Senate Bill No. 200–Senators Washington, Care,
Amodei and McGinness

 

February 25, 2003

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Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Marvel, Carpenter
and Grady

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Referred to Committee on Government Affairs

 

SUMMARY—Authorizes grants to pay certain costs associated with connections to community sewage disposal system. (BDR 30‑889)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: No.

                           Effect on the State: Yes.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to water; authorizing grants to pay certain costs associated with connecting to a community sewage disposal system; increasing the amount of general obligation bonds that the State Board of Finance may issue to provide the grants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1  Section 1. NRS 349.980 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2  349.980  As used in NRS 349.980 to 349.987, inclusive, unless

1-3  the context otherwise requires:

1-4  1.  “Board” means the Board for Financing Water Projects

1-5  created pursuant to NRS 349.957.

1-6  2.  “Community sewage disposal system” means a public

1-7  system of sewage disposal which is operated for the benefit of a

1-8  county, city, district or other political subdivision of this state.

1-9  3.  “Community water system” means a public water system

1-10  which:

2-1  (a) Has 15 or more service connections; or

2-2  (b) Serves 25 or more persons,

2-3  at places which are intended for year-round occupancy.

2-4  [3.] 4.  “Costs of capital improvements to community water

2-5  systems and nontransient water systems” means the costs

2-6  traditionally associated with capital improvements to such systems

2-7  and includes costs associated with the:

2-8  (a) Consolidation of existing systems; and

2-9  (b) Transfer and connection of a public water system to a system

2-10  owned by a purveyor of water or a public utility.

2-11      [4.] 5.  “Division of Environmental Protection” means the

2-12  Division of Environmental Protection of the State Department of

2-13  Conservation and Natural Resources.

2-14      6.  “Fund” means the Fund for Grants for Water Conservation ,

2-15  [and] Capital Improvements to Certain Water Systems[.

2-16      5.] and Improvements to Certain Sewage Disposal Systems.

2-17      7.  “Individual sewage disposal system” means a single system

2-18  of sewage treatment tanks and effluent disposal facilities that

2-19  serves:

2-20      (a) A single-family dwelling; or

2-21      (b) One or more buildings that are used exclusively for

2-22  commercial purposes and are not used as single-family dwellings.

2-23      8.  “Nontransient water system” means a public water system

2-24  that regularly serves 25 or more of the same persons for more than 6

2-25  months per year, but which is not a community water system.

2-26      [6.] 9.  “Public water system” has the meaning ascribed to it in

2-27  NRS 445A.840.

2-28      [7.] 10.  “Purveyor of water” means a political subdivision of

2-29  this state engaged in the business of furnishing water, for

2-30  compensation, to persons within the political subdivision.

2-31      Sec. 2.  NRS 349.981 is hereby amended to read as follows:

2-32      349.981  1.  There is hereby established a program to provide

2-33  grants of money to:

2-34      (a) A purveyor of water to pay for costs of capital improvements

2-35  to publicly owned community water systems and publicly owned

2-36  nontransient water systems required or made necessary by the State

2-37  Board of Health pursuant to NRS 445A.800 to 445A.955, inclusive,

2-38  or made necessary by the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. §§

2-39  300f et seq., and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto.

2-40      (b) An eligible recipient to pay for the cost of improvements to

2-41  conserve water, including, without limitation:

2-42          (1) Piping or lining of an irrigation canal;

2-43          (2) Recovery or recycling of wastewater or tailwater;

2-44          (3) Scheduling of irrigation;

2-45          (4) Measurement or metering of the use of water;

3-1       (5) Improving the efficiency of irrigation operations; and

3-2       (6) Improving the efficiency of the operation of a facility for

3-3  the storage of water, including, without limitation, efficiency in

3-4  diverting water to such a facility.

3-5  (c) An eligible recipient, to pay the following costs associated

3-6  with connecting a domestic well or well with a temporary permit to

3-7  a municipal water system, if the well was in existence on or before

3-8  October 1, 1999, and the well is located in an area designated by the

3-9  State Engineer pursuant to NRS 534.120 as an area where the

3-10  ground water basin is being depleted:

3-11          (1) Any local or regional fee for connection to the municipal

3-12  water system.

3-13          (2) The cost of any capital improvement that is required to

3-14  comply with a decision or regulation of the State Engineer.

3-15      (d) An eligible recipient, to pay the following costs associated

3-16  with abandoning an individual sewage disposal system and

3-17  connecting the property formerly served by the abandoned

3-18  individual sewage disposal system to a community sewage disposal

3-19  system, if the Division of Environmental Protection requires the

3-20  individual sewage disposal system to be abandoned and the

3-21  property upon which the individual sewage disposal system was

3-22  located to be connected to a community sewage disposal system

3-23  pursuant to the provisions of NRS 445A.300 to 445A.730,

3-24  inclusive, or any regulations adopted pursuant thereto:

3-25          (1) Any local or regional fee for connection to the

3-26  community sewage disposal system.

3-27          (2) The cost of any capital improvement that is required to

3-28  comply with a statute of this state or a decision, directive, order or

3-29  regulation of the Division of Environmental Protection.

3-30      2.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 349.983, the

3-31  determination of who is to receive a grant is solely within the

3-32  discretion of the Board.

3-33      3.  As used in this section, “eligible recipient” means a political

3-34  subdivision of this state, including, without limitation, a city,

3-35  county, unincorporated town, water authority, conservation district,

3-36  irrigation district, water district or water conservancy district.

3-37      Sec. 3.  NRS 349.984 is hereby amended to read as follows:

3-38      349.984  1.  The Fund for Grants for Water Conservation ,

3-39  [and] Capital Improvements to Certain Water Systems and

3-40  Improvements to Certain Sewage Disposal Systems is hereby

3-41  created.

3-42      2.  Except as otherwise provided by subsections 3 and 4 of NRS

3-43  349.982, the money in the Fund must be used only to make grants in

3-44  furtherance of the program.

4-1  3.  All claims against the Fund must be paid as other claims

4-2  against the State are paid.

4-3  Sec. 4.  NRS 349.986 is hereby amended to read as follows:

4-4  349.986  The State Board of Finance shall issue general

4-5  obligation bonds of the State of Nevada in the face amount of not

4-6  more than [$69,000,000] $73,000,000 to support the purposes of the

4-7  program. The net proceeds from the sale of the bonds must be

4-8  deposited in the Fund. The bonds must be redeemed through the

4-9  Consolidated Bond Interest and Redemption Fund.

4-10      Sec. 5.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2003.

 

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