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• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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 27-0303
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• 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 27-0303
• 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}
• Industrial-commercial waste: means a waste which originates at, is generated by, or occurs as a result of any industrial or commercial activity. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Low-level radioactive waste: means radioactive material that:
  
  a. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means any individual, public or private corporation, political subdivision, government agency, department or bureau of the state or federal government, municipality, industry, co-partnership, association, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Regulated waste: means any one of the following types of waste: raw sewage, septage, sludge from a sewage or water supply treatment plant, industrial-commercial waste, low-level radioactive waste as defined in subdivision nine of this section, waste tires or waste oil. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• secondary materials: shall mean material recovered from or otherwise destined for the waste stream, including but not limited to, post-consumer material, industrial scrap material and overstock or obsolete inventories from distributors, wholesalers and other companies as defined in rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner of economic development in consultation with the commissioner but such term does not include those materials and by-products generated from, and commonly reused within, an original manufacturing process. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0401
• Septage: means the contents of a septic tank, cesspool or other individual sewage treatment facility which receives domestic sewage wastes. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Storage: means the holding of waste for a temporary period, at the end of which the waste is processed, recovered, disposed of, or stored elsewhere. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining and agricultural operations and from community activities, 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 17 of this chapter, or source, special nuclear or by-product material as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Waste oil: means used engine lubricating oil and any other oil, including but not limited to, fuel oil, motor oil, gear oil, cutting oil, transmission fluid, hydraulic fluid, dielectric fluid, oil storage tank residue, animal oil, and vegetable oil, which has been contaminated by physical or chemical impurities, through use or accident, and has not subsequently been rerefined. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303
• Waste tires: shall mean waste tires transported for a fee for the purpose of reuse, recycling or disposal, except those tires collected and transported incidental to the collection and transportation of solid waste. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0303