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1144.241
(9) (ae) A municipality that submits an application under par. (a)
2without design plans and specifications may obtain an initial determination of
3financial eligibility from the department of administration. The department of
4natural resources may not approve a municipality's application until the
5municipality submits approvable design plans and specifications.
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(9) (am) A municipality may not submit more than one application
8under par. (a) in any 12-month period except that this paragraph does not apply to
9applications for financial assistance for additional costs of an approved project.
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(9) (b) A municipality seeking financial assistance, except for a
12municipality seeking a capital cost loan, for a project under this section and s.
13144.2415 shall complete
a staged facility plan, design plans and specifications and 14an environmental analysis sequence as required by the department by rule.
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(9) (e) If the governor's recommendation, as set forth in the executive
17budget bill, for the amount under s. 144.2415 (3) (d), the amount available under s.
1820.866 (2) (tc) or the amount available under s. 144.2415 (4) (f) for a biennium is 85%
19or less of the amount of present value subsidy, general obligation bonding authority
20or revenue bonding authority, respectively, requested for that biennium in the
21biennial finance plan submitted under s. 144.2415 (3) (bm) 1., the department shall
22inform municipalities that, if the governor's recommendations are approved, clean
23water fund assistance during a fiscal year of that biennium will only be available to
24municipalities that submit financial assistance applications by the June 30
25preceding that fiscal year.
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(9m) Acceptance of application; allocation of funding. (a) Subject
3to pars. (c) and (d), the department shall approve an application after all of the
4following occur:
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1. The department determines that the project meets the eligibility
6requirements and criteria under subs. (7), (8), (8m) and (8s).
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2. The department of administration initially determines that the municipality
8will meet the requirements of s. 144.2415 (9) (b).
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(e) 1. Except as provided under par. (f) and sub. (13), if a sufficient amount of
10subsidy is available under s. 144.2415 (3) (d) for the municipality's project, based on
11the calculation under s. 144.2415 (3) (i), when the department approves the
12application under par. (a), the department of administration shall allocate that
13amount to the project.
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2. If a sufficient amount of subsidy is not available under s. 144.2415 (3) (d) for
15the municipality's project when the department approves the application under
16subd. 1., the department shall place the project on a list for allocation when
17additional subsidy becomes available.
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(f) If the amount approved under s. 144.2415 (3) (d), the amount available
19under s. 20.866 (2) (tc) or the amount available under s. 144.2415 (4) (f) for a
20biennium is 85% or less of the amount of present value subsidy, general obligation
21bonding authority or revenue bonding authority, respectively, requested for that
22biennium in the biennial finance plan submitted under s. 144.2415 (3) (bm) 1., all of
23the following apply:
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1. The department shall establish a funding list for each fiscal year of the
25biennium that ranks projects of municipalities that submit financial assistance
1applications under sub. (9) (a) no later than the June 30 preceding the fiscal year in
2the same order that they appear on the priority list under sub. (8e).
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2. The department of administration shall allocate funding to projects in the
4order in which they appear on the funding list under subd. 1.
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(fm) The department, in consultation with the department of administration,
6shall promulgate, by rule, methods to establish deadlines for actions that must be
7taken by a municipality to which subsidy has been allocated. The methods may
8provide for extending deadlines under specified circumstances. If a municipality
9fails to meet a deadline, including any extension, the department of administration
10shall release the amount of subsidy allocated to the municipality's project.
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13Section
4238. 144.241 (10) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 144.241 (8e), and
14144.241 (8e) (intro.), as renumbered, is amended to read:
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144.241
(8e) (intro.) The department shall establish a priority list
under in
16accordance with 33 USC 1381 to
1387 which ranks each project. The ranking on the
17priority list shall be based on all of the following:
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(11) (title)
Approval Type of financial assistance. (a)
The Except as
23provided in par. (b), the department
of administration shall specify the method by
24which financial assistance is to be provided for each
approved application
that it
1approves. The methods by which the department may provide financial assistance
2are the methods specified under sub. (6) (b).
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(b) For municipalities meeting the financial hardship assistance requirements
4under sub. (13), the department
of natural resources may approve financial hardship
5assistance
and shall specify the method by which it will provide financial hardship
6assistance, including but not limited to a combination of loans at or below the market
7rate and grants, deferred payment loans, state payment of the loan for a number of
8years, or longer amortization periods.
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9Section
4242. 144.241 (11) (c) of the statutes is renumbered 144.241 (9m) (d)
10and amended to read:
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144.241
(9m) (d) The department may not
approve financial assistance under
12this section and s. 144.2415 approve an application under par. (a) for a project that
13is not on the priority list under sub.
(10) (a) (8e).
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14Section
4243. 144.241 (11) (d) of the statutes is renumbered 144.241 (9m) (g)
15and amended to read:
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144.241
(9m) (g) In
approving financial assistance under this section and s.
17144.2415 allocating subsidy under this subsection, the department
of administration 18shall adhere to the amount approved by the legislature for each biennium under s.
19144.2415 (3) (d).
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(12) (c) 1. Except as modified under par. (f), the interest rate for tier
231 projects is 50% of market interest rate.
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2. Except as modified under par. (f), the interest rate for tier 2 projects is 70%
25of market interest rate.
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13. The interest rate for tier 3 projects is market interest rate.
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(12) (f) The department
and the department of administration jointly 5may request the joint committee on finance to take action under s. 13.101 (11) to
6modify the percentage of market interest rates established by rule for tier 1 and tier
72 projects.
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(13) Financial hardship assistance. (a) The department shall provide
10advance funding grants to fund a portion of the costs of preparing facility plans under
11sub. (8s) and project plans and specifications required under sub. (9) (a). The
12department shall approve an advance funding grant for a municipality if the median
13household income in the municipality is 80% or less of the median household income
14in this state. The amount of an advance funding grant for a facility plan is 50% of
15the cost of completing the facility plan, but not more than $20,000. The amount of
16an advance funding grant for project plans and specifications is 50% of the cost of
17completing plans and specifications but not more than $40,000.
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(b) A municipality with an application that is approved under sub. (9m) is
19eligible for financial hardship assistance for the project costs that are eligible under
20this section and s. 144.2415, except for costs to which sub. (8) (b), (c), (f) or (h) applies,
21if the municipality meets all of the following criteria:
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1. The median household income in the municipality is 80% or less of the
23median household income in this state.
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12. The estimated total annual charges per residential user in the municipality
2that relate to wastewater treatment would exceed 2% of the median household
3income in the municipality without assistance under this subsection.
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(c) The department shall provide assistance in the form of a grant of up to 90%
5of project costs that are eligible for financial hardship assistance under par. (b). The
6department shall provide a no-interest or low-interest loan for the remainder of
7those eligible costs so that estimated total annual charges per residential user in the
8municipality that relate to wastewater treatment do not exceed 2% of the median
9household income in the municipality, if possible. The department may not reduce
10the amount of financial hardship assistance for a municipality's project due to the
11municipality receiving assistance for the project from another source unless the
12combination of financial hardship assistance plus the assistance from the other
13source would reduce the estimated total annual charges per residential user in the
14municipality that relate to wastewater treatment to less than 2% of the median
15household income in the municipality.
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(d) The department shall establish a financial hardship assistance funding list
17for each fiscal year that ranks projects of municipalities that are eligible under par.
18(b), and that submit complete financial assistance applications under sub. (9) (a) no
19later than June 30 of the preceding fiscal year, in the same order that they appear
20on the priority list under sub. (8e).
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(e) In each fiscal year, the department shall allocate financial hardship
22assistance under this subsection in the following order:
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1. Advance planning grants under par. (a).
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2. Assistance under par. (b) for projects that were on a funding list under par.
25(d) for a prior fiscal year, that have not previously received funding and that were in
1the top 20% of projects on the priority list under sub. (8e) for the prior fiscal year,
2starting with projects on the funding list for the earliest fiscal year.
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3. Assistance under par. (b) for projects on the current fiscal year's funding list
4under par. (d) in the order that they appear on the funding list.
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(f) The department shall promulgate, by rule, a formula for estimating
6operating, maintenance and replacement costs for determining estimated
7wastewater treatment user charges under this subsection.
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(13m) (b) Grants provided under this subsection are not included for
10the purposes of determining under sub. (8) (i) the amount that a municipality may
11receive for projects under this section and s. 144.2415. Grants awarded under this
12subsection are not considered for the purposes of sub.
(11) (d) (9m) (e) or s. 144.2415
13(3) (d).
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(14) (b) 1. Establish a dedicated source of revenue
, that is acceptable
16to the department of administration under s. 144.2415 (9) (am) and (b), for the
17repayment of any financial assistance.
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(15) (a) (intro.)
Subject to pars. (b) and (c), the The department
shall 21and the department of administration may, at the request of a municipality, issue a
22notice of financial assistance commitment to
a the municipality
within 90 days after
23all of the following occur:
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(15) (a) 1. The department approves the municipality's application
2under sub. (9m) (a) and the department of administration has allocated subsidy for
3the municipality's project.
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(15) (am) The notice of financial assistance commitment shall include
7the conditions that the municipality must meet to secure the financial assistance and
8shall include the estimated
loan payment and repayment schedules
, as determined
9by the department and the department of administration, and other terms of the
10financial assistance.
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12Section
4264. 144.241 (15) (c) of the statutes is renumbered 144.241 (9m) (c)
13and amended to read:
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144.241
(9m) (c) The department may
issue a notice of financial assistance
15commitment to a municipality approve an application under par. (a) in a year only
16after the amount under s. 144.2415 (3) (d) for the biennium in which that year falls
17has been approved by the legislature under s. 144.2415 (3) (d).
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(3) (a) 4. The extent to which the clean water fund will be maintained
23in perpetuity
, and the extent to which the clean water fund will retain its purchasing
24power, meet the requirements of this section and s. 144.241 to provide financial
25assistance for water quality pollution abatement needs and nonpoint source water
1pollution management needs, and provide a stable and sustainable annual level of
2financial assistance under this section and s. 144.241 proportional to the state's
3long-term water pollution abatement and management needs and priorities.
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(3) (a) 5.
A fund balance sheet, cash flow of existing loans and
6commitments, report of loans and commitments, fund profits and losses including
7yield on prior year loans Audited financial statements of the past operations and
8activities of the program under this section and s. 144.241, the estimated fund capital
9available in each of the next 4 fiscal years, and the projected clean water fund balance
10for each of the next 20 years given existing obligations and financial conditions.
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(3) (a) 9. The impact of the biennial finance plan on the
guidelines 13guideline under par. (b).
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14Section
4274. 144.2415 (3) (b) (intro.) and 2. of the statutes are consolidated,
15renumbered 144.2415 (3) (b) and amended to read:
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144.2415
(3) (b) The department of administration and the department shall
17consider
the following as guidelines as a guideline in preparing the biennial finance
18plan
: 2. That that all state water pollution abatement general obligation debt
19service costs should not exceed 50% of all general obligation debt service costs to the
20state.
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(3) (bm) 2. No later than 30 days after the day on which the biennial
24budget is submitted to the legislature under s. 16.45,
the version of amendments to
1the biennial finance plan that
contains
update the plan to reflect material approved
2by the governor for inclusion in the budget.
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(3) (br) The joint committee on finance and each standing committee
5may submit to the building commission its recommendations and comments
6regarding each version of the biennial finance plan
and amendments to the biennial
7finance plan, and whether the version of the biennial finance plan updated to reflect
8the adopted biennial budget act should be approved or disapproved as specified
9under s. 13.48 (26). If the building commission disapproves the version of the
10biennial finance plan that is updated to reflect the adopted biennial budget act, the
11department and the department of administration shall submit a revised biennial
12finance plan to the building commission.
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144.2415
(3) (c) (intro.) No moneys from the clean water fund may be expended
16in a biennium until the legislature reviews and approves all of the following
, either
17in 1989 Wisconsin Act 366 for the 1989-91 biennium or as part of the biennial budget
18act for
any other the biennium:
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1. An amount that is specified for that biennium under par. (d) and
, for any
20biennium after the 1989-91 biennium, is based on the amount included in the
21biennial finance plan under par. (a) 6.
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(3) (d) 1. Equal to
$115,800,000 $80,000,000 during the
1993-95 241995-97 biennium.
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3. Equal to $1,000 for any biennium after the
1993-95
1995-97 biennium.
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(3) (dm) The department of administration may allocate amounts
3approved under par. (d) as the present value of subsidies for financial assistance
4under this section and s. 144.241, including financial hardship assistance and
5assistance for the additional costs of approved projects. The department of
6administration may allocate amounts from the amount approved under par. (d) for
7a biennium until December 30 of the fiscal year immediately following the biennium
8for projects for which complete applications under s. 144.241 (9) (a) are submitted
9before the end of the biennium.
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(3) (e) The department may expend, for financial assistance in a
12biennium other than financial hardship assistance under s. 144.241 (13) (e), an
13amount up to
74% 85% of the amount approved by the legislature under par. (d). The
14department may expend such amount only from the percentage of the amount
15approved under par. (d) that is not available under par. (f) for financial hardship
16assistance
or under par. (g) for additional costs.