55,4141
Section
4141. 281.59 (3) (a) 6e. of the statutes is repealed.
55,4142
Section
4142. 281.59 (3) (a) 6m. of the statutes is repealed.
55,4143
Section
4143. 281.59 (3) (a) 7. of the statutes is repealed.
55,4144
Section
4144. 281.59 (3) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (3) (j) No later than November 1 of each odd-numbered year, the department of administration and the department jointly shall submit a report, to the building commission and committees as required under par. (bm), on the implementation of the amount established under sub. (3e) (b) as required under s. 281.58 (9m) (e), and on the operations and activities of the clean water fund program, the safe drinking water loan program and the land recycling loan program for the previous biennium.
55,4145
Section
4145. 281.59 (3e) (a) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4146
Section
4146. 281.59 (3e) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4147
Section
4147. 281.59 (3e) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4148
Section
4148. 281.59 (3e) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (3e) (d) The department may expend, for financial assistance in a biennium other than financial hardship assistance under s. 281.58 (13) (e), an amount up to 95 percent of the amount approved by the legislature under par. (b) available to provide financial assistance for projects under this section for that biennium. The department may expend such amount only from the percentage of the amount approved under par. (b) that is not available under par. (e) for financial hardship assistance.
55,4149
Section
4149. 281.59 (3e) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (3e) (e) The department may expend, for financial hardship assistance in a biennium under s. 281.58 (13) (e), an amount up to 5 percent of the amount approved by the legislature under par. (b) available to provide financial assistance for projects under this section for that biennium. The department may expend such amount only from the percentage of the amount approved by the legislature under par. (b) that is not available under par. (d) for financial assistance.
55,4150
Section
4150. 281.59 (3e) (f) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4151
Section
4151. 281.59 (3m) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4152
Section
4152. 281.59 (3s) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4152m
Section 4152m. 281.59 (4) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (4) (f) Revenue obligations may be contracted by the building commission when it reasonably appears to the building commission that all obligations incurred under this subsection, and all payments under an agreement or ancillary arrangement entered into under s. 18.55 (6) with respect to revenue obligations issued under this subsection, can be fully paid on a timely basis from moneys received or anticipated to be received. Revenue obligations issued under this subsection for the clean water fund program shall not exceed $2,708,900,000 $2,526,700,000 in principal amount, excluding obligations issued to refund outstanding revenue obligation notes.
55,4153
Section
4153. 281.59 (9) (am) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (9) (am) The department of administration, in consultation with the department, may establish those terms and conditions of a financial assistance agreement that relate to its financial management, including what type of municipal obligation, as set forth under sub. (13f), if applicable, is required for the repayment of the financial assistance. Any terms and conditions established under this paragraph by the department of administration shall comply with the requirements of this section and s. 281.58, 281.60 or 281.61. In setting the terms and conditions, the department of administration may consider factors that the department of administration finds are relevant, including the type of obligation evidencing the loan, the pledge of security for the obligation and the applicant's creditworthiness.
55,4154
Section
4154. 281.59 (11) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.59 (11) (a) The department of natural resources and the department of administration may enter into a financial assistance agreement with an applicant for which the department of administration has allocated subsidy financial assistance under s. 281.58 (9m), 281.60 (8) or 281.61 (8) if the applicant meets the conditions under sub. (9) and the other requirements under this section and s. 281.58, 281.60 or 281.61.
55,4155
Section
4155. 281.60 (7) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4156
Section
4156. 281.60 (8) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 281.60 (8).
55,4157
Section
4157. 281.60 (8) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4158
Section
4158. 281.60 (8s) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.60 (8s) Limitation on financial assistance. The amount of a payment under sub. (2r) (d) may not exceed the amount of subsidy necessary to reduce the interest rate on the loan from market rate to the interest rate that would have been charged on a loan to the political subdivision under sub. (2r) (a).
55,4159
Section
4159. 281.60 (12) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
281.60 (12) (b) 3. If the sale proceeds are greater than the cost of the land plus the cost of the cleanup, pay to the department of administration an amount equal to the remaining loan balance plus the lesser of 75% of the amount by which the sale proceeds exceed the cost of the land plus the cost of the cleanup or the amount of subsidy incurred for the project difference between the amount of interest paid on the loan and the amount of interest that would have been paid if the loan had been made at the market rate, and retain the remainder of the sale proceeds.
55,4160
Section
4160. 281.61 (1) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 281.61 (1) (am).
55,4161
Section
4161. 281.61 (1) (ag) of the statutes is created to read:
281.61 (1) (ag) "Community water system" means a public water system that serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or that regularly serves at least 25 year-round residents.
55,4163
Section
4163. 281.61 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61
(2) General. The department and the department of administration shall administer a program to provide financial assistance to local governmental units
and to the private owners of community water systems that serve local governmental units for projects for the planning, designing, construction or modification of public water systems, if the projects will facilitate compliance with national primary drinking water regulations under
42 USC 300g-1 or otherwise significantly further the health protection objectives of the Safe Drinking Water Act,
42 USC 300f to
300j-26.
55,4164
Section
4164. 281.61 (2g) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61
(2g) Ineligible projects. A local governmental unit
or the private owner of a community water system that serves a local governmental unit is not eligible for financial assistance under this section if the local governmental unit
or the private owner of the community water system that serves a local governmental unit does not have the technical, managerial or financial capacity to ensure compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act,
42 USC 300f to
300j-26, or the public water system operated by the local governmental unit
or private owner of the community water system that serves a local governmental unit is in significant noncompliance with any requirement of a primary drinking water regulation or variance under
42 USC 300g-1 unless the financial assistance will ensure compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act.
55,4165
Section
4165. 281.61 (2r) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61 (2r) (b) Purchasing or refinancing the obligation of a local governmental unit or private owner of a community water system that serves a local governmental unit if the obligation was incurred to finance the cost of a project described in sub. (2) and the obligation was initially incurred after July 1, 1993.
55,4165m
Section 4165m. 281.61 (2r) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61
(2r) (e) Using funds received as federal capitalization grants under
42 USC 300j-12, any other method that is consistent with the federal program for safe drinking water state loan funds under
42 USC 300j-12 or any other federal law providing funding for or otherwise relating to that program
, except that funds received as federal capitalization grants may not be used to provide principal forgiveness to a private owner of a community water system.
55,4166
Section
4166. 281.61 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61 (3) Notice of intent to apply. (a) A local governmental unit or private owner of a community water system that serves a local governmental unit shall submit notice of its intent to apply for financial assistance under the safe drinking water loan program at least 6 months before the beginning of the fiscal year in which it intends to receive the financial assistance. The notice shall be in a form prescribed by the department and the department of administration.
(c) The department may waive par. (a) upon the written request of a local governmental unit or private owner of a community water system that serves a local governmental unit.
55,4167
Section
4167. 281.61 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61 (4) Engineering report. A local governmental unit or private owner of a community water system that serves a local governmental unit seeking financial assistance for a project under this section shall submit an engineering report, as required by the department by rule.
55,4168
Section
4168. 281.61 (5) of the statutes is renumbered 281.61 (5) (a) and amended to read:
281.61 (5) (a) After the department approves a local governmental unit's an engineering report submitted under sub. (4), the local governmental unit or private owner of a community water system that serves a local governmental unit shall submit an application for safe drinking water financial assistance to the department. The applicant shall submit the application on or before the June 30 preceding the beginning of the fiscal year in which the applicant wishes to receive the financial assistance, except that if funds are available in a fiscal year after funding has been allocated under sub. (8) for all approved applications submitted before the June 30 preceding that fiscal year, the department of administration may allocate funding for approved applications submitted after June 30. The application shall be in the form and include the information required by the department and the department of administration and shall include plans and specifications that are approvable by the department under this section. An applicant may not submit more than one application per project per year.
55,4169
Section
4169. 281.61 (5) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
281.61 (5) (b) The department of administration and the department jointly may charge and collect service fees, established by rule, which shall cover the estimated costs of reviewing and acting upon the application and servicing the financial assistance agreement. No service fee established by rule under this paragraph may be charged to or collected from an applicant for financial assistance under s. 281.59 (13). The fees collected under this paragraph shall be credited to the environmental improvement fund.
55,4170
Section
4170. 281.61 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61
(6) Priority list. The department shall establish a priority list that ranks each safe drinking water loan program project. The department shall promulgate rules for determining project rankings that, to the extent possible, give priority to projects that address the most serious risks to human health, that are necessary to ensure compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act,
42 USC 300f to
300j-26, and that assist
local governmental units applicants that are most in need on a per household basis, according to affordability criteria specified in the rules. For the purpose of ranking projects under this subsection, the department shall treat a project to upgrade a public water system to provide continuous disinfection of the water that it distributes as if the public water system were a surface water system that federal law requires to provide continuous disinfection.
55,4171
Section
4171. 281.61 (7) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61 (7) (c) The department of administration determines that the local governmental unit applicant will meet the requirements of s. 281.59 (9) (b).
55,4172
Section
4172. 281.61 (7) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4173
Section
4173. 281.61 (8) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is renumbered 281.61 (8) (intro.) and amended to read:
281.61 (8) (intro.) The department shall establish a funding list for each fiscal year that ranks projects of local governmental units applicants that submit approvable applications under sub. (5) in the same order that they appear on the priority list under sub. (6). If sufficient funds are not available to fund all approved applications for financial assistance, the department of administration shall allocate funding to projects that are approved under sub. (7) in the order that they appear on the funding list, except as follows:
55,4174
Section
4174. 281.61 (8) (a) 1. of the statutes is renumbered 281.61 (8) (a).
55,4175
Section
4175. 281.61 (8) (a) 2. of the statutes is renumbered 281.61 (8) (bL) and amended to read:
281.61 (8) (bL) In any biennium, no local governmental unit applicant may receive more than 25% of the funds that the department of administration projects will be available amount of financial assistance planned to be provided or committed for projects under this section for that biennium.
55,4176
Section
4176. 281.61 (8) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4177
Section
4177. 281.61 (8m) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61 (8m) Conditions of financial assistance for local governmental units. (intro.) As a condition of receiving financial assistance under the safe drinking water loan program, a local governmental unit shall do all of the following:
55,4178
Section
4178. 281.61 (8p) of the statutes is created to read:
281.61 (8p) Conditions of financial assistance for private owners. As a condition of receiving financial assistance under the safe drinking water loan program, a private owner of a community water system that serves a local governmental unit shall do all of the following:
(a) Demonstrate that there is adequate security for the repayment of the financial assistance.
(b) Comply with those provisions of
42 USC 300f to
300j-26 and this chapter and the regulations and rules promulgated under those provisions that the department specifies.
55,4179
Section
4179. 281.61 (8s) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61 (8s) Limitation on financial assistance. The amount of a payment under sub. (2r) (d) may not exceed the amount of subsidy necessary to reduce the interest rate on the loan from market rate to the interest rate that would have been charged on a loan to the local governmental unit under sub. (2r) (a).
55,4180
Section
4180. 281.61 (11) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61 (11) (a) 1. For a local governmental unit an applicant that does not meet financial eligibility criteria established by the department by rule, 55% of market interest rate.
55,4181
Section
4181. 281.61 (11) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61 (11) (a) 2. For a local governmental unit an applicant that meets financial eligibility criteria established by the department by rule, 33% of market interest rate.
55,4182
Section
4182. 281.61 (12) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.61 (12) (g) Have the lead state role with local governmental units and private owners of community water systems that serve a local governmental unit in providing safe drinking water loan program information, and cooperate with the department of administration in providing that information to local governmental units.
55,4183
Section
4183. 281.625 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.625 (1) (b) "Local governmental unit" has the meaning given in s. 281.61 (1) (a) (am), except that the term does not include a joint local water authority created under s. 66.0823.
55,4188t
Section 4188t. 281.66 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.66 (4) (a) The department may provide local assistance grants and cost-sharing grants under this section. A local assistance grant may not exceed 70% of eligible costs. A or cost-sharing grant may not exceed 50% of eligible costs.
55,4189d
Section 4189d. 281.665 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
281.665 (4) (a) The department may provide local assistance grants and cost-sharing grants under this section. A local assistance grant may not exceed 70%
50 percent of eligible costs, including planning and design costs. A cost-sharing grant may not exceed 70%
50 percent of eligible costs for construction and real estate acquisition.
55,4203
Section
4203. 283.35 (1m) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
55,4203d
Section 4203d. 283.83 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
283.83 (1) (intro.) The department shall establish a continuing water pollution control quality management planning process which is consistent with applicable state requirements. The continuing planning process shall result in plans for all waters of the state, which plans shall include:
55,4203f
Section 4203f. 283.83 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
283.83 (1) (b) The incorporation of all elements of any applicable areawide waste water quality management plans, basin plans and statewide land use plans;
55,4203m
Section 4203m. 283.83 (1m) of the statutes is created to read:
283.83 (1m) (a) The department shall approve or reject proposed revisions to the areawide water quality management plan for the area consisting of Dane County. The department shall base a decision under this paragraph on whether the proposed revision complies with the water quality standards under s. 281.15. The department may place conditions on its approval of a proposed revision to the plan.
(b) The department, or a person contracting with the department under par. (f), may not require information concerning a proposed revision to the areawide water quality management plan for the area consisting of Dane County other than information that is reasonably necessary to determine whether the proposed revision complies with water quality standards under s. 281.15.
(c) 1. Except as provided under subd. 2., the department shall approve or reject a proposed revision to the areawide water quality management plan for the area consisting of Dane County no later than the 90th day after the day on which the department, or a person contracting with the department under par. (f), receives the formal application for the proposed revision, including a letter from the applicant certifying that the proposed revision is consistent with water quality standards and information supporting the certification. If the department determines that the application is incomplete, the department shall notify the applicant in writing within 10 days after the department receives the application and may make only one request for additional information during the 90-day period under this subdivision.
2. If the department does not approve or reject a proposed revision to the areawide water quality management plan by the 90th day after the day on which the request is received, the revision is approved on the 120th day after the day on which the department receives the formal application for the revision, unless the department petitions the circuit court for an order extending the time to act on the proposed revision. The court may issue an order extending the time for the department to act on the proposed revision by an amount it determines is reasonable.
