"Clean Waters Act"; providing authority, direction and funding to achieve and maintain the quality of surface waters in the state to conform to certain federal requirements; defining certain terms; specifying certain coordination and cooperation requirements of public agencies responsible for local water management, conservation, land use and management and development plans and programs; specifying certain implementation goals and policies; requiring the pollution control agency to set priorities for identifying impaired waters and the clean water council to recommend priorities for scheduling and preparing total maximum daily loads and priorities for restoration of impaired waters, specifying certain consideration requirements; specifying certain administrative duties of the PCA relating to development and approval of TMDLs; establishing a clean water council for administration and implementation advice purposes, specifying certain membership requirements and duties, requiring biennial reports to the legislature; providing for public and stakeholder participation in the identification and restoration of impaired waters; requiring council use of certain scientific expertise and development of strategies to inform, educate and encourage participation; creating the clean waters account in the environmental fund for deposit of certain civil penalty receipts, providing an annual appropriation from the account to the PCA to provide grants, loans and technical assistance to public agencies participating in the identification of impaired waters, to support measures or efforts to improve water quality and to provide funds to state agencies to carry out certain responsibilities; imposing civil penalties on persons causing pollution of impaired waters, exceptions; requiring and providing for the public facilities authority to establish a clean waters capital improvement fund for grants to governmental units for the capital costs of wastewater treatment facility projects to reduce the discharge of total phosphorus, specifying certain project eligibility requirements, eligible costs and grant amounts and priorities, authorizing the authority to charge grant recipients a fee for administrative costs, limit; requiring the authority to establish a small community wastewater treatment fund for loans to governmental units for projects to replace noncomplying ISTSs, specifying certain project proposal and loan application and award requirements, authorizing deferment of local special assessments to repay the loans; appropriating money to the public facilities authority and authorizing the issuance of state bonds for deposit in the clean waters capital improvement and small community wastewater treatment funds for grants and loans respectively and for deposit in the water pollution control revolving fund for wastewater treatment and storm water projects
(je)