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Title

10

:
Conservation and Development






Chapter

055

:
AID TO MUNICIPALITIES FOR WATER SUPPLY, POLLUTION ABATEMENT AND SEWER SEPARATION






Subchapter

001
:
GENERAL PROVISIONS










 

§

1571. Definitions

As used in this

chapter:

(1)

"Agency" means Agency of Natural Resources.

(2)

"Board" means the Natural Resources Board.

(3)

"Combined sewer separation facilities" means sewers, pipe lines,

pumps, structures and attendant facilities necessary to convey liquid wastes in

such a manner that industrial wastes, domestic sewage, or both, are conveyed

separately from storm water, and may include storm water treatment facilities.

(4)

"Department" means the Department of Environmental Conservation.

(5)

"Municipality" means a municipality as defined in 1 V.S.A. § 126.

(6)

"Pollution abatement facilities" means municipal sewage treatment

plants, pumping stations, interceptor and outfall sewers, and attendant

facilities as prescribed by the Department to abate pollution of the waters of

the State.

(7)

"Potable water supply facilities" means municipal water sources,

water treatment plants, structures, pipe lines, storage facilities, pumps and

attendant facilities necessary to develop a source of water, and to treat and

convey it in proper quantity and quality for public use within a municipality.

(8)

"Secretary" means the Secretary of Natural Resources or the

Secretary's duly authorized representative.

(9)

"Disadvantaged municipality" means a municipality or the served area

of a municipality which:

(A) Has a median

household income below the State average median household income as determined

by the Secretary, and which after construction of the proposed water supply

improvements will have an annual household user cost greater than one percent

of the median household income as determined by the Secretary; or

(B) Has a median

household income equal to or greater than the State average median household

income as determined by the Secretary, and which after construction of the

proposed water supply improvements will have an annual household user cost

greater than 2.5 percent of the median household income as determined by the

Secretary.

(10)

"Designated center" means a downtown development district, village

center, new town center, growth center, Vermont neighborhood, or neighborhood

development area designated under 24 V.S.A. chapter 76A. (Added 1971, No. 97, §

3, eff. April 22, 1971; amended 1981, No. 222 (Adj. Sess.), § 30; 1987, No. 76,

§ 18; 1997, No. 62, § 57, eff. June 26, 1997; 2003, No. 63, § 61, eff. June 11,

2003; 2003, No. 115 (Adj. Sess.), § 39, eff. Jan. 31, 2005; 2003, No. 121 (Adj.

Sess.), § 63, eff. June 8, 2004; 2013, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. June 1,

2014.)