Terms Used In New York Laws > Environmental Conservation > Article 37 > Title 3 - Government Agency Reporting of Toxic Chemical Releases

• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• 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). See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0301
• manufacture: means to produce, prepare, import, or compound a toxic chemical. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0301
• 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. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0301
• 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. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0301
• toxic chemical: means a substance on the list described in 42 U. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0301