N.Y. ENV Law § 27-0501

§ 27-0501. Definitions.\n 1. "Collection system development program" means a comprehensive\nreview of existing solid waste collection practices and the development\nof designs for efficient and cost-effective systems for the systematic\ncollection of solid waste of one or more municipalities or any portion\nthereof.\n 2. "Preparation of contract documents" means the preparation of\ndocuments for entering into contracts for (a) the design, construction,\noperation, financing, ownership or maintenance of a solid waste\nmanagement facility; (b) a system of collection and disposal of\nmunicipal solid waste through resource recovery; and (c) the marketing\nof materials and energy recovered from solid waste. Such documents may\ninclude detailed construction plans and specifications, bid\nadvertisements, requests for proposals and reports evaluating bids and\nproposals.\n 3. "Implementation feasibility project" means the investigation and\nevaluation of any one or more of the following: engineering, economic,\nenvironmental, technological, administrative, institutional, social and\npolitical factors affecting the acceptability of a solid waste\nmanagement facility or system of which the facility is part for the\npurpose of determining the feasibility of constructing such proposed\nfacility or establishing such system.\n 4. "Municipality" means a village, town, city or county or any\ndesignated agency thereof, or any two or more of the foregoing which are\nacting jointly in connection with a solid waste management facility, a\nsolid waste management district, or a public benefit corporation having\npower granted otherwise than under this article to construct, operate\nand maintain a solid waste management facility, including a public\ncorporation created pursuant to agreement or compact with another state.\n 5. "Recycling center" means a community-based facility where separated\nsolid waste can be stored, assembled and prepared for sale or other\ndisposition.\n 6. "Resource recovery" means the separation, extraction and recovery\nof useable materials, energy or heat from solid waste through source\nseparation, recycling centers or other programs, projects or facilities.\n 7. "Solid waste" means all materials or substances discarded or\nrejected as being spent, useless, worthless, or in excess to the owners\nat the time of such discard or rejection, including but not limited to\ngarbage, refuse, industrial and commercial waste, sludges from air or\nwater pollution control facilities or water supply treatment facilities,\nrubbish, ashes, contained gaseous material, incinerator residue,\ndemolition and construction debris and offal, but not including sewage\nand other highly diluted water-carried materials or substances and those\nin gaseous form.\n 8. "Solid waste management facility" means any facility employed\nbeyond the initial solid waste collection process, including but not\nlimited to recycling centers, transfer stations, baling facilities, rail\nhaul or barge haul facilities, processing systems, including resource\nrecovery facilities or other facilities for reducing solid waste volume,\nsanitary landfills, plants and facilities for compacting, composting or\npyrolization of solid waste, incinerators and other solid waste\ndisposal, reduction or conversion facilities.\n 9. "Source separation" means the segregation of recyclable materials\nfrom the solid waste stream at the point of generation for separate\ncollection, sale or other disposition.\n 10. "Secondary materials" means those commodities that have been\nreclaimed for reuse and are used in place of a primary or raw material\nin manufacturing a product.\n