§ 72-0501 — Definitions

New York § 72-0501

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law ENV: Environmental Conservation
• Title 5: Waste Transporter Program Fee
• Art. 72: Environmental Regulatory Program Fees

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§ 72-0501. Definitions.\n 1. "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 of 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 nine of article twenty-seven of\nthis chapter; 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 2. "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 3. "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 or waste oil.\n 4. "Septage" means the contents of a septic tank, cesspool or other\nindividual sewage treatment facility which received domestic sewage\nwastes.\n 5. "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 materials in domestic sewage, or solid or\ndissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges\nwhich are point sources subject to permits under article seventeen of\nthis chapter, or source, special nuclear or by-product material as\ndefined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 923)\nexcept as may be provided by existing agreements between the state and\nthe federal governments.\n 6. "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 7. "Regulated medical waste" shall have the same meaning as such term\nis defined in title 15 of article 27 of this chapter.\n