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REFERENCE TITLE:
water provider; definition; conservation district
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
HB 2054
Introduced by
Representatives
Griffin: Lopez
AN
ACT
Amending section 49-1201, Arizona
Revised Statutes; relating to the Water Infrastructure finance program.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 49-1201, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:
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49-1201.
Definitions
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Authority" means the water
infrastructure finance authority of Arizona.
2. "Board" means the water infrastructure
finance authority board established by section 49-1206.
3. "Bonds of a political subdivision"
means bonds issued by a political subdivision as authorized by law.
4. "Clean water act" means the federal
water pollution control act amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-500; 86 Stat.
816), as amended by the water quality act of 1987 (P.L. 100-4; 101 Stat.
7).
5. "Concession agreement" means any lease,
ground lease, franchise, easement, permit or other binding agreement
transferring rights for the use or control, in whole or in part, of
water-related facilities by the authority to a private partner in accordance
with this chapter.
6. "Drinking water facility":
(a) Means a community water system or a nonprofit
noncommunity water system as defined in the safe drinking water act of 1974
(P.L. 93-523; 88 Stat. 1660; P.L. 95-190; 91 Stat. 1393; P.L.
104-182; 110 Stat. 1613) that is located in this state.
(b) Does not include water systems owned by federal
agencies.
7. "Financial assistance loan repayment
agreement" means an agreement to repay a loan provided to design,
construct, acquire, rehabilitate or improve water or wastewater infrastructure,
related property and appurtenances or a loan provided to finance a water supply
development project.
8. "Imported water" means any water that
originates outside of this state and that is made available to water users
within this state by conveyance or exchange or otherwise through projects that
are funded or financed in whole or in part with monies from the long-term water
augmentation fund.
9. "Import water" means to make water
originating outside of this state available to water users within this state by
conveyance or exchange or otherwise through projects that are funded or
financed in whole or in part with monies from the long-term water augmentation
fund.
10. "Indian tribe" means any Indian tribe,
band, group or community that is recognized by the United States secretary of
the interior and that exercises governmental authority within the limits of any
Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States government,
notwithstanding the issuance of any patent and including rights-of-way
running through the reservation.
11. "Long-term water augmentation bonds"
means bonds that are issued by the authority in accordance with article 4 of
this chapter.
12. "Long-term water augmentation fund"
means the fund established by section 49-1302.
13. "Nonpoint source project" means a
project designed to implement a certified water quality management plan.
14. "Political
subdivision" means a county, city, town or special taxing district
authorized by law to construct wastewater treatment facilities, drinking water
facilities or nonpoint source projects.
15. "Private partner" means a person,
entity or organization that is not the federal government, this state or a
political subdivision of this state.
16. "Public-private partnership project"
means any water supply development project that is the subject of a
public-private partnership agreement in accordance with this chapter.
17. "Safe drinking
water act" means the federal safe drinking water act of 1974 (P.L. 93-523;
88 Stat. 1660; P.L. 95-190; 91 Stat. 1393; P.L. 104-182; 110
Stat. 1613), as amended in 1996.
18. "Technical
assistance loan repayment agreement" means either of the following:
(a) An agreement to repay a loan provided to
develop, plan and design water or wastewater infrastructure, related property
and appurtenances.� The agreement shall be for a term of not more than three
years and the maximum amount that may be borrowed is limited to not more than
$500,000.
(b) An agreement to repay a loan provided to
develop, plan or design a water supply development project.
19. "Wastewater treatment facility" means
a treatment works, as defined in section 212 of the clean water act, that is
located in this state and that is designed to hold, cleanse or purify or to
prevent the discharge of untreated or inadequately treated sewage or other
polluted waters
for purposes of complying
to
comply
with the clean water act.
20. "Water provider" means any of the
following:
(a) A municipal water delivery system as defined in
section 42-5301.
(b) A county water augmentation authority
established under title 45, chapter 11.
(c) A county water authority established under title
45, chapter 13.
(d) An Indian tribe.
(e) A community facilities district as established
by title 48, chapter 4.
(f) A public water system as prescribed in section
49-352.
(g) A county with a population of less than three
hundred thousand persons.
(h) A natural resource conservation district.
(
i
) For
replenishment purposes prescribed in title 48, chapter 22, article 4, a multi-county
water conservation district.
(i)
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)
For
the
purposes of funding
from the water supply development revolving fund pursuant to article 3 of this
chapter only, a county that enters into an intergovernmental agreement or other
formal written agreement with a city, town or other water provider regarding a
water supply development project.
21. "Water-related facilities" means
any facility related to the production, delivery, conservation or storage of
water, including any canals, pipelines, desalination plants, pumping stations,
storage projects, recovery wells, delivery and retention projects, water and
wastewater treatment plants, and other equipment and facilities installed for
water conservation purposes, together with any land, buildings or other
improvements and equipment or personal property related thereto.
22. "Water supply development" means any
of the following:
(a) Acquiring water or rights to or contracts for
water to augment the water supply of a water provider, including any
environmental or other reviews, permits or plans reasonably necessary for that
acquisition.
(b) Planning, designing, building or developing
water-related facilities, including any environmental or other reviews, permits
or plans reasonably necessary for those facilities, for any of the following
purposes:
(i) Conveyance or delivery of water.
(ii) Storage or recovery of water under title 45,
chapter 3.1.
(iii) Reclamation, remediation and reuse of water,
including by a reclamation or remediation project that is approved by the
United States environmental protection agency and that increases the
availability of water.
(iv) Replenishment of groundwater.
(v) Active or passive stormwater recharge structures
that increase water supplies.
(c) Conservation through reducing existing water use
or more efficient uses of existing water supplies.
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