Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF0843

Relating to the environment; increasing the amount of the balance in the water
pollution control revolving fund authorized to be appropriated to the
commissioner of agriculture for the agricultural best management practices loan
program; requiring the public facilities authority to establish a drinking water
infrastructure funding program to provide supplemental assistance to local
government units applying for funding under the drinking water revolving fund or
the federal department of agriculture rural economic and community development
water and waste disposal loan and grants program for construction of or
improvements to drinking water treatment systems; requiring supplemental
assistance to be in the form of grants, providing for repayments deferral upon
request of the commissioner of health under certain conditions; requiring
projects certification and priority ranking by the commissioner; specifying
eligible costs, certain funding limits and application and disbursement
requirements; requiring use of repayments for additional assistance; specifying
certain annual reporting requirements; requiring assistance recipients to
establish system replacement funds, specifying certain maintenance and use
requirements; appropriating money to the public facilities authority for state
matching money for federal grants to capitalize the water pollution control and
drinking water revolving funds and for the wastewater and drinking water
infrastructure funding programs, to the commissioner of agriculture for best
management practices and individual sewage treatment system loans, to the
commissioner of the pollution control agency (PCA) for the clean water
partnership loan and individual sewage treatment system programs and to the
board of water and soil resources (BOWSR) for feedlot water quality management
cost sharing contracts (mk)