Sec. 628.1. Definitions

(a) Comprehensive solid waste management plan shall mean a proposed program adopted by a county or counties and approved by the commissioner for the purpose of providing effective solid waste recovery and management systems.

(b) Solid waste recovery and management system shall mean a municipal program to provide environmentally sound recovery or disposal of collected solid waste through facilities planned, designed, assembled and constructed to assure environmental protection and to maximize the potential for resource recovery.

(c) Solid waste recovery and management project shall mean the resource recovery equipment, disposal equipment or both, required for a solid waste and recovery management system.

(d) Resource recovery shall mean the process of obtaining materials or energy values from collected solid waste for use or reuse.

(e) Resource recovery equipment shall mean structures, machinery, or devices, singly or in combination, designed, constructed and required to separate, process, modify, convert, treat, or prepare collected solid waste so that component materials or substances or recoverable resources may be used as a raw material or for their productive purposes.

(f) Disposal equipment shall mean:

(1) structures, machinery, or devices at a disposal site necessary to efficient and environmentally sound land disposal of solid wastes, including but not limited to machinery or devices designed to move earth during burial of wastes or to increase the density of wastes buried or to be buried; and

(2) facilities, except vehicles, in which solid waste is temporarily stored and concentrated prior to transport to a disposal site.

(g) Municipality shall mean a city, county, town, village, public benefit corporation having power granted otherwise than under this article to construct, operate and maintain solid waste management projects, or an improvement district within a city, county, town or village, or any combination thereof.

(h) Cost shall mean the cost of resource recovery equipment or disposal equipment, engineering and architectural surveys, plans and specifications, and consultants and legal services and other direct expenses incident to a solid waste management project, exclusive of land acquisition, and expenses incident thereto, less any Federal assistance received or to be received.

(i) Commissioner shall mean the Commissioner of Environmental Conservation.

(j) Department shall mean the Department of Environmental Conservation.

(k) Governing body shall mean:

(1) in the case of a town, a town board;

(2) in the case of a county outside of the city of New York, the county board of supervisors or other elective governing body;

(3) in the case of a city, or village, the local legislative body thereof, as the term is defined in the Municipal Home Rule Law;

(4) in the case of a public benefit corporation, the board of directors, members or trustees thereof.