N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 19-0915 – Emission offsets or credits
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§ 19-0915. Emission offsets or credits.
Terms Used In N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 19-0915
- Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
- Emission: means the release of acid deposition precursors into the atmosphere from any facility or stationary source. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 19-0903
- facility: means a steam electric generating facility with a generating capacity of fifty thousand kilowatts or more which burns fossil fuel. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 19-0903
- Sensitive receptor areas: means regions of the state, encompassing geographically significant land areas not wholly contained within any county, that the department determines to be susceptible to the impacts of acid deposition based upon:
a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 19-0903 - Stationary source: means any source other than major steam electric generating facilities that emits acid deposition precursors in excess of one hundred tons per year. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 19-0903
For the purposes of determining the attainment of, or compliance with, the emission controls or reductions required by this article, or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder, the department shall allow offsets of greater emissions of acid deposition precursors from a facility or stationary source against lower emissions from the same or another facility or stationary source within the state. Any such offsets or credits shall be adjusted to reflect the proximity of the subject facility or stationary source to sensitive receptor areas.