Legislation
SECTION 37-0301
Definitions
Environmental Conservation (ENV) CHAPTER 43-B, ARTICLE 37, TITLE 3
§ 37-0301. Definitions.
As used in this title, the following terms shall have the following
meanings:
1. "Facility" means all buildings, equipment, structures, and other
stationary items located on a single site or adjacent sites and owned or
operated by the same person (or by any person who controls, is
controlled by, or is under common control with, such person).
2. "State agency" means:
(a) each state department;
(b) division of military and naval affairs, division of state police,
division of housing and community renewal, division for youth, office of
general services, office of parks, recreation and historic preservation,
and state university of New York;
(c) any division, board, commission, office, or bureau of any state
department which is required to obtain a permit issued by the department
or which undertakes an activity for which it must register with the
department; and
(d) dormitory authority of the state of New York, facilities
development corporation, metropolitan transportation authority
(including the operations of all of its operating units), New York state
energy research and development authority, New York state environmental
facilities corporation, New York state olympic regional development
authority, New York state thruway authority, New York state urban
development corporation, port authority of New York and New Jersey, and
power authority of the state of New York.
3. The term "manufacture" means to produce, prepare, import, or
compound a toxic chemical.
4. The term "process" means the preparation of a toxic chemical, after
its manufacture, for distribution in commerce in the same form or
physical state as, or in a different form or physical state from, that
in which it was received by the person so preparing such chemical, or as
part of an article containing the toxic chemical.
5. The term "release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,
emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping,
or disposing into the environment (including the abandonment or
discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles) of any
hazardous chemical, extremely hazardous substance, or toxic chemical.
6. The term "toxic chemical" means a substance on the list described
in 42 U.S.C. § 11023(c).
As used in this title, the following terms shall have the following
meanings:
1. "Facility" means all buildings, equipment, structures, and other
stationary items located on a single site or adjacent sites and owned or
operated by the same person (or by any person who controls, is
controlled by, or is under common control with, such person).
2. "State agency" means:
(a) each state department;
(b) division of military and naval affairs, division of state police,
division of housing and community renewal, division for youth, office of
general services, office of parks, recreation and historic preservation,
and state university of New York;
(c) any division, board, commission, office, or bureau of any state
department which is required to obtain a permit issued by the department
or which undertakes an activity for which it must register with the
department; and
(d) dormitory authority of the state of New York, facilities
development corporation, metropolitan transportation authority
(including the operations of all of its operating units), New York state
energy research and development authority, New York state environmental
facilities corporation, New York state olympic regional development
authority, New York state thruway authority, New York state urban
development corporation, port authority of New York and New Jersey, and
power authority of the state of New York.
3. The term "manufacture" means to produce, prepare, import, or
compound a toxic chemical.
4. The term "process" means the preparation of a toxic chemical, after
its manufacture, for distribution in commerce in the same form or
physical state as, or in a different form or physical state from, that
in which it was received by the person so preparing such chemical, or as
part of an article containing the toxic chemical.
5. The term "release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,
emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping,
or disposing into the environment (including the abandonment or
discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles) of any
hazardous chemical, extremely hazardous substance, or toxic chemical.
6. The term "toxic chemical" means a substance on the list described
in 42 U.S.C. § 11023(c).