SB21-SSA1,4117
1Section 4117. 281.57 (7) (c) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1271,82 281.57 (7) (c) 1. Metropolitan sewerage districts that serve 1st class cities are
3limited in each fiscal year to receiving total grant awards not to exceed 33% of the
4sum of the amounts in the schedule for that fiscal year for the appropriation under
5s. 20.165 (2) (de) (ke) and the amount authorized under sub. (10) for that fiscal year
6plus the unencumbered balance at the end of the preceding fiscal year for the amount
7authorized under sub. (10). This subdivision is not applicable to grant awards
8provided during fiscal years 1985-86, 1986-87, 1988-89 and 1989-90.
SB21-SSA1,4119 9Section 4119. 281.58 (8) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1271,1510 281.58 (8) (c) Except as provided in par. (k), financial assistance may be
11provided for the design, planning and construction of a collection system, interceptor
12or individual system project in an unsewered municipality or an unsewered area of
13a municipality, only if the department finds that at least two-thirds of the initial flow
14will be for wastewater originating from residences in existence on October 17, 1972
15for at least 20 years prior to the submission of the application under sub. (9) (a).
SB21-SSA1,4120 16Section 4120. 281.58 (8) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1271,2117 281.58 (8) (i) After June 30, 1991, no municipality may receive for projects in
18a biennium an amount that exceeds 35.2% of the amount approved by the legislature
19under s. 281.59 (3e) (b)
that the department of administration projects will be
20available to provide financial assistance for projects under this section
for that
21biennium.
SB21-SSA1,4121 22Section 4121. 281.58 (8) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1272,223 281.58 (8) (j) The amount of a payment under sub. (6) (b) 8. may not exceed the
24amount of subsidy necessary to reduce the interest rate on the loan from market rate

1to the interest rate that would have been charged on a loan to the municipality under
2sub. (6) (b) 4.
SB21-SSA1,4122 3Section 4122. 281.58 (9) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1272,164 281.58 (9) (e) If the department of natural resources and the department of
5administration determine that the governor's recommendation, as set forth in the
6executive budget bill, for the amount under s. 281.59 (3e) (b), the amount available
7under s. 20.866 (2) (tc), or the amount available under s. 281.59 (4) (f)
the total
8amount that the department of administration projects will be available to provide
9financial assistance for projects under this section
for a biennium , as set forth in the
10biennial finance plan under s. 281.59 (3) (a) 2. and as updated under s. 281.59 (3) (bm)
112.,
is insufficient to provide funding for all projects for which applications will be
12approved during that biennium, the department shall inform municipalities that, if
13the governor's recommendations are approved, clean water fund program assistance
14during a fiscal year of that biennium will be available only to municipalities that
15submit financial assistance applications by the June 30 preceding September 30 of
16that fiscal year.
SB21-SSA1,4123 17Section 4123. 281.58 (9m) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1272,1918 281.58 (9m) (a) (intro.) Subject to pars. (c) and par. (d), the department shall
19approve an application after all of the following occur:
SB21-SSA1,4124 20Section 4124. 281.58 (9m) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4125 21Section 4125. 281.58 (9m) (e) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1273,222 281.58 (9m) (e) 1. Except as provided under par. (f) and sub. (13), if a sufficient
23amount of subsidy financial assistance under this section is available under s. 281.59
24(3e) (b)
for the municipality's project, based on the calculation under s. 281.59 (3e)

1(f),
when the department approves the application under par. (a), the department of
2administration shall allocate that amount to the project.
SB21-SSA1,4126 3Section 4126. 281.58 (9m) (e) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1273,84 281.58 (9m) (e) 2. If a sufficient amount of subsidy financial assistance under
5this section
is not available under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) for the municipality's project
6when the department approves the application under subd. 1. par. (a), the
7department shall place the project on a list for allocation when additional subsidy
8becomes
financial assistance becomes available.
SB21-SSA1,4127 9Section 4127. 281.58 (9m) (f) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1273,1510 281.58 (9m) (f) (intro.) If the department of natural resources and the
11department of administration determine that the amount approved under s. 281.59
12(3e) (b), the amount available under s. 20.866 (2) (tc), or the amount available under
13s. 281.59 (4) (f)
available to provide financial assistance for projects under this
14section
for a biennium is insufficient to provide funding for all projects for which
15applications will be approved during that biennium, all of the following apply:
SB21-SSA1,4128 16Section 4128. 281.58 (9m) (f) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1273,2117 281.58 (9m) (f) 1. The department shall establish a funding list for each fiscal
18year of the biennium that ranks projects of municipalities that submit financial
19assistance applications under sub. (9) (a) no later than the June 30 preceding
20September 30 of the fiscal year in the same order that they appear on the priority list
21under sub. (8e).
SB21-SSA1,4129 22Section 4129. 281.58 (9m) (fm) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1274,423 281.58 (9m) (fm) The department, in consultation with the department of
24administration, shall promulgate, by rule, methods to establish deadlines for actions
25that must be taken by a municipality to which subsidy financial assistance has been

1allocated. The methods may provide for extending deadlines under specified
2circumstances. If a municipality fails to meet a deadline, including any extension,
3the department of administration shall release rescind the amount allocation of
4subsidy allocated to financial assistance for the municipality's project.
SB21-SSA1,4130 5Section 4130. 281.58 (9m) (g) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4131 6Section 4131. 281.58 (12) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1274,137 281.58 (12) (a) 1. Except as modified under par. (f) and except as restricted by
8sub. (8) (b), (c), (f) or (h), the interest rate for projects specified in sub. (7) (b) 1. and
92.
to 5. is 60 75 percent of market interest rate for projects for which the subsidy is
10was allocated from the amount under s. 281.59 (3e) (b), 2013 stats., for a biennium
11before the 2011-13 2015-17 biennium and 75 70 percent of market interest rate for
12projects for which the subsidy financial assistance is allocated from the amount
13under s. 281.59 (3e) (b)
under this section for the 2011-13 2015-17 biennium or later.
SB21-SSA1,4132m 14Section 4132m. 281.58 (12) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4133m 15Section 4133m. 281.58 (12) (a) 3. of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4134 16Section 4134. 281.58 (13m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1274,2017 281.58 (13m) (b) Grants provided under this subsection are not included for
18the purposes of determining under sub. (8) (i) the amount that a municipality may
19receive for projects under the clean water fund program. Grants awarded under this
20subsection are not considered for the purposes of sub. (9m) (e) or s. 281.59 (3e) (b).
SB21-SSA1,4135 21Section 4135. 281.58 (15) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1275,222 281.58 (15) (a) The department and the department of administration may, at
23the request of a municipality, issue a notice of financial assistance commitment to the
24municipality after the department approves the municipality's application under

1sub. (9m) (a) and the department of administration has allocated subsidy financial
2assistance
for the municipality's project.
SB21-SSA1,4136 3Section 4136. 281.59 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1275,124 281.59 (1) (b) "Market interest rate" means the effective interest rate on a
5fixed-rate revenue obligation issued by the state to fund a loan made under this
6section or, for a variable rate if the department of administration determines that
7there has been a significant change in interest rates after the fixed-rate revenue
8obligation has been issued or if a fixed-rate revenue
obligation has not been issued
9by the state to fund a loan made under this section
, the effective interest rate that
10the department of administration determines would have been paid if the variable
11rate
a fixed-rate revenue obligation had been sold at a fixed rate issued on the date
12financial assistance is allotted
.
SB21-SSA1,4137 13Section 4137. 281.59 (1) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4139 14Section 4139. 281.59 (3) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1275,1715 281.59 (3) (a) 2. The total amount of that the department of administration
16projects will be available to provide
financial assistance planned to be provided or
17committed
for projects under subd. 1. during the next biennium.
SB21-SSA1,4140 18Section 4140. 281.59 (3) (a) 6. of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4141 19Section 4141. 281.59 (3) (a) 6e. of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4142 20Section 4142. 281.59 (3) (a) 6m. of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4143 21Section 4143. 281.59 (3) (a) 7. of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4144 22Section 4144. 281.59 (3) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1276,423 281.59 (3) (j) No later than November 1 of each odd-numbered year, the
24department of administration and the department jointly shall submit a report, to
25the building commission and committees as required under par. (bm), on the

1implementation of the amount established under sub. (3e) (b) as required under s.
2281.58 (9m) (e), and
on the operations and activities of the clean water fund program,
3the safe drinking water loan program and the land recycling loan program for the
4previous biennium.
SB21-SSA1,4145 5Section 4145. 281.59 (3e) (a) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4146 6Section 4146. 281.59 (3e) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4147 7Section 4147. 281.59 (3e) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4148 8Section 4148. 281.59 (3e) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1276,159 281.59 (3e) (d) The department may expend, for financial assistance in a
10biennium other than financial hardship assistance under s. 281.58 (13) (e), an
11amount up to 95 percent of the amount approved by the legislature under par. (b)
12available to provide financial assistance for projects under this section for that
13biennium
. The department may expend such amount only from the percentage of the
14amount approved under par. (b) that is not available under par. (e) for financial
15hardship assistance.
SB21-SSA1,4149 16Section 4149. 281.59 (3e) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1276,2217 281.59 (3e) (e) The department may expend, for financial hardship assistance
18in a biennium under s. 281.58 (13) (e), an amount up to 5 percent of the amount
19approved by the legislature under par. (b) available to provide financial assistance
20for projects under this section
for that biennium. The department may expend such
21amount only from the percentage of the amount approved by the legislature under
22par. (b)
that is not available under par. (d) for financial assistance.
SB21-SSA1,4150 23Section 4150. 281.59 (3e) (f) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4151 24Section 4151. 281.59 (3m) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4152 25Section 4152. 281.59 (3s) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4152m
1Section 4152m. 281.59 (4) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1277,102 281.59 (4) (f) Revenue obligations may be contracted by the building
3commission when it reasonably appears to the building commission that all
4obligations incurred under this subsection, and all payments under an agreement or
5ancillary arrangement entered into under s. 18.55 (6) with respect to revenue
6obligations issued under this subsection, can be fully paid on a timely basis from
7moneys received or anticipated to be received. Revenue obligations issued under this
8subsection for the clean water fund program shall not exceed $2,708,900,000
9$2,526,700,000 in principal amount, excluding obligations issued to refund
10outstanding revenue obligation notes.
SB21-SSA1,4153 11Section 4153. 281.59 (9) (am) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1277,2112 281.59 (9) (am) The department of administration, in consultation with the
13department, may establish those terms and conditions of a financial assistance
14agreement that relate to its financial management, including what type of municipal
15obligation, as set forth under sub. (13f), if applicable, is required for the repayment
16of the financial assistance. Any terms and conditions established under this
17paragraph by the department of administration shall comply with the requirements
18of this section and s. 281.58, 281.60 or 281.61. In setting the terms and conditions,
19the department of administration may consider factors that the department of
20administration finds are relevant, including the type of obligation evidencing the
21loan, the pledge of security for the obligation and the applicant's creditworthiness.
SB21-SSA1,4154 22Section 4154. 281.59 (11) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1278,323 281.59 (11) (a) The department of natural resources and the department of
24administration may enter into a financial assistance agreement with an applicant
25for which the department of administration has allocated subsidy financial

1assistance
under s. 281.58 (9m), 281.60 (8) or 281.61 (8) if the applicant meets the
2conditions under sub. (9) and the other requirements under this section and s.
3281.58, 281.60 or 281.61.
SB21-SSA1,4155 4Section 4155. 281.60 (7) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4156 5Section 4156. 281.60 (8) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 281.60 (8).
SB21-SSA1,4157 6Section 4157. 281.60 (8) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
SB21-SSA1,4158 7Section 4158. 281.60 (8s) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1278,118 281.60 (8s) Limitation on financial assistance. The amount of a payment
9under sub. (2r) (d) may not exceed the amount of subsidy necessary to reduce the
10interest rate on the loan from market rate to the interest rate that would have been
11charged on a loan to the political subdivision under sub. (2r) (a).
SB21-SSA1,4159 12Section 4159. 281.60 (12) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1278,1913 281.60 (12) (b) 3. If the sale proceeds are greater than the cost of the land plus
14the cost of the cleanup, pay to the department of administration an amount equal to
15the remaining loan balance plus the lesser of 75% of the amount by which the sale
16proceeds exceed the cost of the land plus the cost of the cleanup or the amount of
17subsidy incurred for the project
difference between the amount of interest paid on
18the loan and the amount of interest that would have been paid if the loan had been
19made at the market rate,
and retain the remainder of the sale proceeds.
SB21-SSA1,4160 20Section 4160. 281.61 (1) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 281.61 (1) (am).
SB21-SSA1,4161 21Section 4161. 281.61 (1) (ag) of the statutes is created to read:
SB21-SSA1,1278,2422 281.61 (1) (ag) "Community water system" means a public water system that
23serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or that regularly
24serves at least 25 year-round residents.
SB21-SSA1,4163 25Section 4163. 281.61 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1279,8
1281.61 (2) General. The department and the department of administration
2shall administer a program to provide financial assistance to local governmental
3units and to the private owners of community water systems that serve local
4governmental units
for projects for the planning, designing, construction or
5modification of public water systems, if the projects will facilitate compliance with
6national primary drinking water regulations under 42 USC 300g-1 or otherwise
7significantly further the health protection objectives of the Safe Drinking Water Act,
842 USC 300f to 300j-26.
SB21-SSA1,4164 9Section 4164. 281.61 (2g) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1279,2010 281.61 (2g) Ineligible projects. A local governmental unit or the private
11owner of a community water system that serves a local governmental unit
is not
12eligible for financial assistance under this section if the local governmental unit or
13the private owner of the community water system that serves a local governmental
14unit
does not have the technical, managerial or financial capacity to ensure
15compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 USC 300f to 300j-26, or the public
16water system operated by the local governmental unit or private owner of the
17community water system that serves a local governmental unit
is in significant
18noncompliance with any requirement of a primary drinking water regulation or
19variance under 42 USC 300g-1 unless the financial assistance will ensure
20compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act.
SB21-SSA1,4165 21Section 4165. 281.61 (2r) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1279,2522 281.61 (2r) (b) Purchasing or refinancing the obligation of a local governmental
23unit or private owner of a community water system that serves a local governmental
24unit
if the obligation was incurred to finance the cost of a project described in sub.
25(2) and the obligation was initially incurred after July 1, 1993.
SB21-SSA1,4165m
1Section 4165m. 281.61 (2r) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1280,72 281.61 (2r) (e) Using funds received as federal capitalization grants under 42
3USC 300j-12
, any other method that is consistent with the federal program for safe
4drinking water state loan funds under 42 USC 300j-12 or any other federal law
5providing funding for or otherwise relating to that program, except that funds
6received as federal capitalization grants may not be used to provide principal
7forgiveness to a private owner of a community water system
.
SB21-SSA1,4166 8Section 4166. 281.61 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1280,149 281.61 (3) Notice of intent to apply. (a) A local governmental unit or private
10owner of a community water system that serves a local governmental unit
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-SSA1,1280,1715 (c) The department may waive par. (a) upon the written request of a local
16governmental unit or private owner of a community water system that serves a local
17governmental unit
.
SB21-SSA1,4167 18Section 4167. 281.61 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1280,2219 281.61 (4) Engineering report. A local governmental unit or private owner of
20a community water system that serves a local governmental unit
seeking financial
21assistance for a project under this section shall submit an engineering report, as
22required by the department by rule.
SB21-SSA1,4168 23Section 4168. 281.61 (5) of the statutes is renumbered 281.61 (5) (a) and
24amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1281,14
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 that serves a local governmental unit
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-SSA1,4169 15Section 4169. 281.61 (5) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
SB21-SSA1,1281,2216 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-SSA1,4170 23Section 4170. 281.61 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB21-SSA1,1282,924 281.61 (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-SSA1,4171 10Section 4171. 281.61 (7) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
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