In order to comply with the requirements of federal and state laws, the Department of Environmental Quality and the Oklahoma Water Resources Board shall enter into a written joint operating agreement to carry out with efficiency their respective duties under this act. At a minimum, the agreement shall provide for the following:

1. Joint procedures consistent with this act to establish criteria for determining the interest rates on loans to be made from the Drinking Water Treatment Revolving Loan Account. Such criteria may incorporate applicable United States Environmental Protection Agency and Rural Development Administration guidelines for financial assistance; and

2. Submission of an annual joint report by the Department and the Board to the Governor and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate within one hundred twenty (120) days of the end of each fiscal year concerning the Drinking Water Treatment Revolving Loan Account and implementation of the provisions of this act. The report shall contain information to show the actual use and the recipients of loans made from the Drinking Water Treatment Revolving Loan Account. In addition, the report shall contain five-year demand projections on anticipated loan funds required and ten-year and twenty-year projections as to possible funding needs for drinking water treatment projects which may be eligible for financial assistance pursuant to this act.

Added by Laws 1994, c. 191, § 12, eff. July 1, 1994. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 186, § 4, emerg. eff. May 15, 1997.