N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 27-1101: Definitions

§ 27-1101. Definitions.

As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires:

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

political subdivision, government agency, industry, partnership,

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

2. "Corporation" means the New York state environmental facilities

corporation.

3. "Board" means a facility siting board constituted pursuant to the

provisions of section 27-1105 of this title.

4. "Industrial hazardous waste" shall mean an industrial waste or

combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or

physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may:

a. Cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in serious

irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness; and/or

b. Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or

the environment and, therefore, must be segregated and excluded from the

general municipal waste system and sewage collection and treatment

process.

5. "Industrial hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal

facility" shall mean a specialized facility or site other than a

low-level radioactive waste management facility subject to the

provisions of article twenty-nine of this chapter, or a sewage treatment

facility for the purpose of treating, storing, compacting, recycling,

exchanging, or disposing of industrial hazardous waste materials,

including treatment, compacting, resource recovery or disposal plants,

equipment and furnishings thereof used for the storage, treatment,

compacting, composting, shredding, coverting, utilization, processing,

or final disposal of hazardous waste, including but not limited to

mechanical, chemical or thermal processing systems, incinerators,

sanitary landfills, other facilities for the storage, reduction or

conversion of hazardous waste, including but not limited to transfer

stations, baling facilities, railroad and maritime facilities, motor

trucks or vehicles and appurtenances, furnishings, equipment and

machinery deemed necessary thereto.

6. "Municipality" means any town, city, county or village.

7. "Treatment" means any method, technique, or process including

neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological

character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to neutralize such

waste or as to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport,

amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume.

8. "Storage" means the containment of hazardous waste, either on a

temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to

constitute disposal of such hazardous waste.

9. "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.

10. "Environment" means any water, water vapor, any land including

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

natural resources.

11. "Preferred hazardous waste management practices hierarchy" shall

mean that policy established in section 27-0105 of this article.