2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 3 - Waste Transporter Permits › 27-0303 - Definitions.

§ 27-0303. Definitions.
When used in this title:
1.  "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.
2. "Industrial-commercial waste" means a waste which originates at, is
  generated by, or occurs as a result  of  any  industrial  or  commercial
  activity. The forms of waste included are exemplified by but not limited
  to the following:
a. liquids such as: acids, alkalis, caustics, leachate, petroleum (and
  its derivatives), and process or treatment wastewaters;
b.  sludges  which  are semisolid substances resulting from process or
  treatment operations, or residues from storage or use of liquids;
c. solids such as: solidified chemicals, paints or pigments;  the  end
  or by-products of incineration ash; foundry sand; dredge spoil;
d. contained gaseous materials;
e. hazardous waste as defined in title 9 of this article; and
f.   any  liquid,  sludge,  septage,  solid,  semisolid  substance  or
  contained gaseous material in which any of the foregoing  is  intermixed
  or absorbed, or onto which any of the foregoing is adhered.
3.  "Person"  means  any  individual,  public  or private corporation,
  political subdivision, government agency, department or  bureau  of  the
  state  or  federal  government,  municipality, industry, co-partnership,
  association, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity.
4. "Regulated waste" means any one of the following  types  of  waste:
  raw  sewage,  septage,  sludge  from  a sewage or water supply treatment
  plant,  industrial-commercial  waste,  low-level  radioactive  waste  as
  defined in subdivision nine of this section, waste tires or waste oil.
5.  "Septage"  means  the contents of a septic tank, cesspool or other
  individual sewage treatment  facility  which  receives  domestic  sewage
  wastes.
6. "Storage" means the holding of waste for a temporary period, at the
  end  of  which the waste is processed, recovered, disposed of, or stored
  elsewhere.
7. "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  article  17  of  this
  chapter, 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  and  the  federal
  government.
8.  "Waste  oil"  means used engine lubricating oil and any other oil,
  including but not limited to, fuel oil, motor  oil,  gear  oil,  cutting
  oil,  transmission fluid, hydraulic fluid, dielectric fluid, oil storage
  tank residue, animal oil, and vegetable oil, which has been contaminated
  by physical or chemical impurities, through use or accident, and has not
  subsequently been rerefined.
* 9. "Low-level radioactive waste" means radioactive material that:
a. is not  high-level  radioactive  waste,  transuranic  waste,  spent
  nuclear  fuel,  or  the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or

  concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for
  its source material content; and
b.  the  United  States nuclear regulatory commission, consistent with
  federal law and in accordance with  paragraph  a  of  this  subdivision,
  classifies as low-level radioactive waste.
* NB There are 2 sb 9's
* 9.  "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 sb 9's
11. "Regulated medical waste" shall have the same meaning as such term
  is defined in title 15 of this article.
12. "Waste tires" shall mean waste tires transported for a fee for the
  purpose  of  reuse,  recycling or disposal, except those tires collected
  and transported incidental to the collection and transportation of solid
  waste.