N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1115 – Aid to local governments
§ 27-1115. Aid to local governments.
Terms Used In N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1115
- Disposal: means the abandonment, discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any substance so that such substance or any related constituent thereof may enter the environment. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1101
- Industrial hazardous waste: shall mean an industrial waste or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may:
a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1101 - Storage: means the containment of hazardous waste, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such hazardous waste. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1101
- Treatment: means any method, technique, or process including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to neutralize such waste or as to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1101
No later than the first day of April, nineteen hundred eighty-eight, the department shall submit to the legislature and the governor a report recommending appropriate forms of state aid or assistance to local governmental units within the boundaries of which any industrial hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities subject to this title may be located. Such report shall be developed by the department and shall:
1. describe the nature of the probable impacts upon local governmental units of such facilities;
2. describe the possible forms or kinds of state or other aid or assistance which might be appropriate to mitigate or provide off-setting benefits with respect to each of the kinds of probable impacts on local governmental units identified pursuant to this section; and
3. set forth the department's specific recommendations to the legislature and the governor for the forms of kinds of state or other aid or assistance to local governmental units to mitigate or provide off-setting benefits with respect to such impacts, together with the reasons for the department's specific recommendations.