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1998 Rhode Island Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1998)

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DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL
150 South Main Street, Providence, RI 02903
(401)274-4400
TDD-453-0410
Jeffrey B. Pine, Attorney General
July 27, 1998
Official Opinion No. 98-01
Mr. John P. Devillars
Regional Administrator
United States Environmental
Protection Agency
Region I
John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building
Boston, MA 02203
RE: Application for Capitalization Grant Pursuant
to Title VI of the Clean Water Act
Dear Mr. Devillars:
I am writing this letter pursuant to the requirement of
the Interim Rule of the Environmental Protection Agency
contained in 40 CFR 35.3110(d)(2) requiring that the Attorney
General certify that the state legislation establishing the
state revolving loan fund (the SRF) to receive federal
capitalization grants pursuant to Title VI of The Clean Water
Act and the powers it confers are consistent with state law and
that the state may legally bind itself to the terms of the
capitalization grant agreement. Legislation authorizing the
establishment of a state SRF was adopted at the 1989 session of
the Rhode Island General Assembly and is codified as Chapter
12.2 of Title 46 of the General Laws of Rhode Island, as
amended.
Section 46-12.2-3 of the legislation establishes the Rhode
Island Clean Water Finance Agency (the Agency) as a body
politic and corporate and public instrumentality of the state
and provides that the exercise by the Agency of the powers
conferred by Chapter 46-12.2 shall be deemed to be the
performance of an essential public function. Section
46-12.2-4(a)(12) grants to the Agency the power to enter into

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