§ 40:2823 — Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund Program

§2823. Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund Program
A. There is established a Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund
Program within the Louisiana Department of Health, office of public health,
through which the state may provide financial assistance, to the extent
provided by state law, to both publicly and privately owned community water
systems and to nonprofit non-community water systems for projects eligible
for assistance under this Chapter. The program shall be administered in
accordance with this Chapter and the federal act.
B. The Louisiana Department of Health, office of public health, may
promulgate rules and regulations as are necessary to implement the provisions
of this Chapter, in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act,
provided such rules and regulations shall not take effect unless approved by
the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee and the Senate
Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee.
C.(1) The Louisiana Department of Health, office of public health, may
enter into a capitalization grant agreement with the United States
Environmental Protection Agency to implement the Drinking Water Revolving
Loan Fund Program and may accept from that agency any grants and loans
necessary for its operation.
(2) In entering into the agreement, the secretary of the Louisiana
Department of Health may commit the state to:
(a) Accept grant payments from the United States Environmental
Protection Agency in accordance with the schedule established in the
capitalization grant agreement, and deposit same into the Drinking Water
Revolving Loan Fund, with the exception of any set-aside amounts authorized
under the federal act.
(b) Deposit state matching funds, to the extent required by the federal
act for receipt of federal grant funds, into the Drinking Water Revolving Loan
Fund on or before the date that each federal grant payment is made to the state.
(c) Enter into any other covenants, commitments, and obligations
necessary to ensure that the state's administration of the program is consistent
with the provisions of this Chapter and the federal act.

Legislative History

Acts 1997, No. 480, §2, eff. June 30, 1997.