2010 New York Code
EXC - Executive
Article 42 - (910 - 923) WATERFRONT REVITALIZATION OF COASTAL AREAS AND INLAND WATERWAYS
911 - Definitions.

§ 911. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall
  have  the  meaning  ascribed  to  them,  unless  the  context  otherwise
  requires:
    1. "Coastal area" shall mean (a) the state's coastal waters,  and  (b)
  the  adjacent  shorelands,  including landlocked waters and subterranean
  waters, to the  extent  such  coastal  waters  and  adjacent  lands  are
  strongly  influenced  by  each  other  including,  but  not  limited to,
  islands, wetlands, beaches,  dunes,  barrier  islands,  cliffs,  bluffs,
  inter-tidal  estuaries and erosion prone areas. The coastal area extends
  to the limit of the state's jurisdiction on the water  side  and  inland
  only  to encompass those shorelands, the uses of which have a direct and
  significant impact on the coastal waters. The  coastal  area  boundaries
  are  as  shown  on  the  coastal  area  map on file in the office of the
  secretary of state as required in section nine hundred fourteen of  this
  article.
    2. "Coastal area boundaries" shall mean the boundaries prepared by the
  secretary  of  state  pursuant  to  section  forty-seven of chapter four
  hundred sixty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy-five.
    3. "Coastal waters" means lakes Erie and Ontario, the St. Lawrence and
  Niagara rivers, the Hudson river south of the federal dam at  Troy,  the
  East  river,  the  Harlem river, the Kill von Kull and Arthur Kill, Long
  Island sound and the Atlantic ocean, and their connecting water  bodies,
  bays, harbors, shallows and marshes.
    4.  "Inland  waterways"  shall mean (a) the state's major inland lakes
  consisting of lakes Big Tupper, Black, Canandaigua,  Cayuga,  Champlain,
  Chautauqua,   Conesus,  Cranberry,  George,  Great  Sacandaga,  Honoeye,
  Indian, Keuka, Long, Mirror, Oneida, Onondaga, Otisco,  Otsego,  Owasco,
  Placid,  Raquette,  Ronkonkoma,  Sacandaga,  Saratoga,  Schroon, Seneca,
  Skaneateles, Silver (in the county of  Wyoming)  and  Saranac,  and  the
  Fulton  chain  of  lakes;  (b) the state's major rivers comprised of the
  Ausable, Black, Boquet, Canisteo,  Chaumont  (including  Chaumont  bay),
  Chemung,  Cohocton, Delaware, Deer, Genesee, Grasse, Hudson north of the
  federal dam at Troy, Indian, Little (in  the  Adirondack  park),  Little
  Salmon  (including  north  and  south  branches), Mad, Mettowee, Mohawk,
  Oswegatchie,  Racquette,  Salmon,  Saranac,   Susquehanna,   Tioga   and
  Tioughnioga  rivers,  and  the  north  and  middle branches of the Moose
  river;  (c)  the  state's  major  creeks  comprised  of  the   Bushkill,
  Cincinnati, East Kill, Esopus (including upper and lower branches), Fish
  (including  east and west branches), Gooseberry, Little Sandy, Onondaga,
  Sandy, Schoharie, South Sandy, Oatka and Tonawanda and  West  Kill;  (d)
  the  Barge  Canal System as defined in section two of the canal law; and
  (e) the adjacent shorelands to the extent that such  inland  waters  and
  adjacent  lands are strongly influenced by each other including, but not
  limited to, islands, wetlands, beaches, dunes, barrier islands,  cliffs,
  bluffs and erosion prone areas.
    5.  "State  agency"  means  any department, bureau, commission, board,
  public authority or other agency of  the  state,  including  any  public
  benefit corporation any member of which is appointed by the governor.
    6. "Comprehensive harbor management plan" shall mean a plan to address
  the  problems  of  conflict, congestion and competition for space in the
  use of harbors, surface waters and underwater lands of the state  within
  a  city,  town  or  village  or  abounding  a city, town or village to a
  distance of fifteen hundred feet from shore. A  harbor  management  plan
  must  consider  regional  needs and, where applicable, must consider the
  competing  needs  of  commercial  shipping  and  recreational   boating,
  commercial  and  recreational  fishing and shellfishing, aquaculture and
  waste  management,  mineral   extraction,   dredging,   public   access,
  recreation,   habitat  and  other  natural  resource  protection,  water

quality, open  space,  aesthetic  values  and  common  law  riparian  or
  littoral rights, and the public interest in such lands underwater.
    7. "Water dependent use" means an activity which can only be conducted
  on,  in, over or adjacent to a water body because such activity requires
  direct access to that water body, and which  involves,  as  an  integral
  part of such activity, the use of the water.