For the purposes of Sections 49-17-81 through 49-17-89, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed in this section:
"Administrator" means the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
"Commission" means the Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality.
"Department" means the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.
"Emergency fund" means the "Water Pollution Control Emergency Loan Fund" created under Section 49-17-86.
"Loan agreement" means an agreement by and among the commission, a political subdivision and the State Tax Commission to evidence the terms and provisions of a loan under Sections 49-17-81 through 49-17-89.
"Loan fund" means the Water Pollution Abatement Loan Fund created pursuant to Section 49-17-61.
"Municipal security" means a bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness issued by a political subdivision to evidence a loan pursuant to the provisions of Sections 49-17-81 through 49-17-89.
"Political subdivision" means any county, municipality, utility, district, political subdivision, or other governmental unit created under state law.
"Project" means a publicly owned wastewater collection, treatment or disposal system including sludge disposal, renovation, repair and upgrading of existing systems, nonpoint source pollution control management programs and estuary conservation and management programs, and otherwise qualified under rules of the commission pursuant to the federal Water Quality Act of 1987.
"Revolving fund" means the Mississippi Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund created under Section 49-17-85.
"State" means the State of Mississippi.