N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 51-0903: Definitions

§ 51-0903. Definitions.

As used in this title, the following terms shall mean and include:

1. "Solid Waste." 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 materials, 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.

2. "Solid Waste Recovery and Management Project." Resource recovery

equipment, source separation equipment, disposal equipment or any

combination thereof required by a solid waste recovery and management

system.

3. "Solid Waste Recovery and Management System." A municipal program

to provide environmentally sound recovery or disposal of collected solid

waste through facilities planned, designed, assembled and constructed to

assure environmental protection and to maximize the potential for

resource recovery.

4. "Resource Recovery Equipment." Structures, machinery, or devices,

singly or in combination, designed, constructed and required to

separate, process, modify, convert, treat, or prepare collected solid

waste so that component materials or substances or recoverable resources

may be used as a raw material or for their productive purposes.

5. "Disposal Equipment." Structures, machinery or devices at a

disposal site necessary to efficient and environmentally-sound land

disposal of solid wastes, including but not limited to machinery or

devices designed to move earth during burial of wastes or to increase

the density of wastes buried or to be buried. "Disposal Equipment" shall

also mean facilities, except vehicles, in which collected solid waste is

temporarily stored and concentrated prior to transport to a disposal

site.

6. "Municipality." A city, county, town, village, public benefit

corporation having power granted otherwise than under this article to

construct, operate and maintain solid waste management projects, or an

improvement district within a city, county, town or village, or any

combination thereof.

7. "Cost." The cost of resource recovery equipment, source separation

equipment or disposal equipment including interest prior to and during

construction, engineering and architectural surveys, plans and

specifications, and consultants and legal services and other direct

expenses incident to a solid waste management project, exclusive of land

acquisition, and expenses incident thereto, less any federal assistance

received or to be received.

8. "Source separation equipment" shall mean:

(a) Add-ons or trailers designed to modify collection vehicles to

allow sorting and separation of collected wastes held for the purpose of

recycling or collection vehicles whose function and design are

exclusively for such purpose;

(b) Containers for the source separation and temporary storage of

recyclable wastes by residents or business prior to collection;

(c) Bins, sheds or other facilities for the temporary storage of

materials prior to transport for the purposes of recycling.