As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
DEC
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation.
ECL
The New York Environmental Conservation Law.
ENVIRONMENT
The physical conditions which will be affected by a proposed
action, including land, air, water, minerals, flora, fauna, noise,
resources of agricultural, archaeological, historic or aesthetic significance,
existing patterns of population concentration, distribution or growth,
existing community or neighborhood character and human health.
HAZARDOUS WASTE
A waste or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity,
concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics
may:
(1)
Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality
or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible
illness; or
(2)
Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health
or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed
or otherwise managed.
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
The systematic control of the collection, resource separation,
storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery and disposal
of hazardous wastes.
INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS WASTE
An industrial waste or combination of wastes, which, because
of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious
characteristics may:
(1)
Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in serious
irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness; and/or
(2)
Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health
or the environment and, therefore, must be segregated and excluded
from the general municipal waste system and sewage collection and
treatment process.
INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT, STORAGE AND DISPOSAL FACILITY
or INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS WASTE TSD FACILITY
A specialized facility or site for the purpose of treating,
storing, compacting, recycling, exchanging or disposing of industrial
hazardous waste materials whether above or below ground or water level,
including but not limited to treatment, compacting, resource recovery
or disposal plants, equipment and furnishings thereof used for the
storage, treatment, compacting, composting, shredding, converting,
utilization, processing or final disposal of hazardous waste, including
but not limited to mechanical, chemical or thermal processing systems,
incinerators, (sanitary) landfills or ashfills whether above or below
ground, other facilities for the storage, reduction or conversion
of hazardous waste, including but not limited to transfer stations,
baling facilities, railroad and maritime facilities, motor trucks
or vehicles and appurtenances, furnishings, equipment and machinery
deemed necessary thereto.
LAND SPREADING FACILITY
A site used for a solid waste management facility and where
sludge, sewage sludge or septage is applied to the soil surface or
ingested into the upper layer of the soil.
PERSON
Any individual, trust, firm, joint-stock company, corporation
(including a government corporation), partnership, association, state,
federal government and any agency thereof, municipality, commission,
political subdivision of a state, any interstate body and any other
legal entity whatsoever.
SEQRA
The New York State Environmental Quality Review Act.
SEWAGE SLUDGE
Any solid, semisolid or liquid waste, generated or deposited
from municipal, private or publicly held corporate sewage treatment
plants.
SITING, CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATING PERMIT
That permit issued by the Town Board which allows a person
to construct or modify a solid, industrial hazardous or hazardous
waste management treatment, storage and disposal facility.
SOLID WASTE
All putrescible and nonputrescible materials or substances
discarded or rejected as being spent, useless, worthless or in excess
to the owners at the time of such discard or rejection, including
but not limited to garbage, refuse, industrial and commercial waste,
sludges from air or water control facilities, rubbish, ashes, contained
gaseous material, incinerator residues, demolition and construction
debris, discarded automobiles and offal, but not including sewage
and other highly diluted water-carried materials or substances and
those in gaseous form.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY
Any facility employed beyond the initial solid waste collection
process for the purpose of treating, storing, compacting, recycling,
exchanging or disposing of solid waste whether above or below ground
or water level, including but not limited to transfer stations, baling
facilities, rail haul facilities, processing systems, including resource
recovery facilities or other facilities for reducing solid waste volume,
landfills or ashfills, plants and facilities for compacting, composting,
disposing or pyrolization of solid wastes, incinerators and other
solid waste disposal, storage, reduction or conversion facilities
whether above or below ground or water level.
TOWN
The Town of Lima, Livingston County, New York.
TOWN BOARD
The Town Board of the Town of Lima, Livingston County, New
York.