TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 81

BASIN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT ACT

39-8103.  Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

(1)  "Administrator" means the administrator or a member of the board of administrators of the basin environmental improvement fund and financing authority.

(2)  "Basin" means the watershed of Coeur d’Alene Lake within the counties of Shoshone, Kootenai and Benewah in the state of Idaho.

(3)  "Basin environmental improvement fund and financing authority" or "financing authority" means the entity established by the authority of this chapter, and agreements, compacts, reciprocal legislation or resolutions with or by the United States of America, the Coeur d’Alene tribe or the state of Washington to accept and invest funds and finance the activities of the basin project.

(4)  "Basin environmental improvement project" or "basin project" means the environmental and natural resources restoration and related measures regarding heavy metal contamination in the basin undertaken by the commission.

(5)  "Basin environmental improvement project commission" or "commission" means the entity organized by the authority of this chapter and agreements, compacts, reciprocal legislation or resolutions with or by the United States of America, the Coeur d’Alene tribe or the state of Washington to implement the basin project.

(6)  "Board of administrators" or "administrators" means the administrator or board of administrators of the basin environmental improvement fund and financing authority.

(7)  "Board of commissioners" or "commission" means the board of commissioners of the basin environmental improvement project commission.

(8)  "Bonds" or "notes" or "bond anticipation notes" or "other obligations" means any bonds, notes, debentures, interim certificates or other evidence of financial indebtedness issued by the financing authority pursuant to this chapter.

(9)  "Commissioner" means a member of the board of commissioners of the basin environmental improvement project commission.

(10) "Executive director" means the executive director of the basin environmental improvement project commission.

History:

[39-8103, added 2001, ch. 371, sec. 2, p. 1298.]