§ 27-0303 — Definitions

New York § 27-0303

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law ENV: Environmental Conservation
• Title 3: Waste Transporter Permits
• Art. 27: Reduction, Collection, Reuse, Recycling, Treatment and Disposal of Solid Waste

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§ 27-0303. Definitions.\n When used in this title:\n 1. "Disposal" means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection,\ndumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any substance so that such\nsubstance or any related constituent thereof may enter the environment.\nDisposal also means the thermal destruction of waste or hazardous waste\nand the burning of such wastes as fuel for the purpose of recovering\nuseable energy.\n 2. "Industrial-commercial waste" means a waste which originates at, is\ngenerated by, or occurs as a result of any industrial or commercial\nactivity. The forms of waste included are exemplified by but not limited\nto the following:\n a. liquids such as: acids, alkalis, caustics, leachate, petroleum (and\nits derivatives), and process or treatment wastewaters;\n b. sludges which are semisolid substances resulting from process or\ntreatment operations, or residues from storage or use of liquids;\n c. solids such as: solidified chemicals, paints or pigments; the end\nor by-products of incineration ash; foundry sand; dredge spoil;\n d. contained gaseous materials;\n e. hazardous waste as defined in title 9 of this article; and\n f. any liquid, sludge, septage, solid, semisolid substance or\ncontained gaseous material in which any of the foregoing is intermixed\nor absorbed, or onto which any of the foregoing is adhered.\n 3. "Person" means any individual, public or private corporation,\npolitical subdivision, government agency, department or bureau of the\nstate or federal government, municipality, industry, co-partnership,\nassociation, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity.\n 4. "Regulated waste" means any one of the following types of waste:\nraw sewage, septage, sludge from a sewage or water supply treatment\nplant, industrial-commercial waste, low-level radioactive waste as\ndefined in subdivision nine of this section, waste tires or waste oil.\n 5. "Septage" means the contents of a septic tank, cesspool or other\nindividual sewage treatment facility which receives domestic sewage\nwastes.\n 6. "Storage" means the holding of waste for a temporary period, at the\nend of which the waste is processed, recovered, disposed of, or stored\nelsewhere.\n 7. "Waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment\nplant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility,\nand other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or\ncontained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining\nand agricultural operations and from community activities, but does not\ninclude solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or\ndissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges\nwhich are point sources subject to permits under article 17 of this\nchapter, or source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined in\nthe Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 923) except as may\nbe provided by existing agreements between the state and the federal\ngovernment.\n 8. "Waste oil" means used engine lubricating oil and any other oil,\nincluding but not limited to, fuel oil, motor oil, gear oil, cutting\noil, transmission fluid, hydraulic fluid, dielectric fluid, oil storage\ntank residue, animal oil, and vegetable oil, which has been contaminated\nby physical or chemical impurities, through use or accident, and has not\nsubsequently been rerefined.\n * 9. "Low-level radioactive waste" means radioactive material that:\n a. is not high-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent\nnuclear fuel, or the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or\nconcentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for\nits source material content; and\n b. the United States nuclear regulatory commission, consistent with\nfederal law and in accordance with paragraph a of this subdivision,\nclassifies as low-level radioactive waste.\n * NB There are 2 sb 9's\n * 9. "Environment" means any water, water vapor, any land including\nland surface or subsurface, air, fish, wildlife, biota and all other\nnatural resources.\n * NB There are 2 sb 9's\n 11. "Regulated medical waste" shall have the same meaning as such term\nis defined in title 15 of this article.\n 12. "Waste tires" shall mean waste tires transported for a fee for the\npurpose of reuse, recycling or disposal, except those tires collected\nand transported incidental to the collection and transportation of solid\nwaste.\n