Adm 93.03(7)(7) “CDBG funds” means community development block grant funds awarded to the department by the federal government under 42 USC 5301 to 5319.

Adm 93.03(10)(10) “Eligible local government” means a local government that is eligible to apply for and receive CDBG funds under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s State and Small Cities Program pursuant to 24 CFR 570.3.

Adm 93.03(12)(12) “Environmental audit” means an investigation, analysis, and monitoring of a brownfield site to determine the existence and extent of actual or potential environmental pollution.

Adm 93.03 NoteNote: Section 291.01 (4), Stats., defines “environmental pollution” to mean the contamination or rendering unclean or impure the air, land or waters of the state, or making the same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal or plant life.

Adm 93.03 NoteNote: Section 238.13 (1) (d), Stats., reads: “Environmental remediation activities” means investigation, analysis and monitoring of a brownfields facility or site to determine the existence and extent of actual or potential environmental pollution; abating, removing or containing environmental pollution at a brownfields facility or site; or restoring soil or groundwater at a brownfields facility or site.

Adm 93.03 NoteNote: Section 71.07 (2dx) (a) 4. reads: “Full-time job” means a regular, non-seasonal full-time position in which an individual, as a condition of employment, is required to work at least 2,080 hours per year, including paid leave and holidays, and for which the individual receives pay that is equal to at least 150% of the federal minimum wage and receives benefits that are not required by federal or state law. “Full-time job” does not include initial training before an employment position begins.

Adm 93.03(17)(17) “Local government” means a city, village, town, or county that is in a nonentitlement area as defined in 24 CFR 570.3 and is not eligible to directly apply for or participate in the federal community development block grant entitlement program.

Adm 93.03(18)(18) “Low to moderate household income” means the median household income in the county where the local government is located, as reported by the latest U.S. census and updated periodically by HUD.

Adm 93.03(20)(20) “Net mill rate” means the total of all property taxes levied by local governments against a given property for all purposes less general property tax relief payments divided by the estimated market value of taxable property in the municipality.

Adm 93.03(21)(21) “Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, nonprofit organization, city, village, town, county, or trustee, including a trustee in bankruptcy.

Adm 93.03 NoteNote: The definition of “program income,” including applicable exceptions, is too lengthy to be quoted in full here. A summary of the definition of the term “program income” is all gross income received by a unit of general local government, or a subrecipient of a unit of general local government, that was generated from the use of CDBG funds.

Adm 93.03(22)(22) “Public facilities economic development program” means the public facilities economic development program administered under subch. IV.

Adm 93.03(23)(23) “Public facilities plan” means a written plan for proposed project for which an eligible local government may seek funding under subch. VII.

Adm 93.03(25)(25) “Residential utility rate” means for areas served by public water and sanitary sewer service, the average annual household utility rate paid for water and sanitary sewer services determined by dividing the total gross annual residential water and sewer revenue collected for the preceding calendar year by the number of households, as reported by the latest U.S. census and updated periodically by the U.S. department of commerce.

Adm 93.03(26)(26) “Site redevelopment plan” means a plan adopted by a local government for the acquisition, clearance, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and future use of a blighted or brownfield site.

Adm 93.04Adm 93.04 National objectives. A project funded with CDBG funds under this chapter shall meet one or more national objectives as enumerated in and required by 24 CFR 570.

Adm 93.05Adm 93.05 Application materials and manual. The department shall prepare application materials and an application instruction manual, all of which may be updated as needed. The application materials shall set forth the application instructions and requirements for funding under the programs described in this chapter. The application instruction manual shall contain a scoring system to be utilized under s. Adm 93.09 (1) (a); amounts required as “minimal local financial participation” required under s. Adm 93.09 (1) (b); and the point systems related to distress indicators utilized under ss. Adm 93.10 to 93.13.