2006 New York Code - Definitions.

 
  § 27-1101. Definitions.
    As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires:
    1.  "Person"  means  any  individual,  public  or private corporation,
  political  subdivision,  government   agency,   industry,   partnership,
  association, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity whatsoever.
    2.  "Corporation"  means  the  New York state environmental facilities
  corporation.
    3. "Board" means a facility siting board constituted pursuant  to  the
  provisions of section 27-1105 of this title.
    4.  "Industrial  hazardous  waste"  shall  mean an industrial waste or
  combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration,  or
  physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may:
    a.  Cause,  or  significantly  contribute  to  an  increase in serious
  irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness; and/or
    b. Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human  health  or
  the environment and, therefore, must be segregated and excluded from the
  general  municipal  waste  system  and  sewage  collection and treatment
  process.
    5.  "Industrial  hazardous  waste  treatment,  storage  and   disposal
  facility"  shall  mean  a  specialized  facility  or  site  other than a
  low-level  radioactive  waste  management  facility   subject   to   the
  provisions of article twenty-nine of this chapter, or a sewage treatment
  facility  for  the  purpose of treating, storing, compacting, recycling,
  exchanging,  or  disposing  of  industrial  hazardous  waste  materials,
  including  treatment,  compacting, resource recovery or disposal plants,
  equipment and furnishings  thereof  used  for  the  storage,  treatment,
  compacting,  composting,  shredding, coverting, utilization, processing,
  or final disposal of hazardous  waste,  including  but  not  limited  to
  mechanical,   chemical  or  thermal  processing  systems,  incinerators,
  sanitary landfills, other  facilities  for  the  storage,  reduction  or
  conversion  of  hazardous  waste,  including but not limited to transfer
  stations, baling facilities, railroad  and  maritime  facilities,  motor
  trucks   or  vehicles  and  appurtenances,  furnishings,  equipment  and
  machinery deemed necessary thereto.
    6. "Municipality" means any town, city, county or village.
    7. "Treatment" means  any  method,  technique,  or  process  including
  neutralization,  designed to change the physical, chemical or biological
  character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to neutralize such
  waste or as to render such  waste  nonhazardous,  safer  for  transport,
  amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume.
    8.  "Storage"  means  the  containment of hazardous waste, either on a
  temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a  manner  as  not  to
  constitute disposal of such hazardous waste.
    9.  "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.
    10. "Environment" means any water, water  vapor,  any  land  including
  land  surface  or  subsurface,  air, fish, wildlife, biota and all other
  natural resources.
    11. "Preferred hazardous waste management practices  hierarchy"  shall
  mean that policy established in section 27-0105 of this article.