- (1) "Community" means the local program area served by the weatherizing agency.
- (2) "Department" means the department of commerce.
- (3) "Disadvantaged populations" means populations facing barriers to employment.
- (4) "Energy matchmakers local coordinated plan" means a proposal(s) for use of funding for local low-income weatherization programs in a specific geographical area.
- (5) "Family wage job" is defined as a job that pays, as a minimum, prevailing wage.
- (6) "Low-income" means households at or below eighty percent of the state area median income. However, priority will be given to households at or below one hundred twenty-five percent of the federally established poverty level.
- (7) "Nonutility sponsor" means an organization that is not an energy supplier and that submits a local coordinated plan.
- (8) "Residence" means a house, including a stationary mobile home, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied as separate living quarters; but excluding institutional buildings such as: A university, group care facility, nursing home, half-way residence, hospital, hotel, motel, etc.
- (9) "Sponsor" means an organization that submits a match proposal as part of the energy matchmakers local coordinated plan.
- (10) "Sponsor match" means the share, if any, of the cost of weatherization to be paid by the sponsor.
- (11) "Weatherization" means materials or measures, including the education of the low-income household about energy saving behaviors in the home, and their installation or application, that are used to improve the thermal efficiency of a residence.
- (12) "Weatherizing agency" means a public or nonprofit private organization, approved by the department, responsible for doing all aspects of the weatherization work.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 70.164.040. WSR 09-22-065, § 365-180-030, filed 11/2/09, effective 12/3/09. Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.164 RCW. WSR 92-03-019 (Order 92-01), § 365-180-030, filed 1/7/92, effective 2/7/92. Statutory Authority: 1987 c 36. WSR 88-02-042 (Order 88-01), § 365-180-030, filed 1/4/88.]