprofit owner of a noncommunity water system

1is an eligible loan under s. 234.86 235.86 (3) for the purposes of the loan guarantee
2program under s. 234.86 235.86.
SB21,4186 3Section 4186. 281.625 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1578,74 281.625 (4) With the approval of the department of administration, the
5department of natural resources may transfer funds from the appropriation
6accounts under s. 20.320 (2) (s) and (x) to the Wisconsin drinking water reserve fund
7under s. 234.933 235.933 to guarantee loans under s. 234.86 235.86.
SB21,4187 8Section 4187. 281.625 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1578,119 281.625 (5) The department may contract with the Forward Wisconsin
10Housing and Economic Development Authority for the administration of the
11program under this section and s. 234.86 235.86.
SB21,4188 12Section 4188. 281.65 (3) (at) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1578,1513 281.65 (3) (at) Review rules drafted under this section and make
14recommendations regarding the rules before final approval of the rules by the
15natural resources board secretary.
SB21,4189 16Section 4189. 281.66 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1578,2517 281.66 (6) Grants for campuses. Notwithstanding subs. (3) and (4), the
18department may distribute a grant to the board of regents of the University of
19Wisconsin System Authority for practices, techniques or measures to control storm
20water discharges on a University of Wisconsin System campus that is located in a
21municipality that is required to obtain a permit under s. 283.33 and that is located
22in a priority watershed, as defined in s. 281.65 (2) (c), a priority lake area, as defined
23in s. 281.65 (2) (bs), or an area that is identified as an area of concern by the
24International Joint Commission, as defined in s. 281.35 (1) (h), under the Great
25Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
SB21,4190
1Section 4190. 281.68 (3) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1579,72 281.68 (3) (a) 1. Eligible recipients to consist of nonprofit conservation
3organizations, as defined in s. 23.0955 (1) 23.09 (20m) (a) 3., counties, cities, towns,
4villages, qualified lake associations, town sanitary districts, qualified school
5districts, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts, and other local
6governmental units, as defined in s. 66.0131 (1) (a), that are established for the
7purpose of lake management.
SB21,4191 8Section 4191. 281.69 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1579,10 9281.69 (title) Lake management and classification grants and
10contracts
.
SB21,4192 11Section 4192. 281.69 (1b) (bn) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1579,1312 281.69 (1b) (bn) "Nonprofit conservation organization" has the meaning given
13in s. 23.0955 (1) 23.09 (20m) (a) 3.
SB21,4193 14Section 4193. 281.69 (1r) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21,4194 15Section 4194. 281.69 (2) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1579,1616 281.69 (2) (title) Amounts of grants and contracts.
SB21,4195 17Section 4195. 281.69 (2) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21,4196 18Section 4196. 281.69 (6) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21,4197 19Section 4197. 281.70 (4) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1579,2120 281.70 (4) (a) 3. Nonprofit conservation organizations, as defined in s. 23.0955
21(1)
23.09 (20m) (a) 3.
SB21,4198 22Section 4198. 281.72 of the statutes is repealed.
SB21,4199 23Section 4199. 281.75 (4) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1579,2524 281.75 (4) (b) 3. An authority created under subch. II of ch. 114 or ch. 36, 231,
25233, 234, 235, or 237, or 238.
SB21,4200
1Section 4200. Subchapter VII (title) of chapter 281 [precedes 281.81] of the
2statutes is amended to read:
SB21,1580,33 CHAPTER 281
SB21,1580,44 SUBCHAPTER VII
SB21,1580,5 5GREAT LAKES REMEDIAL ACTION
SB21,4201 6Section 4201. 281.87 of the statutes is amended to read:
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