Section 125.03. Eligibility for a state grant.

 

(1)   Eligible projects.

(a) The department may award grants to municipalities for small improvement projects for existing sewage treatment facilities.

(b) After June 30, 1988, and before July 1, 1990, the department may award grants to municipalities for compliance maintenance planning.

(2)   Ineligible projects. Grants shall not be made for the following projects:

(a) Sewers to carry only industrial wastes.

(b) Projects to construct new sanitary sewers, to replace existing sewers or to increase the capacity of an existing sanitary sewer collection system.

(c) Construction of any part of a storm sewer system or storm water treatment facilities.

(d) A project to repair or replace existing components or devices which are part of a pollution prevention and abatement facility and which are needed to maintain the degree of treatment or flows for which the facility was designed prior to when the service life has been exceeded and when it is more cost effective to replace the entire plant than to repair parts of it.

(e) Projects not in conformance with the applicable waste treatment management plans approved by the department.

(f) A project on which the municipality has awarded contracts or on which force account construction has commenced prior to approval by the department of the final detailed construction plans and specifications.

(g) Maintenance, administrative, operational and garage facilities for sewer systems.

(h) A project not competitively bid in accordance with chs. 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 and 66 , Stats.

(i) The laterals (both pressure and gravity) from the public street property line to the building.

(j) A project that receives a Step III construction grant under P.L. 92-500 as amended.

History: Cr. Register, July, 1976, No. 247 , eff. 8-1-76; cr. (2) (k), Register, October, 1976, No. 250 , eff. 11-1-76; r. (1), am. (2) (b) and (c), r. (2) (g), renum. (2) (h) to (k) to be (2) (g) to (j), Register, April, 1989, No. 400 , eff. 5-1-89.