N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 27-0303: Definitions

§ 27-0303. Definitions.

When used in this title:

1. "Disposal" means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection,

dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any substance so that such

substance or any related constituent thereof may enter the environment.

Disposal also means the thermal destruction of waste or hazardous waste

and the burning of such wastes as fuel for the purpose of recovering

useable energy.

2. "Industrial-commercial waste" means a waste which originates at, is

generated by, or occurs as a result of any industrial or commercial

activity. The forms of waste included are exemplified by but not limited

to the following:

a. liquids such as: acids, alkalis, caustics, leachate, petroleum (and

its derivatives), and process or treatment wastewaters;

b. sludges which are semisolid substances resulting from process or

treatment operations, or residues from storage or use of liquids;

c. solids such as: solidified chemicals, paints or pigments; the end

or by-products of incineration ash; foundry sand; dredge spoil;

d. contained gaseous materials;

e. hazardous waste as defined in title 9 of this article; and

f. any liquid, sludge, septage, solid, semisolid substance or

contained gaseous material in which any of the foregoing is intermixed

or absorbed, or onto which any of the foregoing is adhered.

3. "Person" means any individual, public or private corporation,

political subdivision, government agency, department or bureau of the

state or federal government, municipality, industry, co-partnership,

association, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity.

4. "Regulated waste" means any one of the following types of waste:

raw sewage, septage, sludge from a sewage or water supply treatment

plant, industrial-commercial waste, low-level radioactive waste as

defined in subdivision nine of this section, waste tires or waste oil.

5. "Septage" means the contents of a septic tank, cesspool or other

individual sewage treatment facility which receives domestic sewage

wastes.

6. "Storage" means the holding of waste for a temporary period, at the

end of which the waste is processed, recovered, disposed of, or stored

elsewhere.

7. "Waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment

plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility,

and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or

contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining

and agricultural operations and from community activities, but does not

include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or

dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges

which are point sources subject to permits under article 17 of this

chapter, or source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined in

the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 923) except as may

be provided by existing agreements between the state and the federal

government.

8. "Waste oil" means used engine lubricating oil and any other oil,

including but not limited to, fuel oil, motor oil, gear oil, cutting

oil, transmission fluid, hydraulic fluid, dielectric fluid, oil storage

tank residue, animal oil, and vegetable oil, which has been contaminated

by physical or chemical impurities, through use or accident, and has not

subsequently been rerefined.

* 9. "Low-level radioactive waste" means radioactive material that:

a. is not high-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent

nuclear fuel, or the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or

concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for

its source material content; and

b. the United States nuclear regulatory commission, consistent with

federal law and in accordance with paragraph a of this subdivision,

classifies as low-level radioactive waste.

* NB There are 2 sb 9's

* 9. "Environment" means any water, water vapor, any land including

land surface or subsurface, air, fish, wildlife, biota and all other

natural resources.

* NB There are 2 sb 9's

11. "Regulated medical waste" shall have the same meaning as such term

is defined in title 15 of this article.

12. "Waste tires" shall mean waste tires transported for a fee for the

purpose of reuse, recycling or disposal, except those tires collected

and transported incidental to the collection and transportation of solid

waste.