N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 27-0501: Definitions

§ 27-0501. Definitions.

1. "Collection system development program" means a comprehensive

review of existing solid waste collection practices and the development

of designs for efficient and cost-effective systems for the systematic

collection of solid waste of one or more municipalities or any portion

thereof.

2. "Preparation of contract documents" means the preparation of

documents for entering into contracts for (a) the design, construction,

operation, financing, ownership or maintenance of a solid waste

management facility; (b) a system of collection and disposal of

municipal solid waste through resource recovery; and (c) the marketing

of materials and energy recovered from solid waste. Such documents may

include detailed construction plans and specifications, bid

advertisements, requests for proposals and reports evaluating bids and

proposals.

3. "Implementation feasibility project" means the investigation and

evaluation of any one or more of the following: engineering, economic,

environmental, technological, administrative, institutional, social and

political factors affecting the acceptability of a solid waste

management facility or system of which the facility is part for the

purpose of determining the feasibility of constructing such proposed

facility or establishing such system.

4. "Municipality" means a village, town, city or county or any

designated agency thereof, or any two or more of the foregoing which are

acting jointly in connection with a solid waste management facility, a

solid waste management district, or a public benefit corporation having

power granted otherwise than under this article to construct, operate

and maintain a solid waste management facility, including a public

corporation created pursuant to agreement or compact with another state.

5. "Recycling center" means a community-based facility where separated

solid waste can be stored, assembled and prepared for sale or other

disposition.

6. "Resource recovery" means the separation, extraction and recovery

of useable materials, energy or heat from solid waste through source

separation, recycling centers or other programs, projects or facilities.

7. "Solid waste" means all materials or substances discarded or

rejected as being spent, useless, worthless, or in excess to the owners

at the time of such discard or rejection, including but not limited to

garbage, refuse, industrial and commercial waste, sludges from air or

water pollution control facilities or water supply treatment facilities,

rubbish, ashes, contained gaseous material, incinerator residue,

demolition and construction debris and offal, but not including sewage

and other highly diluted water-carried materials or substances and those

in gaseous form.

8. "Solid waste management facility" means any facility employed

beyond the initial solid waste collection process, including but not

limited to recycling centers, transfer stations, baling facilities, rail

haul or barge haul facilities, processing systems, including resource

recovery facilities or other facilities for reducing solid waste volume,

sanitary landfills, plants and facilities for compacting, composting or

pyrolization of solid waste, incinerators and other solid waste

disposal, reduction or conversion facilities.

9. "Source separation" means the segregation of recyclable materials

from the solid waste stream at the point of generation for separate

collection, sale or other disposition.

10. "Secondary materials" means those commodities that have been

reclaimed for reuse and are used in place of a primary or raw material

in manufacturing a product.