* § 1901. Definitions. As used in this title, the following terms
shall have the following meanings:

1. "Authority" shall have the same meaning as in subdivision two of
section eighteen hundred fifty-one of this article.

2. "Commission" shall mean the public service commission.

3. "Departments" shall mean the department of environmental
conservation, the department of agriculture and markets, the department
of economic development and the department of public service.

4. "Environmental justice area" shall mean a minority or low-income
community that may bear a disproportionate share of the negative
environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and
commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and
tribal programs and policies.

5. "Host community" shall mean any municipality within which a major
renewable energy facility or qualified energy storage system, or any
portion thereof, has been proposed for development.

6. "Renewable energy facility" shall have the same meaning as
renewable energy systems defined in section sixty-six-p of the public
service law.

7. "Municipality" shall mean a county, city, town or village or
political subdivision.

8. "Build-ready site" shall mean a site for which the authority has
secured permits, property interests, agreements and/or other
authorizations necessary to offer such site for further development,
construction and operation of a renewable energy facility, with or
without a paired qualified energy storage system, or a stand-alone
qualified energy storage system, in accordance with the other provisions
of this title.

9. "Qualified energy storage system" shall have the same meaning as
qualified energy storage system defined in section seventy-four of the
public service law.

* NB Repealed December 31, 2030