Water quality enhancement, water supply, sewage, and solid waste facilities grants
- (a) [Repealed, § 19 ch 220 SLA 1976.]
(b) The department may grant to a municipality, as funds are available, a grant for any of the following:
- (1) a water quality enhancement project;
- (2) a public water supply, treatment, or distribution system;
- (3) a wastewater collection, treatment, or discharge system;
- (4) a solid waste processing, disposal, or resource recovery system.
- (c) There is a water quality enhancement and water supply, wastewater, and solid waste systems program created in the department to carry out the purposes of this section.
- (d) The department shall, by regulation, identify those costs that are eligible costs for the purposes of this section. Eligible costs do not include interest and financing and right-of-way acquisition, or costs that are related to the operation, maintenance, or repair of a system.
(e) A grant under this section to a municipality for a project funded by an appropriation made by the legislature
- (1) before July 1, 1994, may not exceed 50 percent of the eligible costs of the project;
(2) after July 1, 1994, may not exceed
- (A) 85 percent of the eligible costs for a municipality with a population of 1,000 persons or less;
- (B) 70 percent of the eligible costs for a municipality with a population of 1,001 to 10,000 persons; and
- (C) 60 percent of the eligible costs for a municipality with a population greater than 10,000 persons.
- (f) [Repealed, § 14 ch 106 SLA 1994.]
(g) The match required for grants made under this section may include
- (1) federal funds; or
- (2) state funds, other than those funds received under this section or AS 37.06.
- (h) Construction of a project for which a grant is made under this section may commence only after the department has approved in writing the plans and specifications for the project.