Terms Used In New York Laws > Environmental Conservation > Article 56 > Title 4 - Solid Waste Projects

• Adirondack landfill project: means a project undertaken by the state and a municipality or municipalities, where such project has the effect of eliminating the potential for the disposal of waste originating outside the Adirondack park at a municipal solid waste landfill located within the Adirondack park. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0403
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Cost: means the cost of an approved project, which shall include appraisal, surveying, engineering and architectural services, plans and specifications, consultant and legal services, construction and other direct expenses incident to such project less any federal or state funds, other than those provided pursuant to this article, for such project received or to be received. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• 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 56-0101
• Governing body: means :
  
  (a) in the case of a county outside of the city of New York, the county board of supervisors or other elective governing body;
  
  (b) in the case of a city or village, the local legislative body thereof, as the term is defined in the municipal home rule law;
  
  (c) in the case of a town, the town board;
  
  (d) in the case of a school district, the board of education thereof;
  
  (e) in the case of a supervisory district, the board of cooperative educational services thereof;
  
  (f) in the case of a public benefit corporation, the board of directors, members or trustees thereof;
  
  (g) in the case of a public authority, the governing board of directors, members, or trustees thereof;
  
  (h) in the case of a not-for-profit corporation, the board of directors thereof or such other body designated in the certificate of incorporation to manage the corporation; and
  
  (i) in the case of an Indian tribe, any governing body recognized by the United States or the state of New York. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• Landfill: means a disposal facility or part of one at which solid waste, or its residue after treatment, is intentionally placed in or on land, and at which solid waste will remain after closure and which is not a land spreading facility, a surface impoundment, or an injection well. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0403
• Landfill gas management system: means a system for the control, capture, and management of gas created within and emitted from a solid waste landfill. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0403
• 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}
• Municipal landfill closure project: means activities undertaken to close, including by reclamation, a landfill owned or operated by a municipality to achieve compliance with regulations promulgated by the department, or activities undertaken to implement a landfill gas management system project. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0403
• Municipality: means a local public authority or public benefit corporation, a county, city, town, village, school district, supervisory district, district corporation, improvement district within a county, city, town or village, or Indian nation or tribe recognized by the state or the United States with a reservation wholly or partly within the boundaries of New York state, or any combination thereof. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 56-0101
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.