N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0911 – Standards applicable to owners and operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities
§ 27-0911. Standards applicable to owners and operators of hazardous
Terms Used In N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0911
- Administrator: means the administrator of the federal environmental protection agency. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
- 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 27-0901
- 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 27-0901
- Hazardous waste: means a 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 27-0901 - Manifest: means the form used for identifying the quantity, composition, and the origin, routing, and destination of hazardous waste during its transportation from the point of generation to the point of disposal, treatment, or storage. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
- 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 27-0901
- 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 27-0901
- 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 section four hundred two of the federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (86 Stat. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 27-0901
waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities.
1. Standards applicable to owners and operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities shall be those established in title seven of this article, and the regulations promulgated thereunder, shall be consistent with comparable standards promulgated by the administrator pursuant to RCRA, and shall also include compliance with the manifest system established in section 27-0905 of this title. Where appropriate and consistent with the provisions of RCRA, such standards may authorize the granting of exemptions from requirements, or variances in requirements, according to criteria established therein.
2. Such standards shall require corrective action, including corrective action beyond the facility boundary where necessary to protect human health and the environment, for all releases of hazardous waste or constituents from any solid waste management unit at a treatment, storage or disposal facility seeking a permit under section 27-0913 of this title, regardless of the time at which waste was placed in such unit.