Washington Administrative Code
Title 365 - Commerce, Department of (Community Development)
Chapter 365-180 - Energy matchmakers
Section 365-180-030 - Definitions

(1) "Community" means the local program area served by the weatherizing agency.

(2) "Department" means the department of commerce.

(3) "Disadvantaged populations" means populations facing barriers to employment.

(4) "Energy matchmakers local coordinated plan" means a proposal(s) for use of funding for local low-income weatherization programs in a specific geographical area.

(5) "Family wage job" is defined as a job that pays, as a minimum, prevailing wage.

(6) "Low-income" means households at or below eighty percent of the state area median income. However, priority will be given to households at or below one hundred twenty-five percent of the federally established poverty level.

(7) "Nonutility sponsor" means an organization that is not an energy supplier and that submits a local coordinated plan.

(8) "Residence" means a house, including a stationary mobile home, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied as separate living quarters; but excluding institutional buildings such as: A university, group care facility, nursing home, half-way residence, hospital, hotel, motel, etc.

(9) "Sponsor" means an organization that submits a match proposal as part of the energy matchmakers local coordinated plan.

(10) "Sponsor match" means the share, if any, of the cost of weatherization to be paid by the sponsor.

(11) "Weatherization" means materials or measures, including the education of the low-income household about energy saving behaviors in the home, and their installation or application, that are used to improve the thermal efficiency of a residence.

(12) "Weatherizing agency" means a public or nonprofit private organization, approved by the department, responsible for doing all aspects of the weatherization work.