N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 37-0301: Definitions

§ 37-0301. Definitions.

As used in this title, the following terms shall have the following

meanings:

1. "Facility" means all buildings, equipment, structures, and other

stationary items located on a single site or adjacent sites and owned or

operated by the same person (or by any person who controls, is

controlled by, or is under common control with, such person).

2. "State agency" means:

(a) each state department;

(b) division of military and naval affairs, division of state police,

division of housing and community renewal, division for youth, office of

general services, office of parks, recreation and historic preservation,

and state university of New York;

(c) any division, board, commission, office, or bureau of any state

department which is required to obtain a permit issued by the department

or which undertakes an activity for which it must register with the

department; and

(d) dormitory authority of the state of New York, facilities

development corporation, metropolitan transportation authority

(including the operations of all of its operating units), New York state

energy research and development authority, New York state environmental

facilities corporation, New York state olympic regional development

authority, New York state thruway authority, New York state urban

development corporation, port authority of New York and New Jersey, and

power authority of the state of New York.

3. The term "manufacture" means to produce, prepare, import, or

compound a toxic chemical.

4. The term "process" means the preparation of a toxic chemical, after

its manufacture, for distribution in commerce in the same form or

physical state as, or in a different form or physical state from, that

in which it was received by the person so preparing such chemical, or as

part of an article containing the toxic chemical.

5. The term "release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,

emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping,

or disposing into the environment (including the abandonment or

discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles) of any

hazardous chemical, extremely hazardous substance, or toxic chemical.

6. The term "toxic chemical" means a substance on the list described

in 42 U.S.C. § 11023(c).