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2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 9 - Industrial Hazardous Waste Management › 27-0911 - Standards Applicable to Owners and Operators of Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities.

§ 27-0911. Standards  applicable  to  owners  and operators of hazardous
waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities.
1. Standards applicable to owners and  operators  of  hazardous  waste
  treatment, storage and disposal facilities shall be those established in
  title seven of this article, and the regulations promulgated thereunder,
  shall  be  consistent  with  comparable  standards  promulgated  by  the
  administrator pursuant to RCRA, and shall also include  compliance  with
  the  manifest system established in section 27-0905 of this title. Where
  appropriate and consistent with the provisions of RCRA,  such  standards
  may authorize the granting of exemptions from requirements, or variances
  in requirements, according to criteria established therein.
2.   Such   standards   shall  require  corrective  action,  including
  corrective action  beyond  the  facility  boundary  where  necessary  to
  protect  human health and the environment, for all releases of hazardous
  waste or  constituents  from  any  solid  waste  management  unit  at  a
  treatment,  storage  or disposal facility seeking a permit under section
  27-0913 of this title, regardless of the time at which waste was  placed
  in such unit.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 9 - Industrial Hazardous Waste Management › 27-0914 - Unauthorized Possession, Disposal and Dealing in Hazardous Wastes.

§ 27-0914. Unauthorized  possession,  disposal  and dealing in hazardous
wastes.
1. No person shall possess hazardous wastes without authorization.
2. No person shall dispose of hazardous wastes without authorization.
3. No person shall deal in hazardous wastes without authorization.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 9 - Industrial Hazardous Waste Management › 27-0915 - Inspections and General Reporting.

§ 27-0915. Inspections and general reporting.
1.  For  purposes of developing or assisting in the development of any
  regulation or enforcing the provisions of this  title,  any  person  who
  generates, stores, treats, transports, disposes of, or otherwise handles
  hazardous  wastes  shall, upon oral or written request of any officer or
  employee of the department, when properly identified and duly designated
  by the commissioner, furnish or permit such officer or employee  at  all
  reasonable  times to have access to, and to copy all records relating to
  such wastes.  For  the  purposes  of  developing  or  assisting  in  the
  development of any regulation or enforcing the provisions of this title,
  such  officers or employees are authorized after proper notification and
  identification:
a. To enter at reasonable  times  any  establishment  or  other  place
  maintained  by  any person where hazardous wastes are generated, stored,
  treated, or disposed of;
b. To inspect and obtain samples from any person of  any  such  wastes
  and samples of any containers or labeling for such wastes.
Each  such inspection shall be commenced and completed with reasonable
  promptness. If the officer or employee obtains any samples, prior to his
  leaving the premises, he shall give to the owner, operator, or agent  in
  charge  a  receipt  describing  the  sample  obtained and if requested a
  portion of each such sample equal in volume or  weight  to  the  portion
  retained. If any analysis is made of such samples, a copy of the results
  of  such analysis shall be furnished promptly to the owner, operator, or
  agent in charge.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 9 - Industrial Hazardous Waste Management › 27-0918 - Closure and Post-Closure Plans.

§ 27-0918. Closure and post-closure plans.
1.  Owners and operators of hazardous waste facilities shall submit to
  the department for its approval plans for the closure  and  post-closure
  monitoring  and  maintenance  of  their  facilities.  The department may
  promulgate rules and regulations concerning the contents of such  plans.
  Such  regulations  shall  reflect  due consideration of relevant federal
  requirements and except where necessary to serve the public interest  or
  inconsistent  with  the  purposes  of  this  section,  shall  conform to
  relevant federal regulations, but shall in no  case  be  less  stringent
  than  such  federal  requirements  and  regulations.  In the case of new
  facilities, such plans shall be approved prior to the effective date  of
  the  facility's  operating  permit.  In the case of existing facilities,
  such plans shall be submitted to the department within six months of the
  effective date of  this  section,  and  shall  be  approved,  denied  or
  modified by the department within twelve months of submission.
2. Together with the submission of a plan for closure and post-closure
  monitoring  and  maintenance, the owner or operator of a hazardous waste
  facility shall submit to the department for approval a written  estimate
  of  the  costs  associated therewith. The estimate of closure costs must
  equal the cost of closure at the point in the facility's operating  life
  when  the extent and manner of its operation would make closure the most
  expensive, as indicated by its closure plan.
3. The owner or operator shall prepare new  closure  and  post-closure
  monitoring and maintenance cost estimates whenever the department or the
  owner  or  operator  determines  that  a change in either the closure or
  post-closure monitoring and maintenance requirements affects the cost of
  closure or post-closure care respectively.
4. One year after the approval of the cost estimates as set  forth  in
  subdivision  two  of this section, and annually thereafter until closure
  of the facility, the owner or operator  shall  adjust  the  closure  and
  post-closure   monitoring  and  maintenance  estimates  to  account  for
  inflation.
5. All estimates made pursuant to this section and  revisions  thereto
  shall be subject to the review and approval of the department.
6.   The   department   shall  periodically  review  the  methods  and
  instruments  of  financial  assurances  for  permitted  hazardous  waste
  facilities  to  determine  whether they are adequate in light of changed
  circumstances to insure proper closure and post-closure  monitoring  and
  maintenance of such facilities.
7.  The provisions of this section relating to post-closure monitoring
  and maintenance plans and cost estimates associated therewith shall only
  apply to owners and operators of disposal facilities.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 9 - Industrial Hazardous Waste Management › 27-0919 - Proprietary Information.

§ 27-0919. Proprietary information.
The  department shall hold confidential any information concerning the
  chemical composition, quantity,  method  of  treatment  or  disposal  of
  hazardous  waste  or  any  information related thereto when shown by any
  person that such information, if made public, would divulge  competitive
  business  information,  methods  or  processes entitled to protection as
  trade secrets of such  person,  except  that  such  information  may  be
  disclosed  to  any  officers, employees or authorized representatives of
  the United States or the state concerned with carrying out RCRA  or  the
  state  hazardous  waste  program  or  when  relevant  in  any proceeding
  thereunder.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 9 - Industrial Hazardous Waste Management › 27-0920 - Reports.

§ 27-0920. Reports.
1.  Subject  to  the  moneys  available  to  the  department  for such
purposes, the department shall submit to  the  governor,  the  temporary
president  of  the  senate  and the speaker of the assembly on an annual
basis a complete and detailed report setting forth:
(a) The status of all permits issued and pending  for  the  treatment,
storage,  transportation  or  disposal  of  hazardous wastes pursuant to
section 27-0707 and section 27-0913 of this chapter.
(b) The types and amounts of  financial  assurances  which  have  been
required pursuant to this section.
(c)  Any  other  matters  that  the department determines relevant for
inclusion.
2.  On-site  environmental  monitors  at  commercial  hazardous  waste
facilities  which  utilize  secure  landburial  facilities  as a primary
disposal technique shall prepare a calendar-based  quarterly  report  on
the facility including a list of any violations observed and the actions
taken  to  correct  them, a list of any fines or penalties levied during
the period covered, the  status  of  any  construction,  improvement  or
expansion  projects at the facility, any pertinent information or trends
derived from monitoring devices and  any  other  information  useful  to
describing  the operational status of the facility. The reports shall be
made on a standard form as determined by the  department  and  shall  be
filed within twenty days after the end of each calendar quarter with the
appropriate  department  regional office, with the facility and with any
municipality and county within  which  the  facility  is  located.  Each
monitor  assigned  to the facility during a report period shall sign the
report  and  shall  be  available  to  answer  questions  posed  by  the
municipalities  or facility operator concerning the activities described
in each such report. Quarterly reports shall be  kept  on  file  at  the
appropriate regional office and made available to the public.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 9 - Industrial Hazardous Waste Management › 27-0921 - Short-Term Management.

§ 27-0921. Short-term management.
1.  a.  The  commissioner  shall  immediately  begin  preparation of a
proposal for a short-term hazardous waste  management  program  for  the
effective  and  safe disposal, treatment and storage of hazardous waste.
Such program  shall  be  coordinated  with  the  on-going  comprehensive
program for the long-term treatment and disposal of hazardous waste.
b.  As  part of the proposal, a comprehensive study shall be made with
regard to the short-term needs of New York state generators of hazardous
waste consistent with the protection of public health and safety and the
environment and in light of:
(1) federal and state laws, rules and regulations designed  to  ensure
proper  disposition  of hazardous waste from generation to final storage
or treatment which place substantial  responsibilities  on  industry  to
responsibly and safely dispose of hazardous waste;
(2)  the identified shortfall in existing available storage, treatment
and disposal capacity, and  the  potential  economic  and  environmental
problems  that  may  occur  as  a  result of the potential disruption of
operation of the presently  permitted  commercial  industrial  hazardous
waste  disposal,  treatment  and storage facilities located in New York;
and
(3) the fact that it will take a period  of  several  years  before  a
comprehensive  program  for  the  long-term  disposal  and  treatment of
hazardous waste is in operation sufficient to replace or reduce  present
methods of hazardous waste disposal.
c.  The  proposed  short-term hazardous waste management program shall
incorporate the best short-term methods and means available to  contain,
store and treat hazardous waste. In preparing the program, consideration
shall  be  given to the short-term needs of New York state generators of
hazardous waste, to the siting of  secure  landfills  or  other  storage
facilities  on  suitable private or state-owned land, to the development
and construction of such facilities in a manner to safely allow for  the
eventual  retrieval  of  hazardous  waste  for  the  purpose of ultimate
destruction, detoxification, or neutralization by  industrial  hazardous
waste  treatment  facilities,  to  the  options of public versus private
ownership and operation of such facilities, to the  ongoing  efforts  to
establish  and  maintain  a  statewide waste exchange system, and to the
establishment of incentives to encourage  reduction  of  the  amount  of
hazardous waste generated.
2.  Not  later  than  January  first, nineteen hundred eighty-two, the
commissioner shall submit to the legislature the study and the  proposal
for a short-term hazardous waste management program required pursuant to
subdivision  one  of  this  section, including any proposed implementing
legislation and rules and regulations where appropriate.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 9 - Industrial Hazardous Waste Management › 27-0922 - Prohibitions.

§ 27-0922. Prohibitions.
The  use  of  waste  oil  or  used  oil  or  other  material  which is
  contaminated or mixed with  any  chlorinated  dibenzo-p-dioxin,  or  any
  other  hazardous waste identified or listed according to the regulations
  promulgated pursuant to section 27-0903 of  this  title  (other  than  a
  waste  identified  solely  on  the  basis  of  ignitability),  for  dust
  suppression or road treatment is prohibited.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 9 - Industrial Hazardous Waste Management › 27-0924 - Hazardous Materials Enforcement Training Program.

§ 27-0924. Hazardous materials enforcement training program.
1.  The  department  shall formulate and establish, no later than July
first, nineteen hundred eighty-five and thereafter  from  time  to  time
reformulate,  a  specialized  educational  program  to  be  known as the
"hazardous materials enforcement training program" hereinafter  referred
to as the "program".
a.  The  department  shall  be  responsible  for administration of the
program and shall prescribe the curriculum which shall include, but  not
be limited to:
(i)  a  review  of the provisions of this title, title three and title
thirteen  of  this  article  and  of  title  twenty-seven   of   article
seventy-one  of  this  chapter and any rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder;
(ii) a review of the provisions of title twelve of article thirteen of
the  public  health  law  and  any  rules  and  regulations  promulgated
thereunder;
(iii)  a  review  of  the  provisions  of  section  fourteen-f  of the
transportation law and any rules and regulations promulgated thereunder;
(iv) a review of the provisions of section three hundred eighty of the
vehicle and traffic  law  and  any  rules  and  regulations  promulgated
thereunder; and
(v) a description of the activities and services of the department.
b.  The  department  shall  prepare any written materials necessary or
useful for the purposes of the program.
c. In preparing the curriculum for the program, the  department  shall
consult  with  and  receive  full  cooperation from the commissioners of
health, transportation, and motor vehicles, the  attorney  general,  the
state  fire  administrator,  and authorized police departments and other
authorized  law  enforcement  agencies  in  the  state   regarding   the
particular needs and interests of such departments and agencies relating
to the contents of such curriculum.
2.   The   department  shall  notify  in  writing,  authorized  police
departments and other authorized law enforcement agencies in  the  state
of the establishment and availability of the program.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 9 - Industrial Hazardous Waste Management › 27-0926 - Use and Recycling of Elemental Mercury and Dental Amalgam by Dentists.

§ 27-0926. Use  and recycling of elemental mercury and dental amalgam by
dentists.
1. No dentist shall use or possess elemental mercury in  the  practice
  of  dentistry  unless such elemental mercury is contained in appropriate
  pre-encapsulated capsules specifically designed for the mixing of dental
  amalgam. All dentists shall recycle any elemental mercury, including any
  pre-encapsulated  mercury  capsule  waste,  and  dental  amalgam   waste
  generated  in  their  dental  practices  in  accordance  with  rules and
  regulations established by the commissioner.
2. The commissioner is hereby authorized and  directed  to  promulgate
  rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of this section.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 10 - Litter and Solid Waste Control › 27-1001 - Legislative Findings.

§ 27-1001. Legislative findings.
The  legislature  hereby  finds  that  litter  composed  of  discarded
  beverage containers is a growing problem of state concern and  a  direct
  threat to the health and safety of the citizens of this state. Discarded
  beverage  containers  create  a hazard to vehicular traffic, a source of
  physical injury to pedestrians and farm animals, a hazard  to  farm  and
  other  machinery  and  an unsightly accumulation of litter which must be
  disposed of at  increasing  public  expense.  Beverage  containers  also
  create  an  unnecessary  addition  to  the  state's  and municipalities'
  already  overburdened  solid  waste   and   refuse   disposal   systems.
  Unsegregated  disposal  of  such containers creates an impediment to the
  efficient  operation  of  resource   recovery   plants.   Further,   the
  legislature  finds  that  the uninhibited discard of beverage containers
  constitutes  a  waste  of  both  mineral  and  energy   resources.   The
  legislature  hereby  finds  that  requiring  a  deposit  on all beverage
  containers, along with certain other facilitating measures, will provide
  a necessary incentive for the economically efficient and environmentally
  benign collection and recycling of such containers.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 10 - Litter and Solid Waste Control › 27-1005 - Refund Value.

§ 27-1005. Refund value.
No  person  shall  sell or offer for sale a beverage container in this
  state unless the deposit on such  beverage  container  is  or  has  been
  collected  by  a  registered deposit initiator and unless such container
  has a refund value  of  not  less  than  five  cents  which  is  clearly
  indicated thereon as provided in section 27-1011 of this title.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 10 - Litter and Solid Waste Control › 27-1009 - Refusal of Acceptance.

§ 27-1009. Refusal of acceptance.
1.  A  dealer  or operator of a redemption center may refuse to accept
  from a redeemer, and a deposit initiator or distributor  may  refuse  to
  accept  from  a  dealer  or  operator  of  a redemption center any empty
  beverage container which does  not  state  thereon  a  refund  value  as
  established  by  section 27-1005 and provided by section 27-1011 of this
  title.
2. A dealer or operator of a redemption  center  may  also  refuse  to
  accept any broken bottle, corroded, crushed or dismembered container, or
  any  beverage  container  which contains a significant amount of foreign
  material, as determined in rules and regulations to  be  promulgated  by
  the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 10 - Litter and Solid Waste Control › 27-1011 - Beverage Container Requirements.

§ 27-1011. Beverage container requirements.
1.  a. Every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state
shall clearly indicate by permanently marking or embossing the container
or by printing as part of the product label  the  refund  value  of  the
container and the words "New York" or the letters "NY".
b.  Such  embossing  or permanent imprinting on the beverage container
shall be the responsibility of the person,  firm  or  corporation  which
bottles,  cans  or otherwise fills or packages a beverage container or a
brand owner for whose exclusive  account  private  label  beverages  are
bottled,  canned or otherwise packaged; provided, however, that the duly
authorized agent of any such person, firm or  corporation  may  indicate
such  refund value by a label securely affixed on any beverage container
containing beverages imported into  the  United  States.  Private  label
beverages  shall  be  defined  as  beverages purchased from a bottler in
beverage containers bearing a brand name or trademark for sale at retail
directly by the owner or licensee of such brand name  or  trademark;  or
through  retail  dealers  affiliated  with  such  owner or licensee by a
cooperative or franchise agreement.
2. No deposit initiator, distributor or dealer shall sell or offer for
sale, at wholesale or retail in this state, any metal beverage container
designed and constructed with a ring  or  tab  which  is  detachable  in
opening  the  container  unless  such  detachable part will decompose by
photodegradation or biodegradation.
3. No deposit initiator, distributor or dealer shall sell or offer for
sale in this state beverage containers connected  to  each  other  by  a
separate  holding  device  constructed  of  plastic  which does not: (a)
decompose by photodegradation or biodegradation; or
(b) comply with minimum post-consumer recycled  material  content  and
hole   diameter   limitations   as  defined  in  rules  and  regulations
promulgated by the department, and is recyclable and indicates  a  resin
identification code.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 10 - Litter and Solid Waste Control › 27-1014 - Authority to Promulgate Rules and Regulations.

§ 27-1014. Authority to promulgate rules and regulations.
In  addition  to  the  authority  of  the commissioner, under sections
  27-1009 and 27-1013 of this title, the commissioner shall have the power
  to promulgate rules and regulations necessary and  appropriate  for  the
  administration of this title.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 10 - Litter and Solid Waste Control › 27-1016 - Public Education.

§ 27-1016. Public education.
The  commissioner  shall  establish  a  public  education  program  to
  disseminate information regarding implementation  of  this  title.  Such
  information shall include, but not be limited to, publication of the New
  York  Bottle  Bill  of Rights as specified in subdivision two of section
  27-1007  of  this  title;  publication  of  information  specifying  the
  procedures  necessary  to  establish  a redemption center as provided in
  section 27-1013 of this title, including information regarding financial
  assistance available for the  establishment  of  redemption  centers  as
  provided  in  section  27-1018 of this title; publication of information
  delineating  the  relevant  rights  and  responsibilities   of   deposit
  initiators,  distributors,  dealers,  redemption  centers  and redeemers
  under the provisions of this title; publication of information regarding
  the requirement that deposit initiators register with the department  of
  taxation  and  finance;  and  publication  of information on the general
  benefits of recycling.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 10 - Litter and Solid Waste Control › 27-1018 - Beverage Container Assistance Program.

§ 27-1018. Beverage container assistance program.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, within the
  limits  of  appropriations  therefor,  the commissioner shall make state
  assistance payments to  municipalities,  businesses  and  not-for-profit
  organizations  located  in  the  state  for  the cost of reverse vending
  machines located or to be located in the state.  Such  state  assistance
  payments  shall  not  exceed  fifty  percent  of the costs of equipment,
  and/or  the  acquisition  and/or  rehabilitation  of  real  property  or
  structures  located  or  to  be  located  in  the  state  related to the
  collecting, sorting, and packaging of empty beverage containers  subject
  to the provisions of this title. Such payments may include costs related
  to  the establishment of redemption centers, including mobile redemption
  centers.  For  the  purposes  of  this   section,   municipalities   and
  not-for-profit  organizations  shall  have  the  meaning  as  defined in
  section 54-0101 of this chapter and  businesses  shall  mean  a  dealer,
  distributor  or  redemption center as defined in this title that employs
  less than fifty employees.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 10 - Litter and Solid Waste Control › 27-1019 - Severability.

§ 27-1019. Severability.
The  provisions  of  this  title shall be severable and if any phrase,
  clause, sentence or  provision  of  this  title,  or  the  applicability
  thereof  to  any  person  or  circumstance  shall  be  held invalid, the
  remainder of this  title  and  the  application  thereof  shall  not  be
  affected thereby.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 11 - Industrial Siting Hazardous Waste Facilities › 27-1107 - Powers of Municipalities.

§ 27-1107. Powers of municipalities.
Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law,  no municipality may,
  except as expressly authorized by this article or the board, require any
  approval, consent, permit,  certificate  or  other  condition  including
  conformity  with local zoning or land use laws and ordinances, regarding
  the operation  of  a  facility  with  respect  to  which  a  certificate
  hereunder  has  been  granted; provided, however, that such municipality
  has received notice of the filing of the application therefor.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 11 - Industrial Siting Hazardous Waste Facilities › 27-1111 - Public Participation and Education.

§ 27-1111. Public participation and education.
The  department  shall  establish  a  public information program which
  addresses:
1.  The  nature  and  dimension  of  the  industrial  hazardous  waste
  treatment, storage and disposal facility siting problem.
2.  The  need  for  the  establishment  of a statewide hazardous waste
  facility  siting  plan  including  the  need  to  site  any   additional
  industrial  hazardous  waste  treatment, storage and disposal facilities
  and the role of waste reduction, recycling and  reuse  in  the  planning
  process.
3.  The  necessity  and  opportunities for public participation in the
  siting and planning process.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 11 - Industrial Siting Hazardous Waste Facilities › 27-1113 - Community Advisory Committees.

§ 27-1113. Community advisory committees.
1.  In  addition  to any authority conferred by any other provision of
  law, a county within which  an  industrial  hazardous  waste  treatment,
  storage  and  disposal facility subject to this title is to be situated,
  shall constitute a committee for the purpose of entering into a dialogue
  with the applicant to develop mutually acceptable solutions to  problems
  which may be created by the siting of the facility in the community.
2.  The  committee  shall  have  no  fewer  than nine and no more than
  fifteen members.  No  more  than  one-third  of  the  members  shall  be
  designated  by  the chief executive officer, or if none, the chairman of
  the county legislative body,  of  the  affected  county.  No  less  than
  two-thirds  of  the  members  shall be designated by the chief executive
  officer of the affected city, town  or  village  as  the  case  may  be,
  provided  however,  if the proposed facility is located in more than one
  city, town or village, the  chief  executive  officer  of  such  cities,
  towns,  or  villages shall have the authority to appoint an equal number
  of members to the local advisory committee, the total of which shall not
  be less than two-thirds of such committee.
3. The members of the committee  shall  be  deemed  employees  of  the
  public entity by which they were respectively designated for purposes of
  section eighteen of the public officers law.
4.   Within   fifteen  days  after  receipt  of  notification  of  the
  constitution of a community advisory  committee,  the  chairman  of  the
  board  or  his  designee  shall  convene  and  preside over a conference
  between the applicant and such committee. The chairman of  the  facility
  siting board or his designee shall endeavor to foster a dialogue between
  the  applicant  and  the  committee,  and to that end, shall convene and
  preside over such additional conferences as may be necessary.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 11 - Industrial Siting Hazardous Waste Facilities › 27-1115 - Aid to Local Governments.

§ 27-1115. Aid to local governments.
No  later  than the first day of April, nineteen hundred eighty-eight,
  the department shall submit to the legislature and the governor a report
  recommending appropriate forms of  state  aid  or  assistance  to  local
  governmental  units  within  the  boundaries  of  which  any  industrial
  hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal  facilities  subject  to
  this  title  may  be  located.  Such  report  shall  be developed by the
  department and shall:
1. describe the nature of the probable impacts upon local governmental
  units of such facilities;
2. describe the possible forms or kinds  of  state  or  other  aid  or
  assistance which might be appropriate to mitigate or provide off-setting
  benefits  with respect to each of the kinds of probable impacts on local
  governmental units identified pursuant to this section; and
3.  set  forth  the  department's  specific  recommendations  to   the
  legislature  and  the  governor for the forms of kinds of state or other
  aid or assistance to local governmental units  to  mitigate  or  provide
  off-setting  benefits  with  respect  to such impacts, together with the
  reasons for the department's specific recommendations.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 12 - Mitigation and Remediation of Certain Solid Waste Sites and Drinking Water Contamination › 27-1209 - Rules and Regulations.

§ 27-1209. Rules and regulations.
The  department  shall  promulgate rules and regulations necessary and
  appropriate to carry out the purposes of  this  title  and  shall  at  a
  minimum include such provisions for requisite due process and meaningful
  public  participation  as  are  appropriate  to  any  action  undertaken
  pursuant to this title, taking into consideration the nature and  degree
  of   any  public  health  impacts  and  the  urgency  of  any  need  for
  investigation or remediation of contamination.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 12 - Mitigation and Remediation of Certain Solid Waste Sites and Drinking Water Contamination › 27-1211 - Protection Against Liability and Liability Exemptions and Defenses.

§ 27-1211. Protection  against  liability  and  liability exemptions and
defenses.
In addition to common law defenses, the provisions of sections 27-1321
  and 27-1323 of this article shall apply to a solid waste  site  that  is
  causing   or  substantially  contributing  to  contamination  of  public
  drinking water supplies or a drinking water contamination site  pursuant
  to  this  title and shall apply to emerging contaminants in the same way
  applicable to hazardous materials and hazardous wastes.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 13 - Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites › 27-1303 - Identification of Sites.

§ 27-1303. Identification of sites.
1. a. For a period of one year after the effective date of the chapter
  of  the  laws  of  two  thousand  three  designating  and  amending this
  paragraph, each county shall,  for  the  purpose  of  locating  inactive
  hazardous  waste  disposal  sites,  as  that term was defined on January
  first, two thousand three, survey  its  jurisdiction  to  determine  the
  existence  and  location  of suspected inactive hazardous waste disposal
  sites and shall annually thereafter submit a report  to  the  department
  describing  the location of each such suspected site and the reasons for
  such suspicion.
b. Commencing one year after the effective  date  of  this  paragraph,
  each  county shall, for the purpose of locating inactive hazardous waste
  disposal sites, survey its jurisdiction to determine the  existence  and
  location  of suspected inactive hazardous waste disposal sites and shall
  annually thereafter submit a report to  the  department  describing  the
  location of each such suspected site and the reasons for such suspicion.
2.  Each county shall review the information concerning such county in
  the registry established pursuant to section 27-1305 of this article and
  shall, on or  before  September  first,  nineteen  hundred  eighty,  and
  annually  thereafter  on  the  first day of September of each succeeding
  year, provide the department with any information which might correct or
  supplement the information in such registry with  respect  to  suspected
  inactive  hazardous waste disposal sites within the jurisdiction of such
  county.
3. Nothing contained within this section shall (a) preclude  a  county
  from  cooperating  with  local  jurisdictions, regional organizations or
  state agencies to fulfill its responsibilities  under  subdivisions  one
  and  two of this section or (b) reduce the powers or responsibilities of
  any county, other local jurisdiction,  regional  organization  or  state
  agency   to  identify,  investigate,  assess  or  monitor  any  inactive
  hazardous waste disposal site.
4. For purposes of this section,  "county"  shall  include  each  city
  incorporating  within  its  boundary  one or more counties but shall not
  include those counties incorporated within a city.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 13 - Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites › 27-1307 - Reports to the Department.

§ 27-1307. Reports to the department.
1.   In  order  to  facilitate  the  department's  efforts  to  secure
  information about inactive hazardous waste disposal sites in the  state,
  any  person  shall,  upon  the request of the department, furnish to the
  department, in a form and  manner  prescribed  by  the  department,  the
  following information:
a.  The  name  and  location  of facilities within the state that have
  generated significant quantities of hazardous wastes or sites within the
  state which have received wastes which are now or were formerly owned or
  operated by such person or to or from which such person has  transported
  such wastes;
b.  A  description  of  current and past waste generating and disposal
  activities at facilities identified pursuant  to  paragraph  a  of  this
  subdivision  which  have  generated  hazardous wastes including products
  manufactured or services provided, generic type of processes used in the
  manufacturing of products or provision of services, the type and  annual
  quantity  of  hazardous  wastes generated in significant quantities, the
  locations of all sites used for the disposal of wastes generated by such
  facilities, the years of use of such sites for the disposal  of  wastes,
  the  type and quantity of waste disposed of at such sites and the manner
  of disposal of hazardous wastes at such sites;
c. A description of current and  past  waste  disposal  activities  at
  sites  identified pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision which have
  received wastes including years of use of such sites for the disposal of
  wastes, type and quantity of all hazardous wastes disposed  of  at  such
  sites and the manner of disposal of hazardous wastes at such sites;
d. With respect to each site identified pursuant to paragraphs a and b
  of  this  subdivision,  names of persons that have transported hazardous
  wastes to such sites,  a  description  of  any  testing,  monitoring  or
  remedial actions undertaken or planned at such sites and any significant
  health  or  environmental  problems  known or suspected to exist at such
  sites; and
e. Any other information that the department  may  deem  necessary  to
  prepare the state inactive hazardous waste remedial plan or the registry
  required by section 27-1305 of this article.
2.  In  the  event the person furnishing such information cannot fully
  comply with the request for information, such person shall set forth his
  efforts to comply with such request.
3. Any information submitted to the department shall be  considered  a
  "written  instrument"  as defined in subdivision three of section 175.00
  of the penal law.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 13 - Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites › 27-1311 - Confidentiality.

§ 27-1311. Confidentiality.
1.  The  department  or any other state agency shall hold confidential
  any information in any report to the department made pursuant to section
  27-1307 of this article or any records secured by the department or  any
  inspection,  sampling  or  analysis  made  by the department pursuant to
  section 27-1309  of  this  article  or  obtained  while  implementing  a
  remedial  program  pursuant  to section 27-1313 of this article when the
  site owner or operator or a  generator  who  contributed  to  any  waste
  disposed  of  at  the site requests that such information is entitled to
  protection  under  paragraph  (d)  of   subdivision   two   of   section
  eighty-seven  of  the  public  officers  law  and  rules and regulations
  promulgated  thereunder.  Release  of  such  information  shall  be   in
  accordance with article six of the public officers law.
2. Any agent, consultant, contractor or other person authorized by the
  commissioner   pursuant  to  this  title  shall  hold  such  information
  confidential. Release of any such information by any agent,  consultant,
  contractor  or other person authorized by the commissioner shall only be
  made  after  a  determination  by  the  commissioner  pursuant  to   the
  procedures set forth in article six of the public officers law.
3.  Nothing  herein shall restrict the exchange of information between
  the department and its agents, consultants, contractors or other persons
  authorized by  the  commissioner  pursuant  to  this  title  or  between
  separate agents, consultants, contractors or other persons authorized by
  the commissioner pursuant to this title.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 13 - Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites › 27-1315 - Rules and Regulations.

§ 27-1315. Rules and regulations.
1.  The  commissioner  shall  have  the  power to promulgate rules and
  regulations necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of  this
  title.  Any  regulations  shall  include  provisions which establish the
  procedures for a hearing pursuant to subdivision four of section 27-1313
  of this title and shall ensure  a  division  of  functions  between  the
  commissioner,  the  staff who present the case, and any hearing officers
  appointed. In addition, any regulations shall set forth findings  to  be
  based  on  a  factual record, which must be made before the commissioner
  determines that a significant threat to the environment exists.
2. Such rules and regulations of the department as shall be in  effect
  on  the  effective  date  of  this  subdivision  that  shall  have  been
  promulgated to carry out the purposes of this title shall be  deemed  to
  be revised, as of the effective date of this subdivision, to include the
  definition of "hazardous waste" as it appears in section 27-1301 of this
  title.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 13 - Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites › 27-1316 - Citizen Technical Assistance Grants.

§ 27-1316. Citizen technical assistance grants.
1. The commissioner is authorized to provide, or order a person acting
under  order  or  on  consent,  to  provide grants to any not-for-profit
corporation exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the internal
revenue code who may be affected by an inactive hazardous waste disposal
site  remedial  program.  To  qualify  to  receive  such  assistance,  a
community  group  must  demonstrate  that  its membership represents the
interests of the community affected by  such  site,  and  that  members'
health,   economic  well-being  or  enjoyment  of  the  environment  are
potentially affected by  such  site.  Such  grants  shall  be  known  as
technical  assistance  grants  and  may  be  used  to  obtain  technical
assistance in interpreting information with regard to the nature of  the
hazard posed by hazardous waste located at or emanating from an inactive
hazardous   waste  disposal  site  or  sites  and  the  development  and
implementation of an inactive hazardous  waste  disposal  site  remedial
program or programs. Such grants may also be used:
(a) to advise affected residents on any health assessment; and
(b)  for  training  funds  for  the  education  of interested affected
community members to enable them to more effectively participate in  the
remedy selection process.
Grants  awarded under this section may not be used for the purposes of
collecting  field  sampling  data,  political   activity   or   lobbying
legislative bodies.
2.  The  amount of any grant awarded under this section may not exceed
fifty thousand dollars at any one site.
3. No matching contribution from the grant recipient shall be required
for a technical assistance grant. Following a grant award, a portion  of
the  grant shall be made available to the grant recipient, in advance of
the expenditures to be covered by the grant,  in  five  thousand  dollar
installments.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 13 - Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites › 27-1317 - New Use of Sites.

§ 27-1317. New use of sites.
Subsequent  to  the adoption of regulations by the department provided
  for in this section, no person may substantially change  the  manner  in
  which an inactive hazardous waste disposal site on the registry prepared
  and  maintained  by  the  department pursuant to section 27-1305 of this
  title is used, without notifying the department and, pursuant to section
  one thousand three hundred eighty-nine-d of the public health  law,  the
  department  of  health.  A substantial change of use shall be defined in
  rules and regulations adopted by the department and shall  include,  but
  not be limited to, the erection of a building or other structure on such
  site,  the  paving of such site for use as a roadway or parking lot, and
  the creation of a park or other public or private recreational  facility
  on  such  site.  Such  notice  shall  be  in  writing,  addressed to the
  commissioner and the commissioner of health and shall  include  a  brief
  description  of  the  proposed  change  of  use.  Such  notice  shall be
  submitted at least sixty days before any physical alteration of the land
  or  construction  shall  occur  or,  in  the  event  any  alteration  or
  construction  is  not  required to initiate such change of use, at least
  sixty days before any change of use.
Subsequent to the adoption of regulations by the  department  provided
  for  in  this  section, no person may substantially change the manner in
  which an inactive hazardous waste disposal site, for which a declaration
  has been issued by the commissioner of health  pursuant  to  subdivision
  two  of  section  one thousand three hundred eighty-nine-b of the public
  health law, is used without the written approval of the commissioner and
  the commissioner of health. The  commissioner  shall  not  approve  such
  change  of  use  if  such  new  use  will interfere significantly with a
  proposed, ongoing or completed inactive hazardous  waste  disposal  site
  remedial  program  at such site or expose the environment or health to a
  significantly increased threat of harm.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 14 - Brownfield Cleanup Program › 27-1403 - Declaration of Policy and Findings of Fact.

§ 27-1403. Declaration of policy and findings of fact.
The legislature hereby finds that there are thousands of abandoned and
  likely  contaminated properties that threaten the health and vitality of
  the communities they burden, and that these sites, known as brownfields,
  are also contributing to sprawl development and loss of open  space.  It
  is  therefore  declared  that, to advance the policy of the state of New
  York to  conserve,  improve,  and  protect  its  natural  resources  and
  environment  and  control  water,  land,  and  air pollution in order to
  enhance the health, safety, and welfare of the people of the  state  and
  their overall economic and social well being, it is appropriate to adopt
  this  act to encourage persons to voluntarily remediate brownfield sites
  for reuse and redevelopment by  establishing  within  the  department  a
  statutory  program  to encourage cleanup and redevelopment of brownfield
  sites. All remedies shall be fully protective of public health  and  the
  environment  including, but not limited to, groundwater according to its
  classification pursuant to section 17-0301 of this chapter.  A  remedial
  program  that  achieves  a  permanent  cleanup  of  a contaminated site,
  including the restoration of groundwater to its classified use, is to be
  preferred over a remedial program that does not do so. It is the  intent
  of  the  legislature  that  the  provisions  of  this brownfield cleanup
  program shall not be construed as limiting or  otherwise  affecting  any
  authority conferred upon the department by any other provision of law.