New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 20 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 7 - WASTEWATER AND WATER SUPPLY FACILITIES
Part 6 - WASTEWATER FACILITY CONSTRUCTION LOAN POLICIES AND GUIDELINES
Section 20.7.6.8 - BACKGROUND

The Department of Environment Act, Section 9-7A-6.D, NMSA 1978, provides authority to the secretary of environment to make and adopt reasonable and procedural rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the duties of the department and its division. The authority for the New Mexico environment department to provide loans to eligible applicants for the construction of wastewater facilities is provided in Sections 74-6A-1 to 15 NMSA 1978, Wastewater Facility Construction Loan Act and in Sections 74-6-1 to 17 NMSA 1978, the New Mexico Water Quality Act. The water quality control commission adopted regulations pursuant to the Wastewater Facility Construction Loan Act which establish a program to provide financial assistance to state agencies, local authorities, interstate agencies, and other qualified borrowers for the acquisition, construction, or modification of wastewater facilities or other eligible projects or activities. Title VI of the Federal Clean Water Act, as amended, authorizes the U.S. environmental protection agency (EPA) to make capitalization grants to states for deposit in the wastewater facility construction loan fund (state revolving fund - SRF). "Final Initial Guidance - State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund" was published by EPA on January 28, 1988, which represents EPA's approach to implementation of Title VI. EPA updated its approach to implementation of Title VI with the "Interpretive Guidance for Certain Amendments in the Water Resources Reform and Development Act to Titles I, II, V, and VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act" published on January 6, 2015.