For the purposes of the Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program:

1. "Water quality project" means:

a.any engineering undertaking or work to control or develop sewage treatment facilities of the state for all useful and lawful purposes,

b.any system necessary to improve or develop sewage treatment, collection or distribution capabilities,

c.urban storm water activities that are administered under the Oklahoma Brownfields Voluntary Redevelopment Act for eligible entities that have obtained a draft or final permit pursuant to the National Pollution Discharge Elimination Act or the Oklahoma Pollution Discharge Elimination Act, or

d.capital works, capital improvements, capital equipment, environmental cleanups, land acquisition, or implementation of management practices for the purpose of protecting or improving surface or underground water quality through watershed management or reduction of nonpoint source pollution as authorized by the federal Water Quality Act of 1987 and Section 1085.65 of this title,

e.any implementation of estuary conservation and management programs as authorized by the federal Water Quality Act of 1987,

f.any other water quality project as may be authorized by the federal Water Quality Act of 1987;

2. "Investment certificate" means any note or bond, including any renewal note or refunding bond, authorized and issued by the Board pursuant to the provisions of this act;

3. "Eligible entity" means any city, town, county or the State of Oklahoma, and any rural sewer district, public trust, master conservancy district, any other political subdivision or any combination thereof;

4. "Board" means the Oklahoma Water Resources Board;

5. "Clean Water State Revolving Fund Loan Account" means the Clean Water State Revolving Fund Loan Account created pursuant to Section 1085.53 of this title;

6. "Clean Water State Revolving Fund Loan Administrative Fund" means the Clean Water State Revolving Fund Loan Administrative Fund created pursuant to Section 1085.64 of this title;

7. "Conservation Commission" means the Oklahoma Conservation Commission;

8. "Department" means the Department of Environmental Quality; and

9. "Federal Water Quality Act of 1987" means the federal Water Quality Act of 1987 as exists on July 1, 1988, as may be amended, and any successor statute.

Added by Laws 1988, c. 202, § 2, operative July 1, 1988. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 325, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1999, c. 381, § 2, emerg. eff. June 8, 1999; Laws 2002, c. 322, § 2, emerg. eff. May 30, 2002.