Terms Used In New York Laws > Environmental Conservation > Article 54 > Title 7 - Municipal Waste Reduction or Recycling Projects

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of environmental conservation; except that within and for the purposes of the projects undertaken by the office pursuant to title nine of this article, the term shall mean the commissioner of the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Cost: means the capital cost of a municipal recycling project including engineering and architectural services, surveys, plans and specifications; consultant and legal services; lands acquired pursuant to the conditions set forth in section 54-0709 of this title, and other direct capital expenses incident to such a project, less any federal assistance or other assistance received or to be received. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0701
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Federal assistance: means funds available, other than by loan, from the federal government, either directly or through allocation by the state for construction or program purposes pursuant to any federal law or program. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101
• Governing body: means :
  
  a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101
• Household hazardous waste: shall mean solid waste emanating from households (including single and multiple residences, hotels and motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, campgrounds, picnic grounds and day-use recreation areas) which but for their point of generation, would be a hazardous waste under title 9 of article 27 of this chapter or a "pesticide" as defined in article 33 of this chapter. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0701
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Municipality: means a local public authority or public benefit corporation, a county, city, town, village, or Indian tribe or nation residing within New York state, or any combination thereof. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0101
• Recyclables recovery equipment: means structures, machinery or devices, singly or in combination, designed, constructed and required primarily to separate, process, modify, convert, treat, or prepare collected solid waste, which is included as part of a recyclables recovery program so that component materials or substances or recoverable resources may be used as a raw material for new products or for useful purposes other than for energy recovery, and for the collection and preparation for disposal of household hazardous waste. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0701
• Recyclables recovery program: means a program undertaken by a municipality consistent with requirements of § 120 of the general municipal law to provide for the environmentally sound recovery of recyclables, primarily involving the collection, aggregation and processing of recyclable materials for their use as raw materials for new products or for other useful purposes other than for energy recovery, through facilities planned, designed and constructed to ensure environmental protection and to maximize the potential for recyclables recovery. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0701
• Recycling project: means recyclables recovery equipment, source separation equipment, a recyclables recovery program or any combination thereof required by a recyclables recovery program and the reimbursement to municipalities and not-for-profit corporations, as such terms are defined in section 54-0101 of this article, for the cost of a redemption center as defined in section 27-1003 of this chapter. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0701
• Source separation equipment: means municipally-owned:
  
  a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0701
• Waste reduction projects: means projects undertaken to reduce the volume or toxicity of material entering the municipal solid waste stream, by reducing the volume or toxicity of such material at the point of generation. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 54-0701