As used in this chapter, the following words have the following meanings:

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

(b) “Committee” means the Clean Water and Water Reclamation Finance Committee created by Section 14067.

(c) “Construction” has the same meaning as in the Federal Clean Water Act.

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

(1) Necessary to prevent pollution.

(2) Eligible for federal assistance pursuant to Title VI of the Federal Clean Water Act.

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

(e) “Eligible reclamation project” means a water reclamation project which is cost-effective when compared with the cost of alternative new freshwater supplies, and for which no federal assistance is currently available. These projects shall comply with applicable water quality standards, policies, and plans.

(f) “Federal assistance” means funds available to a local agency pursuant to the Federal Clean Water Act.

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

(h) “Fund” means the 1988 Clean Water and Water Reclamation Fund created pursuant to Section 14055.

(i) “Local public agency” means any city, county, district, joint powers authority, or any other local public body or political subdivision of the state created by or pursuant to state law and involved with water or waste water management.

(j) “Municipality” has the same meaning as in the Federal Clean Water Act and also includes the state or any agency, department, or political subdivision thereof.

(k) “Small community” means a municipality with a population of 3,500 persons or less, or a reasonably isolated and divisible segment of a larger municipality encompassing 3,500 persons or less, with a financial hardship as defined by the board.

(l) “State grant” means a grant given to a qualifying small community eligible for federal assistance under Title VI of the Federal Clean Water Act.

(m) “State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund” means a revolving fund created under state law for the purpose of issuing loans for the construction of eligible treatment works in accordance with the federal act.

(n) “Treatment works” has the same meaning as in the Federal Clean Water Act.

(Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 47, Sec. 2. Approved in Proposition 83 at the November 8, 1988, election.)