b. Restoring streets and rights−of−way, and repairing damage to items such as pavement, sidewalks, watermains, and storm sewers necessary as a result of construction of the scored project.
c. Punch list item activities.
d. Acquiring, consuming, or expending materials.
e. Obtaining products that comply with federal requirements to use American iron and steel in CWFP projects.
f. Other capital costs incurred solely for purposes of the scored project.
8. ‘Demolition.’ Demolishing existing structures if the demolition is part of a scored project and at least one of the following applies:
a. The existing structure is part of the treatment works.
b. The existing structure is part of a BMP project.
c. The demolition is needed for site preparation.
d. The demolition is included in abandonment procedures as approved in the plans and specifications of the scored project or when otherwise approved by department staff.
9. ‘Discharge monitoring.’ The cost of equipment owned or to be owned by the municipality for monitoring, sampling, and analyzing industrial discharges to a municipal wastewater treatment works, or illicit discharges to a runoff treatment works or BMP.
10. ‘Easements and rights-of-way.’ Acquisition of easements and rights–of–way, including purchase cost, and administrative and legal expenses.
11. ‘Equipment and tools.’ Equipment and tools, the costs of which the department may prorate if the municipality intends to use these items for multiple purposes rather than solely for the treatment works or BMP. Eligible equipment and tools include any of the following:
a. Mobile equipment, such as portable stand−by generators, portable emergency pumps, and grounds and maintenance equipment for mowing and snow removal, for the treatment works or BMP.
b. Spare parts, if included in the plans and specifications or otherwise approved by the department.
c. Tools necessary for operations and maintenance of the treatment works or BMP, including specialized tools for specific purposes, site and building maintenance tools such as wheelbarrows, lawn sprinklers, weed trimmers, hoses, shovels, and rakes, and other basic tools such as trash cans, brooms, flashlights, and multiple−use hand tools.
d. Machinery for manufacturing or repairing necessary tools or equipment for the treatment works or BMP.
e. Computers and related equipment, including purchasing, installing, programming, or upgrading computers, printers, control systems, and other computer-related equipment necessary for operating and maintaining the treatment works or BMP. This includes equipment and systems for accounting, billing, public notification, testing, monitoring, reporting, emergency alerts, communications, and supervisory control and data acquisition.
12. ‘Fees.’ Fees paid by the municipality for any of the following:
a. Permits obtained for construction, including building, electrical, and plumbing permits, construction site storm water permits, and railroad crossing permits.
b. Legal fees of an attorney that is not an on−staff municipal attorney, including costs of legal reviews of architectural, engineering or construction contracts, user charge systems and sewer use ordinances, management plans, intermunicipal agreements, and legal work necessary for securing eligible permits.
c. Service fees paid to a state or federal agency, except administrative fees paid annually along with principal and interest payments on a CWFP loan.
13. ‘Groundwater monitoring.’ Installing groundwater monitoring equipment or facilities.
14. ‘Insurance.’ Purchasing insurance necessary during construction of the scored project, including property, liability, builders risk, and construction insurance.
15. ‘Interim financing.’ Costs associated with interim financing for the scored project as delineated in sub. (3).
16. ‘Laboratories.’ Laboratory equipment, chemicals, and supplies related to initial setup, upgrade, or expansion of the laboratory.
17. ‘Land Acquisition.’ Acquiring land, including purchase cost and administrative and legal expenses if at least one of the following applies:
a. The land will be used for storage of treated wastewater in land treatment systems before land application.
b. The land will be used for composting or temporary storage of compost residues that result from wastewater treatment if the department has approved a program for use of the compost.
c. The land is property on which the BMP, treatment works, biosolids facility or lift stations will be located, including urban corridors needed to support integrated systems of a treatment works or BMP for urban runoff.
d. The land will serve to isolate a treatment facility as required under s. NR 110.15 (3) (d). e. The land will be used for sludge spreading.
f. The land is the property on which individual systems are or will be located if the systems are publicly−owned and maintained.
Note: If the CWFP has only federal funds available for providing financial assistance for a project, the department may only fund land acquisition for land that is “integral to the treatment process,” as defined by the U.S. environmental protection agency.
20. ‘Lines to public sewer mains.’ Pumping units and pressurized lines from the pumping units to the public sanitary sewer main, or holding and septic tanks and their sewer lines to the public sanitary sewer main, that are included in a sewage collection system, are cost–effective, and are owned and maintained by the applicant municipality.
21. ‘Management plans.’ Developing a detailed management plan for a scored project or, if eligible as an activity with de minimis cost, for a larger portion of a treatment works or BMP.
22. ‘Municipal staff, equipment, and materials.’ Municipal expenses incurred solely for the scored project and documented by the municipality as force account, including any of the following:
a. Salary and benefits of municipal employees, except elected officials or on-staff attorneys, for time spent working directly on the scored project.
b. Expendable material costs incurred by the municipality.
c. Estimated costs incurred using equipment owned by the municipality.
23. ‘Municipally owned facilities on private property.’ Grinder pumps, sewer laterals, service connections, service branches, risers and riser pipes, when municipally owned and municipally maintained.
24. ‘Pretreatment or toxicity reduction.’ Developing a municipal pretreatment or toxicity reduction program and constructing facilities to be used by the municipal treatment works or BMP in the program, including monitoring equipment.
25. ‘Professional services.’ Engineering, architectural, legal, and other professional services and fees, including any of the following:
a. Conducting value engineering studies or analyses during the design phase.
b. Conducting system evaluations and studies.
c. Developing facilities plans and engineering reports.
d. Preparing and submitting plans and specifications.
e. Preparing, printing, and distributing bidding documents.
f. Gathering documents and information for, and completing, the CWFP financial assistance application or interest rate subsidy application, and other forms required for financial assistance.
g. Developing or revising an operations and maintenance manual.
h. Preparing a plan of operation for the project.
i. Advertising for and conducting bid lettings.
j. Analyzing bids, preparing award recommendations, and preparing contracts.
k. Providing construction management, observation, and inspection.
L. Preparing for and facilitating public education and participation opportunities.
m. Travel, indirect costs, and labor included in contracts for services related to the scored project.
n. Preparing a user charge system, a sewer use ordinance, or an ordinance related to storm water management.
o. Preparing environmental assessment reports and evaluations.
p. Conducting archaeological surveys and gathering historical site information.
q. Providing financial advisor or bond counsel services related to loan closing or the issuance of bonds.
r. Preparing a water conservation plan.
s. Producing record drawings.
t. Updating or upgrading treatment works maps of the areas impacted by the scored project.
u. Monitoring use of American iron and steel.
v. Providing administration of activities related to Davis-Bacon and related acts or other wage requirements.
w. Conducting research or energy audits for incorporation of energy and water efficiency and conservation into the planning and design of a project.
26. ‘Project site.’ Construction-related work activities at the project site of a scored project, including the following:
a. Landscaping areas impacted by construction of the scored project.
b. Reconnecting laterals due to the rehabilitation of a publicly−owned treatment works.
c. Relocating watermains if necessary for construction, and replacing mains with the same size or required minimum size pipe if breakage from construction occurs.
d. Erecting project and treatment works identification signs.
e. Preparing a site for construction, including surveying, staking, and grading.
f. Restoring the construction site to original condition or upgrading the site to meet state and local requirements.
g. Removing, relocating or replacing utilities, providing temporary utilities, installing new utility equipment, or upgrading utilities, if the recipient is legally obligated to pay these costs.
27. ‘Safety.’ Purchasing and installing safety equipment to be used in the operation and maintenance of the treatment works or BMP.
28. ‘Sanitary sewers.’ Evaluation, new installation, replacement, and lining and other rehabilitation of sanitary sewer pipes.
29. ‘Security.’ Purchasing and installing security equipment and appurtenances for the treatment works, including surveillance cameras, fencing, security alarms, and motion detectors, and conducting a vulnerability assessment if necessary for determining security needs.
30. ‘Septage facilities.’ Facilities for receiving, storing or treating septage.
Note: “Septage”, under s. 281.58 (1) (cv), Stats., means the scum, liquid, sludge, or other waste in a septic tank, soil absorption field, holding tank, grease interceptor, privy, or other component of a private on-site wastewater treatment system. 31. ‘Sludge removal.’ Removing sludge when necessary as part of a scored project, including treatment plant upgrades, lagoon abandonment, conversion of a lagoon into an equalization basin, or other capital improvements.
32. ‘Special assessment fees.’ Financial and legal costs associated with the process of preparing and implementing special assessments when the municipality is pledging special assessments for repayment of its CWFP loan.
33. ‘Staffing evaluations.’ Conducting an evaluation of staffing needs to determine appropriate changes to staffing levels as a result of the scored project.
34. ‘Startup.’ Startup expenses for a treatment works or BMP incurred solely because of the scored project, including costs for any of the following:
a. Preparing a startup curriculum and training materials.
b. Initial training of operating personnel on new or modified equipment, laboratory procedures, computers, controls, records management, and treatment processes.
c. Obtaining expert operational assistance for adjustments to the treatment process.
d. Implementing a maintenance management system.
e. Trucking seed sludge for start−up of the activated sludge process.
f. Attending off−site formal training programs if necessary for the initial operation of the constructed treatment works.
