5E Relating to the environment; modifying provisions for cost sharing contracts for erosion control and water management; creating the "Clean Water Legacy Act"; providing for the protection, restoration and preservation of 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; specifying certain implementation goals and policies; requiring the pollution control agency (PCA) to set priorities for identifying impaired waters and the clean water council to recommend priorities for scheduling and preparing total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) 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; requiring the PCA to comply with submittal requirements such as notice and content information; establishing a clean water council for administration and implementation advice purposes, specifying certain membership requirements and duties, requiring the governor in making appointments to attempt to provide for geographic balance and subjecting the appointments to senate confirmation, requiring council 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 water legacy account in the environmental fund and specifying certain authorized uses; instructing the PCA to regulate nutrient loading in impaired water when necessary, modifying project financial assistance eligibility requirements; expanding total maximum daily load grants to stormwater projects; requiring and providing for the public facilities authority to establish a clean water legacy 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 account for loans to governmental units for projects to replace noncomplying individual sewage treatment systems (ISTSs) with community wastewater treatment systems meeting ISTS requirements, specifying certain project proposal and loan application and award requirements, authorizing deferment of local special assessments to repay the loans; delaying the effective date of a PCA adopted rule changing the limits on phosphorus discharges, requiring the PCA to report to the legislature by a certain day before new rule is in effect
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