Section 501.20  Definitions

"Agency" means the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.

"Authorized Expenses" means the actual expenditures of public funds by a grantee attributable to implementation of the Act as determined necessary by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency .

            "Claim" means the forms used by grantee to document expenditures.

"Drill" means the test or trial of a particular emergency preparedness system, function or operation, such as communications.

"Employee" means an individual actually paid wages or allowances by a grantee for work performed on a full-time, part-time or intermittent basis.

"Exercise" means the testing of emergency response plans for nuclear facilities, including, but not limited to, the biennial testing and evaluation of off-site radiological emergency response plans and preparedness in support of nuclear generating stations, as required by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 10 CFR 50, appendix E, current as of January 1, 1996.

"Grantee" means a local governmental entity receiving a grant.

"Local Government" means a political subdivision below the State Government level, such as a county, municipality, township, village or district, with authority to expend public funds.

"Volunteer" means an individual paid an allowance, set forth by grantee resolution, for work performed on an intermittent basis.

(Source:  Amended at 33 Ill. Reg. 9110, effective June 11, 2009)