Section 1160. Definitions

As used in this section:
    1.  "Allocation"  means  the  amount  of  moneys allocated to reduce a
  recipient's or group of recipients' total financing  costs  for  one  or
  more eligible projects.
    2.   "Construction"   means   the   erection,  building,  acquisition,
  alteration, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement or extension of  an
  eligible  project;  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. "Corporation" means the New  York  state  environmental  facilities
  corporation,  continued pursuant to section twelve hundred eighty-two of
  the public authorities law, or any successor thereto.
    4. "Eligible project" means a project  for  construction  of  a  water
  supply  facility which is intended to improve drinking water facilities,
  including a project that  would  be  eligible  for  financing  under  or
  designed  to  comply  with the requirements of the federal safe drinking
  water act or other applicable  federal  law  and  state  drinking  water
  quality goals and standards, which the commissioner has determined:
    (a)  is  necessary  for the objectives and goals of the state sanitary
  code or the federal safe  drinking  water  act  to  assure  safe  public
  drinking water;
    (b)  represents  a  reasonable effort to develop a viable water supply
  that can consistently meet drinking water standards;
    (c) takes into consideration the water resources  management  strategy
  pursuant  to  title  twenty-nine of article fifteen of the environmental
  conservation law;
    (d) is a project for which financial assistance is available from  the
  fund; and
    (e) conforms with applicable state rules and regulations.
    5.  "Financial  assistance to a recipient" has the same meaning as set
  forth in subdivision four of section twelve hundred eighty-five-m of the
  public authorities law.
    6. "Financing agreement" means an agreement  between  the  corporation
  and  one  or  more recipients meeting the requirements of section eleven
  hundred sixty-three of this title.
    7. "Fund" means the drinking water revolving  fund  established  under
  section twelve hundred eighty-five-m of the public authorities law.
    8.  "Intended  use plan" means a plan identifying the intended uses of
  the amounts available in the fund, including but not limited to:
    (a) a  list  of  those  projects  for  construction  of  water  supply
  facilities  on  the  priority  list developed pursuant to section eleven
  hundred sixty-one of this title;
    (b) a description of the short and long term goals and  objectives  of
  the fund;
    (c)  information  on  the  activities  to  be  supported,  including a
  description of project categories, terms  of  financial  assistance  and
  communities served; and
    (d)  the  criteria  and  method  established  for  the distribution of
  financial assistance from the fund.
    9. "Municipality" means any  county,  city,  town,  village,  district
  corporation,  county  or  town  improvement  district,  school district,
  Indian nation or tribe recognized by the state or the United States with
  a reservation wholly or partly within the boundaries of New York  state,
  any  public benefit corporation or public authority established pursuant
  to the laws of New York or  any  agency  of  New  York  state  which  is
  empowered  to  construct  and operate an eligible project, or any two or

  more of the foregoing which are acting jointly  in  connection  with  an
  eligible project.
    10.  "Recipient"  means  any  municipality, public utility, or person,
  including any individual, firm, partnership, association, not-for-profit
  corporation or other corporation organized and existing under  the  laws
  of  the  state  or  any  other state which is empowered to construct and
  operate an eligible project, or any two or more of the  foregoing  which
  are acting jointly in connection with an eligible project.