New York § 37-0301 Definitions

New York Statutes

§ 37-0301 — Definitions

New York § 37-0301

Law ENVEnvironmental Conservation

Title 3Government Agency Reporting of Toxic Chemical Releases

Art. 37Substances Hazardous or Acutely Hazardous to Public Health, Safety or the Environment

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N.Y. Environmental Conservation § 37-0301 (2026).

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§ 37-0301. Definitions.\n  As used in this title, the following terms shall have the following\nmeanings:\n  1. "Facility" means all buildings, equipment, structures, and other\nstationary items located on a single site or adjacent sites and owned or\noperated by the same person (or by any person who controls, is\ncontrolled by, or is under common control with, such person).\n  2. "State agency" means:\n  (a) each state department;\n  (b) division of military and naval affairs, division of state police,\ndivision of housing and community renewal, division for youth, office of\ngeneral services, office of parks, recreation and historic preservation,\nand state university of New York;\n  (c) any division, board, commission, office, or bureau of any state\ndepartment which is required to obta

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§ 37-0301. Definitions.\n As used in this title, the following terms shall have the following\nmeanings:\n 1. "Facility" means all buildings, equipment, structures, and other\nstationary items located on a single site or adjacent sites and owned or\noperated by the same person (or by any person who controls, is\ncontrolled by, or is under common control with, such person).\n 2. "State agency" means:\n (a) each state department;\n (b) division of military and naval affairs, division of state police,\ndivision of housing and community renewal, division for youth, office of\ngeneral services, office of parks, recreation and historic preservation,\nand state university of New York;\n (c) any division, board, commission, office, or bureau of any state\ndepartment which is required to obtain a permit issued by the department\nor which undertakes an activity for which it must register with the\ndepartment; and\n (d) dormitory authority of the state of New York, facilities\ndevelopment corporation, metropolitan transportation authority\n(including the operations of all of its operating units), New York state\nenergy research and development authority, New York state environmental\nfacilities corporation, New York state olympic regional development\nauthority, New York state thruway authority, New York state urban\ndevelopment corporation, port authority of New York and New Jersey, and\npower authority of the state of New York.\n 3. The term "manufacture" means to produce, prepare, import, or\ncompound a toxic chemical.\n 4. The term "process" means the preparation of a toxic chemical, after\nits manufacture, for distribution in commerce in the same form or\nphysical state as, or in a different form or physical state from, that\nin which it was received by the person so preparing such chemical, or as\npart of an article containing the toxic chemical.\n 5. The term "release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,\nemitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping,\nor disposing into the environment (including the abandonment or\ndiscarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles) of any\nhazardous chemical, extremely hazardous substance, or toxic chemical.\n 6. The term "toxic chemical" means a substance on the list described\nin 42 U.S.C. § 11023(c).\n