New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION › Chapter VII - STATE AID › Subchapter B - STATE AID FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION PROGRAMS › Part 637 - QUALIFICATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION PERSONNEL › Section 637.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
When used in this Part:
(a) Agency means county or city agency which
				  regulates environmental conservation activities, other than a local health
				  department. The population under an agency's jurisdiction shall be determined
				  to reside within its political boundaries by reference to the latest Federal
				  census.
(b) Accredited school,
				  college, university or other place of learning means a degree-granting
				  institution of learning which offers courses or programs that have been
				  accredited by an organization acceptable to, or registered by, the New York
				  State Education Department.
(c)
				  Commissioner means the Commissioner of Environmental Conservation or his
				  designee.
(d) Environmental
				  conservation activity means the protection of human populations from adverse
				  environmental factors, the protection of the environment from degradation and
				  the improvement of the environment for human benefit.
(e) Environmental conservation activity
				  experience means activities performed while gainfully employed which are
				  intended to protect human populations from adverse environmental factors, to
				  protect the environment from degradation, and/or to improve the environment for
				  human benefit. Such activities may be regulatory or operational in
				  nature.
(f) Environmental
				  engineering means the application of the knowledge of the mathematical and
				  natural sciences gained by study, experience and practice for the protection of
				  human populations from the effects of adverse environmental factors, for the
				  protection of the environment from the potentially deleterious effects of human
				  activities and natural deterioration, and for the improvement of environmental
				  quality for human health and well-being. It includes public health engineering,
				  sanitary engineering and environmental health engineering, and may be practiced
				  by graduates of sanitary, environmental, civil, chemical or other engineering
				  curricula, provided such graduates meet the requirements of this
				  section.
(g) Environmental science
				  means the investigation, observation and classification of data concerning
				  natural objects, organic or inorganic, the substances composing these natural
				  objects and the characteristics they exhibit which are required for the
				  preservation and protection of the environment.
(h) Natural science means the branches of
				  knowledge collectively which deal directly with natural objects, organic or
				  inorganic, the substances composing these natural objects and the phenomena
				  they exhibit. It includes biology in all its branches, geology, chemistry,
				  physics, radiation, geography and other sciences, but not abstract mathematics,
				  philosophy or metaphysics.
(i)
				  Related courses shall refer to basic required subjects and programs pertaining
				  to environmental conservation. The number of instruction hours shall be
				  specified by the commissioner.