2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 13-G - Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency › 2050-B - Definitions.

§  2050-b. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears in the context,  the  following  terms
  shall have the following meanings:
1.  "Agency"  means  the public benefit corporation created by section
  two thousand fifty-c of this title, known as the Ulster county  resource
  recovery agency.
2. "Area of operation" means the county of Ulster.
3.  "Bonds"  means the bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness
  issued by the agency pursuant to this title and the provisions  of  this
  title relating to bonds and bondholders shall apply with equal force and
  effect  to  notes  and  noteholders,  respectively,  unless  the context
  otherwise clearly requires.
4.  "Cost"  as  applied  to  any  project,  includes   the   cost   of
  construction,  the  cost  of  the acquisition of all property, including
  real property and other property, both real and  personal  and  improved
  and  unimproved,  the  cost  of  demolishing, removing or relocating any
  buildings or structures on lands so  acquired,  including  the  cost  of
  acquiring any lands to which such building or structures may be moved or
  relocated, the cost of all systems, facilities, machinery, apparatus and
  equipment,  financing  charges,  interest  prior  to,  during  and after
  construction to the extent not paid or provided  for  from  revenues  or
  other  sources, the cost of engineering and architectural surveys, plans
  and specifications, the cost of consultants and legal services, the cost
  of lease guarantee, credit enhancement or bond insurance, other expenses
  necessary or incidental to the construction  of  such  project  and  the
  financing  of  the construction thereof, including the amount authorized
  in the resolution of the agency providing for the issuance of  bonds  to
  be paid into any reserve or other special fund from the proceeds of such
  bonds  and  the  financing  of  the placing of any project in operation,
  including reimbursement  to  the  county,  or  any  municipality,  state
  agency, the state, the United States government, or any other person for
  expenditures  that would be costs of the project hereunder had they been
  made directly by the agency.
5. "County" means the county of Ulster.
6. "County legislature" means the legislative body of the county.
7.  "Construction"  means   the   acquisition,   erection,   building,
  alteration,     improvement,     increase,    enlargement,    extension,
  reconstruction,  renovation  or  rehabilitation   of   a   solid   waste
  management-resource  recovery  facility;  the inspection and supervision
  thereof; and the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal and  economic
  investigations  and  studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings,
  specifications, procedures and other actions incidental thereto.
8. "Governing body" means the members of the agency  constituting  and
  acting as the governing body of the agency.
9.  "Municipality"  means any county, city, town, village, improvement
  district, or  public  corporation  of  the  state,  or  any  combination
  thereof.
10. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, joint
  venture or corporation, exclusive of a public corporation.
11.  "Project"  means  any  solid  waste  management-resource recovery
  facility, the planning, development, financing, construction, operation,
  or maintenance of which is authorized to be undertaken in  whole  or  in
  part by the agency pursuant to this title.
12.  "Real  property" means lands, structures, franchises and interest
  in lands, waters, lands under water, riparian rights and air rights  and
  any and all things and rights included within said term and includes not
  only  fees  simple  absolute,  but  also  any  and  all  lesser interest
  including, but not limited to easements,  rights-of-way,  uses,  leases,

  licenses  and  all  other  incorporeal  hereditaments  and every estate,
  interest or right, legal or equitable, including  terms  for  years  and
  liens thereon by way of judgment, mortgages or otherwise.
13. "Resources recovery" means the separation, extraction and recovery
  of  usable  materials,  energy  or  heat from solid waste through source
  separation, recycling centers or other programs, projects or facilities.
14. "Revenues" means all rates, fees, rents, charges and other  income
  derived by the agency from its operation.
15.  "Solid  waste"  means  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  material,  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, source, special nuclear or by-product material within
  the meaning of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, or waste which
  appears on the list of hazardous waste promulgated by  the  commissioner
  of  environmental  conservation  pursuant  to  section  27-0903  of  the
  environmental conservation law.
16. "Solid waste management-resource recovery facility" or  "facility"
  means   any   facility,   plant,  works,  system,  building,  structure,
  improvement, machinery, equipment, fixture or  other  real  or  personal
  property  which is to be used, occupied or employed for or is incidental
  to the collecting,  receiving,  transporting,  storage,  processing,  or
  disposal  of solid waste or the recovery by any means of any material or
  energy product or  resource  therefrom  including  but  not  limited  to
  recycling  centers,  transfer  stations, baling facilities, rail haul or
  maritime facilities, collection vehicles, processing  systems,  resource
  recovery  facilities,  steam  and  electric  generating and transmission
  facilities, including auxiliary facilities to supplement or  temporarily
  replace  such  generating  facilities,  steam  distribution  and related
  plants  and   facilities,   sanitary   landfills,   leachate   treatment
  facilities,  landspreading  facilities,  waste oil storage, reprocessing
  and  recycling  facilities,  plants  and  facilities   for   compacting,
  composting  or  pyrolization  of  solid  wastes, incinerators, and other
  solid waste disposal, reduction or conversion  facilities  and  resource
  recovery  equipment  and  disposal  equipment as defined in subdivisions
  four and five of section 51-0903 of the environmental conservation  law.
  Any  such  facility producing either electricity or shaft horsepower and
  useful thermal energy  shall  constitute  a  co-generation  facility  as
  defined in subdivision two-a of section two of the public service law.
17. "State" means the state of New York.
18.  "Source separation" means the segregation of recyclable materials
  from the solid waste stream at the  point  of  generation  for  separate
  collection, sale or other disposition.