Definitions
CLCPA
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
CLCPA
- Allowance
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means an authorization to emit, during a specified year, up to one ton of carbon dioxide equivalent
CLCPA
- Carbon dioxide equivalent
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means the amount of carbon dioxide by mass that would produce the same global warming impact as a given mass of another greenhouse gas over an integrated twenty-year time frame after emission.
CLCPA
- Co-pollutants
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means hazardous air pollutants produced by greenhouse gas emissions sources.
CLCPA
- Council
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means the New York State Climate Action Council established pursuant to section 75-0103 of this article.
CLCPA
- Disadvantaged communities
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means communities that bear burdens of negative public health effects, environmental pollution, impacts of climate change, and possess certain socioeconomic criteria, or comprise high-concentrations of low- and moderate- income households, as identified pursuant to section 75-0111 of this article.
CLCPA
- Emissions reduction measures
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means programs, measure, and standards, authorized pursuant to this chapter, applicable to sources or categories of sources, that are designed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
CLCPA
- Greenhouse gas
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride, and any other substance emitted into the air that may be reasonably anticipated to cause or contribute to anthropogenic climate change.
CLCPA
- Greenhouse gas emission limit
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means the maximum allowable level of statewide greenhouse gas emissions, in a specified year, expressed in tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, as determined by the Department pursuant to this article.
CLCPA
- Greenhouse gas emission offset
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means a deduction representing one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, reduced, avoided, or sequestered by a greenhouse gas emission offset project from a measured baseline of emissions pursuant to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions report.
CLCPA
- Greenhouse gas emission offset projects
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means one or more projects, including:
CLCPA
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- a. Natural carbon sinks including but not limited to afforestation, reforestation, or wetlands restoration;
CLCPA
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- b. Greening infrastructure;
CLCPA
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- c. Restoration and sustainable management of natural and urban forests or working lands, grasslands, coastal wetlands, and subtidal habitats;
CLCPA
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- d. Efforts to reduce hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant, sulfur hexafluoride and other ozone depleting substance releases;
CLCPA
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- e. Anaerobic digesters, where energy produced is directed toward localized use;
CLCPA
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- f. Carbon capture and sequestration;
CLCPA
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- g. Ecosystem restoration; and
CLCPA
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- h. Other types of projects recommended by The Climate Action Council in consultation with the Climate Justice Working Group that provide public health and environmental benefits, and do not create burdens in disadvantaged communities.
CLCPA
- Greenhouse gas emission source or source
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means any anthropogenic source or category of anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gas emissions, determined by the Department:
CLCPA
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- a. whose participation in the program will enable the Department to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and,
CLCPA
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- b. that are capable of being monitored for compliance.
CLCPA
- Leakage
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means a reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases within the state that is offset by an increase in emissions of greenhouse gases outside of the state.
CLCPA
- Statewide greenhouse gas emissions
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means the total annual emissions of greenhouse gases produced within the state from anthropogenic sources and greenhouse gases produced outside of the state that are associated with the generation of electricity imported into the state and the extraction and transmission of fossil fuels imported into the state. Statewide emissions shall be expressed in tons of carbon dioxide equivalents.
CLCPA
- Statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit or statewide emissions limit
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- means the maximum allowable level of statewide greenhouse gas emissions in a specified year, as determined by the Department pursuant to this article.
CLCPA
- Environmental justice advisory group
Definitions provided by ECL § 75-0101:
- shall mean the permanent Environmental Justice Advisory Group established by a chapter of the laws of two thousand nineteen amending the environmental conservation law relating to establishing a permanent Environmental Justice Advisory Group and an environmental justice interagency coordinating council, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2385 and A. 1564.
EJ LAW
- Advisory group
Definitions provided by ECL § 48-0103:
- means the permanent environmental justice advisory group established by section 48-0105 of this article.
EJ LAW
- Agency
Definitions provided by ECL § 48-0103:
- means any department, board, bureau, commission, division, office, council, committee or officer of the state, or any public authority or public benefit corporation at least one of whose members is appointed by the governor.
EJ LAW
- Environmental justice
Definitions provided by ECL § 48-0103:
- means the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, religion, national origin or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of laws, regulations and policies affecting the quality of the environment.
EJ LAW
- Fair treatment
Definitions provided by ECL § 48-0103:
- means that no group of people, including a racial, ethnic or socioeconomic group, should be disproportionately exposed to consequences resulting from industrial, municipal and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local and tribal programs and policies, and further means that no such group of people should suffer from inequitable allocation of public resources or financial assistance for environmental protection and stewardship, including environmental remediation, pollution prevention, open space acquisition and other protection and stewardship activities.
EJ LAW
- Meaningful involvement
Definitions provided by ECL § 48-0103:
- means the provision of opportunities for citizen participation in decision making that are as reflective of the diversity of interests and perspective found within the affected community as possible, including those of racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups; that are provided as early as possible in the decision making process prior to the selection of a preferred course of action by a decision making agency or agencies; that provide full, timely and accessible disclosure and sharing of information by the government agency or agencies involved, including the provision of technical data and the assumptions upon which any analyses are based; and that allow all people, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin or income, the opportunity to have their views heard and considered, including opportunities for two-way dialogue.
AREGCB
- Executive director or director
Definitions provided by Executive Law
§ 94-c(2):
- shall mean the executive director of the office of renewable energy siting.
AREGCB
- CLCPA targets
Definitions provided by Executive Law
§ 94-c(2):
- shall mean the public policies established in theclimate leadership and community protection act enacted in chapter onehundred six of the laws of two thousand nineteen, including the requirement that a minimum of seventy percent of the statewide electric generation be produced by renewable energy systems by two thousand thirty, that by the year two thousand forty the statewide electrical demand system will generate zero emissions and the procurement of at least nine gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by two thousand thirty-five, six gigawatts of photovoltaic solar generation by two thousand twenty-five and to support three gigawatts of statewide energy storage capacity by two thousand thirty.
AREGCB
- Local agency account or account
Definitions provided by Executive Law
§ 94-c(2):
- shall mean the account established by the office pursuant to subdivision seven of this section.
AREGCB
- Local agency
Definitions provided by Executive Law
§ 94-c(2):
- means any local agency, board, district, commission or governing body, including any city, county, and other political subdivision of the state.
AREGCB
- Municipality
Definitions provided by Executive Law
§ 94-c(2):
- shall mean a county, city, town, or village.
AREGCB
- Office
Definitions provided by Executive Law
§ 94-c(2):
- shall mean the office of renewable energy siting established pursuant to this section.
AREGCB
- Department
Definitions provided by Executive Law
§ 94-c(2):
- shall mean the department of state.
AREGCB
- Major renewable energy facility
Definitions provided by Executive Law
§ 94-c(2):
- means any renewable energy system, as such term is defined in section sixty-six-p of the public service law as added by chapter one hundred six of the laws of two thousand nineteen, with a nameplate generating capacity of twenty-five thousand kilowatts or more, and any co-located system storing energy generated from such a renewable energy system prior to delivering it to the bulk transmission system, including all associated appurtenances to electric plants as defined under section two of the public service law, including electric transmission facilities less than ten miles in length in order to provide access to load and to integrate such facilities into the state's bulk electric transmission system.
AREGCB
- Siting permit
Definitions provided by Executive Law
§ 94-c(2):
- shall mean the major renewable energy facility siting permit established pursuant to this section and the rules and regulations promulgated by the office.
AREGCB
- Dormant electric generating site
Definitions provided by Executive Law
§ 94-c(2):
- shall mean a site at which one or more electric generating facilities produced electricity but has permanently ceased operating.
CRRA
- Relevant definitions provided by ECL §1-0303:
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- 1. "Commissioner" means The Commissioner of Environmental Conservation; except that within and for the purposes of the projects undertaken by the office pursuant to title nine of this article, the term means The Commissioner of the NYS OPRHP.
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- 2. "Cost" means the cost of an approved project, which includes engineering and architectural services, plans and specifications, consultant and legal services, and other direct expenses incident to such project less any federal assistance received or to be received and any other assistance from other parties.
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- 3. "Department" means The DEC.
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- 4. "Facility" means any structure or site improvement including paths, trails, roads, bridges, ramps and buildings.
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- 7. "Municipality" means a local public authority or public benefit corporation, a county, city, town, village, or Indian tribe or nation residing within New York state, or any combination thereof. For the purposes of title 5 and title 9 of this article, municipalities also include state agencies, state public authorities and state public benefit corporations. For the purposes of title 7 and title 9 of this article, the term municipality also includes a school district and a supervisory district.
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- 8. "Not-for-profit corporation" means a corporation formed pursuant to the not-for-profit corporation law and qualified for tax-exempt status under the federal internal revenue code.
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- 9. "Office" means the NYS OPRHP.
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- 11. "State assistance payment" means the payment of monies by the state for projects authorized by the environmental protection fund, to preserve, enhance, restore and improve the quality of the state's environment.
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- 12. "Secretary" means the secretary of state.
CRRA
- Relevant definitions provided by ECL § 6-0303:
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- 1. “Criteria” means the state smart growth public infrastructure criteria provided in section 6-0107 of this article.
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- 2. “State infrastructure agency” mean The Department, The Department of Transportation, The Department of Education, The Department of Health, The Department of State, the New York state environmental facilities corporation, the New York state housing finance agency, the housing trust fund corporation, the dormitory authority, the thruway authority, the port authority of New York and New Jersey, the empire state development corporation, the New York state urban development corporation and all other New York authorities. Any subsidiary of, or corporation with the same members or directors as, a public benefit corporation identified in this subdivision also be deemed to be within the definition of state infrastructure agency under this article.
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- 3. “Municipal centers” mean areas of concentrated and mixed land uses that serve as centers for various activities, including, but not limited to, central business districts, main streets, downtown areas, brownfield opportunity areas, downtown areas of local waterfront revitalization program areas, transit-oriented development, environmental justice areas, and hardship areas. Municipal centers also include: areas adjacent to municipal centers, as defined in this subdivision, which have clearly defined borders, are designated for concentrated development in the future in a municipal or regional comprehensive plan, and exhibit strong land use, transportation, infrastructure and economic connections to a municipal center; and areas designated in a municipal or comprehensive plan, and appropriately zoned in a municipal zoning ordinance, as a future municipal center.
CRRA
- Relevant definitions provided by ECL § 17-105:
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- 1. “Person” or “persons” means any individual, public or private corporation, political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, co-partnership, association, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity whatsoever.
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- 2. “Waters” or “waters of the state” be construed to include lakes, bays, sounds, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, wells, rivers, streams, creeks, estuaries, marshes, inlets, canals, the Atlantic ocean within the territorial limits of NYS and all other bodies of surface or underground water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, public or private (except those private waters which do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters), which are wholly or partially within or bordering the state or within its jurisdiction.
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- 3. “Marine district” includes the waters of the Atlantic ocean within three nautical miles from the coast line and all other tidal waters within the state, except the Hudson river north of the south end of Manhattan Island.
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- 4. “Sewage” means the water-carried human or animal wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together with such ground water infiltration and surface water as may be present. The admixture with sewage as above defined by industrial wastes or other wastes as hereafter defined, also be considered “sewage” within the meaning of this article.
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- 5. “Industrial waste” means any liquid, gaseous, solid or waste substance or a combination thereof resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade, or business or from the development or recovery of any natural resources, which may cause or might reasonably be expected to cause pollution of the waters of the state in contravention of the standards adopted as provided herein.
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- 6. “Other wastes” means garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand, lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dyestuffs, acids, chemicals, ballast and all other discarded matter not sewage or industrial waste which may cause or might reasonably be expected to cause pollution of the waters of the state in contravention of the standards adopted as provided herein.
CRRA
- 7. “Standard” or “Standards” means such measure of purity or quality for any waters in relation to their reasonable and necessary use as may be established by The Department pursuant to section 17-0301.
CRRA
- 8. “Sewer system” or “sewerage system” means pipe lines or conduits, pumping stations, and force mains, and all other constructions, devices, and appliances appurtenant thereto, used for conducting sewage, industrial waste or other wastes to a point of ultimate disposal.
CRRA
- 9. “Treatment works” means any plant, disposal field, lagoon, pumping station, constructed drainage ditch or surface water intercepting ditch, incinerator, area devoted to sanitary landfills, or other works not specifically mentioned herein, installed for the purpose of treating, neutralizing, stabilizing or disposing of sewage, industrial waste or other wastes.
CRRA
- 10. “Disposal system” means a system for disposing of sewage, industrial waste or other wastes, and including sewer systems and treatment works.
CRRA
- Relevant definitions provided by ECL § 17-1003:
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- 1. “Facility” means a single property or contiguous or adjacent properties used for a common purpose which are owned or operated by the same person on or in which are located.
CRRA
- a. One or more stationary tanks which are used singularly or in combination for the storage or containment of more than one thousand one hundred gallons of petroleum.
CRRA
- b. Any tank whose capacity is greater than one hundred ten gallons that is used for the storage or containment of petroleum, the volume of which is ten percent or more beneath the surface of the ground.
CRRA
- This term shall not include:
- (1) Facilities licensed under article twelve of the navigation law;
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- (2) Facilities regulated under the federal natural gas act;
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- (3) Heating oil tank used for on premises consumption at the same site which is not interconnected to any other heating oil tank and is used to store or contain less than one thousand one hundred gallons of petroleum unless such tank is located on a site that otherwise meets the definition of facility given in this subdivision;
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- (4) Tanks eleven hundred gallons or less used to store motor fuel (gasoline or diesel products) for non-commercial purposes (not for resale) at a farm or residence, unless such tank or tanks are located on a site that otherwise meets the definition of facility given in this subdivision;
CRRA
- (5) Tanks used to store or contain asphalt, however, tanks used to store or contain asphaltic emulsions are included; or
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- (6) Tanks which have been permanently closed in accordance with regulations promulgated pursuant to section 17-1005 of this title.
CRRA
- 2. “Substantially modified facility” means the reconditioning or replacement of an existing tank or installation of a new tank at a facility.
CRRA
- 3. “Operator” means any person who leases, operates, controls or supervises a facility.
CRRA
- 4. “Owner” means any person who has legal or equitable title to a facility.
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- 5. “Petroleum” means:
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- a. Crude oil and any fraction thereof.
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- b. Any mixture containing crude oil or any fraction thereof.
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- c. Synthetic forms of lubricating oil, dielectric oils, insulating oils, hydraulic oils and cutting oils.
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- Such term shall not include:
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- (1) Hazardous waste defined pursuant to section 27-0903 of this chapter.
CRRA
- (2) Substances meeting the definition of hazardous substance pursuant to section 40-0105 of this chapter.
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- (3) Animal or vegetable oils that do not contain crude oil or fractions thereof.
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- (4) Substances that are gases at standard temperature and pressure.
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- Relevant definitions provided by ECL § 27-1101:
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- As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires:
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- 6. "Municipality" means any town, city, county or village.
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- 10. "Environment" means any water, water vapor, any land including land surface or subsurface, air, fish, wildlife, biota and all other natural resources.
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- Relevant definitions provided by ECL § 40-0105:
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- 4. “Hazardous substance” means any substance listed as a substance hazardous to the public health, safety or the environment in regulations promulgated pursuant to article thirty-seven of this chapter; provided however, that the term “hazardous substance” not include petroleum as defined in section 17-1003 of this chapter.
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- 10. “Storage facility” or “facility” means a single property or contiguous or adjacent properties used for a common purpose which are owned or operated by the same person on or in which are located one or more tanks which are used for the storage or containment of hazardous substances.
CRRA
- Relevant definitions provided by ECL § 49-0201:
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- 1. “Office” means the state NYS OPRHP.
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- 2. “Commissioners” means the state Commissioner of Environmental Conservation and the state Commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation.
CRRA
- Relevant definitions provided by ECL § 54-0301:
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- For purposes of this title, "open space land conservation projects" mean acquisition projects including the purchase of conservation easements undertaken by The Commissioner and/or The Commissioner of the NYS OPRHP listed in the state open space land acquisition plan prepared pursuant to title 2 of article 49 of this chapter.
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- Relevant definitions provided by ECL § 54-0501:
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- 1. “Landfill” means a disposal facility or part of one at which solid waste, or its residue after treatment, is intentionally placed in or on land, and at which solid waste will remain after closure and which is not a land spreading facility, a surface impoundment, or an injection well.
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- 2. “Municipal landfill closure project” means activities undertaken to close, including by reclamation, a landfill owned or operated by a municipality to achieve compliance with regulations promulgated by The Department, or activities undertaken to implement a landfill gas management system.
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- 3. “Cost” means the capital cost of a municipal landfill closure project or a municipal landfill gas management project, including engineering and architectural services, plans and specifications, consultant and legal services, and other direct capital expenses incident to such project, less any federal or other assistance for such project received or to be received.
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- Relevant definitions provided by ECL § 70-0105:
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- 2. “Complete application” mean an application for a permit which is in an approved form and is determined by The Department to be complete for the purpose of commencing review of the application but which may need to be supplemented during the course of review as to matters contained in the application in order to enable The Department to make the findings and determinations required by law. A complete application includes such draft impact statements as may be required pursuant to article eight of this chapter.
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- 4. “Permit” means any permit, certificate, license or other form of Department approval, modification, suspension, revocation, renewal, reissuance or recertification issued in connection with any regulatory program referred to in subdivision three of section 70-0107 of this article as further specified by rule and regulation.
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- 5. “Project” means any activity that requires one or more Department permits.
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- Relevant definitions provided by Ag & Markets Law § 2:
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- 1. “Department” means the state Department of Agriculture and Markets.
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- 2. “Commissioner” means The Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets.
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- Relevant definitions provided by Public Health Law § 2:
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- 1. Whenever used in this chapter, unless otherwise expressly stated or unless the context or subject matter requires a different meaning, the following terms have the respective meanings hereinafter set forth or indicated:
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- (a) Department. The term “Department” means Department of Health of NYS.
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- (b) Commissioner. The term “Commissioner” means Commissioner of Health of NYS.
Other Definitions
"Pending" refers to actions with deadlines in the future.
"Ongoing" refers to actions that will never be completed because they must continuously be undertaken, or because they are requirements triggered by events such as permit applications.