N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1901: Definitions

* § 1901. Definitions. As used in this title, the following terms

shall have the following meanings:

1. "Authority" shall have the same meaning as in subdivision two of

section eighteen hundred fifty-one of this article.

2. "Commission" shall mean the public service commission.

3. "Departments" shall mean the department of environmental

conservation, the department of agriculture and markets, the department

of economic development and the department of public service.

4. "Environmental justice area" shall mean a minority or low-income

community that may bear a disproportionate share of the negative

environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and

commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and

tribal programs and policies.

5. "Host community" shall mean any municipality within which a major

renewable energy facility or qualified energy storage system, or any

portion thereof, has been proposed for development.

6. "Renewable energy facility" shall have the same meaning as

renewable energy systems defined in section sixty-six-p of the public

service law.

7. "Municipality" shall mean a county, city, town or village or

political subdivision.

8. "Build-ready site" shall mean a site for which the authority has

secured permits, property interests, agreements and/or other

authorizations necessary to offer such site for further development,

construction and operation of a renewable energy facility, with or

without a paired qualified energy storage system, or a stand-alone

qualified energy storage system, in accordance with the other provisions

of this title.

9. "Qualified energy storage system" shall have the same meaning as

qualified energy storage system defined in section seventy-four of the

public service law.

* NB Repealed December 31, 2030