Section 51-0303. Definitions

As used in this title, the following terms shall mean and include:
    2.  "Construction".  The  erection, building, acquisition, alteration,
  reconstruction, improvement or extension of sewage treatment works;  the
  inspection  and supervision thereof; and the engineering, architectural,
  legal, fiscal and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs,
  plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, and  other  actions
  necessary thereto;
    3.  "Eligible  project".  A  water quality improvement project for the
  construction of sewage treatment works,
    a. for which a permit has been issued by the department,
    b. which is, in the judgment  of  the  commissioner,  in  accord  with
  applicable comprehensive studies and reports,
    c. which is approved for federal pollution abatement assistance,
    d. which conforms with applicable law, rules and regulations, and
    e.  which  is,  in the judgment of the commissioner, necessary for the
  accomplishment of the state water pollution control program;
    4. "Federal pollution abatement  assistance".  Funds  available  to  a
  municipality,  either  directly or through allocation by the state, from
  the federal government as grants for construction  of  sewage  treatment
  works,  pursuant  to  the  federal  water pollution control act and acts
  amendatory thereto;
    5. "Municipality". A city, county, town, village, the New  York  state
  environmental  facilities  corporation, a sewer authority within a city,
  or an improvement  district  or  district  corporation  within  a  city,
  county,  town  or  village,  or  Indian  tribes residing within New York
  state, or any combination thereof;
    6. "Project cost". The  actual  cost  or  estimated  reasonable  cost,
  whichever is lower, of construction of an eligible project;
    7.  "Water  quality improvement project". A sewage treatment works for
  the purpose of treating, neutralizing or stabilizing  sewage,  including
  treatment  or  disposal  plants, the necessary intercepting, outfall and
  outlet sewers, pumping stations  integral  to  such  plants  or  sewers,
  equipment and furnishings thereof and their appurtenances.