As used in this chapter, and for purposes of this chapter as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code), the following words shall have the following meanings:

(a) “Committee” means the Clean Water Finance Committee created by Section 13999.4.

(b) “Board” means the State Water Resources Control Board.

(c) “Fund” means the 1984 State Clean Water Bond Fund.

(d) “Municipality” shall have the same meaning as in the federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq.) and shall also include the state or any agency, department, or political subdivision thereof.

(e) “Treatment works” shall have the same meaning as in the federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq.).

(f) “Construction” shall have the same meaning as in the federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq.).

(g) “Eligible project” means a project for the construction of treatment works which is all of the following:

(1) Necessary to prevent water pollution.

(2) Eligible for federal assistance, whether or not federal funds are then available.

(3) Certified by the board as entitled to priority over other treatment works, and which complies with applicable water quality standards, policies, and plans.

(h) “Eligible water reclamation project” means a water reclamation project which is cost-effective when compared to the development of other new sources of water, and for which no federal assistance is currently available. These projects or activities shall comply with applicable water quality standards, policies, and plans.

(i) “Federal assistance” means funds available to a municipality, either directly or through allocation by the state, from the federal government to construct treatment works pursuant to the federal Clean Water Act.

(j) “Small community” means a municipality with a population of 5,000 persons or less, or a reasonably isolated and divisible segment of a larger municipality encompassing 5,000 persons or less, with a financial hardship as defined by the board.

(k) “Supplemental state assistance” means a grant given to a qualifying small community, in addition to the normal federal and state contributions, to reduce the local share of a project.

(l) “Federal Clean Water Act” means the existing federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq.) and any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.

(m) “Voluntary, cost-effective capital outlay water conservation programs” mean those feasible capital outlay measures to improve the efficiency of water use through benefits which exceed their costs. The programs include, but are not limited to, leak detection and repair within the water distribution and consumption system, distribution and installation of new and replacement water conserving fixtures and devices, valve repair and replacement, meter calibration and replacement, physical improvements to achieve corrosion control, irrigation system improvements to reduce leakage which results in the loss of otherwise usable water, tailwater pumpback recovery systems, construction of small reservoirs within irrigation systems which conserve water which has already been captured for irrigation use, and other physical improvements to irrigation systems. In each case, the department shall determine that there is a net savings of water as a result of each proposed project and that the project is cost-effective.

(n) “Department” means the Department of Water Resources.

(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 377, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 25 at the November 6, 1984, election.)