NY Env Conserv L § 51-0903 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 51 - Inplementation of Environmental Quality Bond Act of 1972 Title 9 - Solid Waste Recovery and Management 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.