§ 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.