NY Env Conserv L § 27-0901 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste Title 9 - Industrial Hazardous Waste Management 27-0901 - Definitions.

§ 27-0901. Definitions.When used in this title:1.   "Administrator"   means   the   administrator   of   the  federal   environmental protection agency.2. "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.3.  "Hazardous  waste"  means  a 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 mortality or   an  increase  in  serious  irreversible,  or  incapacitating  reversible   illness; orb.  Pose  a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or   the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported,  disposed,   or otherwise managed.4.  "Hazardous waste generation" means the act or process of producing   hazardous waste.5. "Hazardous waste management" means the systematic  control  of  the   collection,  source  separation,  storage,  transportation,  processing,   treatment, recovery, and disposal of hazardous wastes.6. "Manifest" means  the  form  used  for  identifying  the  quantity,   composition, and the origin, routing, and destination of hazardous waste   during  its  transportation from the point of generation to the point of   disposal, treatment, or storage.7. "Person" means an individual, trust,  firm,  joint  stock  company,   corporation   (including   a   government   corporation),   partnership,   association,  state,  federal  government  and   any   agency   thereof,   municipality,  commission,  political  subdivision  of  a  state, or any   interstate body.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. "Transport" means the movement of hazardous waste from the point of   generation to any intermediate  points  and  finally  to  the  point  of   ultimate storage or disposal.10.  "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.11. "Waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a  waste  treatment   plant,  water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility,   and other discarded material, including  solid,  liquid,  semisolid,  or   contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining   and  agricultural operations and from community activities, but does not   include solid or dissolved material in  domestic  sewage,  or  solid  or   dissolved  materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges   which are point sources subject to permits under  section  four  hundred   two  of  the  federal  Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (86 Stat.   880), or source, special nuclear or by-product material  as  defined  in   the  Atomic  Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 923) except as may   be provided by existing agreements between the state of New York and the   government of the United States. 12. "Landfill" means a disposal facility or part of a  facility  where   solid  waste,  including  hazardous  waste, is placed in or on land, and   which is not a land treatment facility, a  surface  impoundment,  or  an   injection well.13.  "Resource  recovery"  means  any  method,  technique,  or process   utilized to separate,  process,  modify,  convert,  treat  or  otherwise   prepare  hazardous  waste  so that the component materials or substances   thereof may be beneficially used or reused as raw  materials,  exclusive   of useable energy.*   14.   "Commercial   hazardous  waste  facilities"  or  "commercial   facilities" means a facility that receives from off-site  any  hazardous   waste  from  any  person that is not part of the same trust, firm, joint   stock  company,  corporation  (including  a   government   corporation),   partnership,  association,  state,  federal  government  and  any agency   thereof, municipality, commission, political subdivisions of a state, or   any interstate body except when small  quantities  of  hazardous  wastes   from  public bodies are accepted on an emergency basis with the approval   of the commissioner on a no-cost basis.* NB There are 2 sub 14's* 14. "Environment" means any water, water vapor, any  land  including   land  surface  or  subsurface,  air, fish, wildlife, biota and all other   natural resources.* NB There are 2 sub 14's15. "Secure  landburial  facility"  means  a  land  disposal  facility   meeting  the  design  and  operation  requirements  promulgated  by  the   department pursuant to this title for the proper disposal  of  hazardous   wastes  so  that such wastes are immobilized or otherwise prevented from   release to the environment  or  rendered  harmless  or  decomposed  into   harmless materials within the facility.