N.Y.
Public Authorities Law Section 1285-G
Industrial materials recycling program
1.
Applicability. It is the purpose of this section to establish a program within the corporation to encourage the reduction, recovery and recycling of industrial materials otherwise requiring disposal.2.
Definitions. When used in this section, unless another meaning clearly appears from its context:a.
“Hazardous waste” means a waste which appears on the list or satisfied the criteria promulgated by the commissioner of environmental conservation pursuant to Environmental Conservation Law § 27-0903 (Identification and listing of hazardous waste)section 27-0903 of the environmental conservation law and until, but not after, the promulgation of such list and criteria means a waste or combination of wastes, which because of its quality, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may:(i)
cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness; or(ii)
pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed or otherwise managed.b.
“Industrial solid waste” means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, mining and agricultural operations as a result of a commercial or industrial process but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under article seventeen of the environmental conservation law, or source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended except as may be provided by existing agreements between the state of New York and the government of the United States.c.
“Industrial material” means hazardous waste and industrial solid waste.d.
“Recovery and recycling” means any method or technique utilized to separate, process, modify, convert, treat, or otherwise prepare industrial materials so that component materials or substances may be used as raw materials or energy sources.e.
“Person” means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state, or any interstate body.f.
“Generator” means a person whose industrial activities produce industrial material. 3
Source:
Section 1285-G — Industrial materials recycling program, https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PBA/1285-G (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Oct. 26, 2024).
