N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1316 – Citizen technical assistance grants
§ 27-1316. Citizen technical assistance grants.
Terms Used In N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1316
- 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.
- 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 27-1301
- Environment: means any water, water vapor, any land including land surface or subsurface, air, fish, wildlife, biota and all other natural resources. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301
- Hazardous waste: means a waste which appears on the list or satisfies the characteristics promulgated by the commissioner pursuant to section 27-0903 of this article and any substance which appears on the list promulgated pursuant to section 37-0103 of this chapter; provided, however, that the term "hazardous waste" does not include:
a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301 - Inactive hazardous waste disposal site: means any area or structure used for the long term storage or final placement of hazardous waste including, but not limited to, dumps, landfills, lagoons and artificial treatment ponds, as to which area or structure no permit or authorization issued by the department or a federal agency for the disposal of hazardous waste was in effect after the effective date of this title and any inactive area or structure on the National Priorities List established under the authority of 42 U. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301
- Inactive hazardous waste disposal site remedial program: means activities undertaken to eliminate, remove, abate, control or monitor health and/or environmental hazards or potential hazards in connection with inactive hazardous waste disposal sites or to treat or dispose of wastes and waste contaminated materials from such sites including, but not limited to, grading, contouring, trenching, grouting, capping, excavation, transporting, incineration, chemical treatment, biological treatment or construction of leachate collection and treatment facilities. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301
- Person: means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, limited liability company, corporation, joint venture, partnership, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state, public benefit corporation or any interstate body. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301
- Waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, whether or not such material may eventually be used for some other purpose, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations or from community activities, and source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, except as may be provided by existing agreements between the state of New York and the government of the United States, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under article seventeen of this chapter. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-1301
1. The commissioner is authorized to provide, or order a person acting under order or on consent, to provide grants to any not-for-profit corporation exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code who may be affected by an inactive hazardous waste disposal site remedial program. To qualify to receive such assistance, a community group must demonstrate that its membership represents the interests of the community affected by such site, and that members' health, economic well-being or enjoyment of the environment are potentially affected by such site. Such grants shall be known as technical assistance grants and may be used to obtain technical assistance in interpreting information with regard to the nature of the hazard posed by hazardous waste located at or emanating from an inactive hazardous waste disposal site or sites and the development and implementation of an inactive hazardous waste disposal site remedial program or programs. Such grants may also be used:
(a) to advise affected residents on any health assessment; and
(b) for training funds for the education of interested affected community members to enable them to more effectively participate in the remedy selection process.
Grants awarded under this section may not be used for the purposes of collecting field sampling data, political activity or lobbying legislative bodies.
2. The amount of any grant awarded under this section may not exceed fifty thousand dollars at any one site.
3. No matching contribution from the grant recipient shall be required for a technical assistance grant. Following a grant award, a portion of the grant shall be made available to the grant recipient, in advance of the expenditures to be covered by the grant, in five thousand dollar installments.