§ 1285-g. Industrial materials recycling program. 1. Applicability. It\nis the purpose of this section to establish a program within the\ncorporation to encourage the reduction, recovery and recycling of\nindustrial materials otherwise requiring disposal.\n 2. Definitions. When used in this section, unless another meaning\nclearly appears from its context:\n a. "Hazardous waste" means a waste which appears on the list or\nsatisfied the criteria promulgated by the commissioner of environmental\nconservation pursuant to section 27-0903 of the environmental\nconservation law and until, but not after, the promulgation of such list\nand criteria means a waste or combination of wastes, which because of\nits quality, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious\ncharacteristics may:\n (i) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or\nan increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible\nillness; or\n (ii) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or\nthe environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed\nor otherwise managed.\n b. "Industrial solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a\nwaste treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other\ndiscarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, mining and\nagricultural operations as a result of a commercial or industrial\nprocess but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic\nsewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or\nindustrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under\narticle seventeen of the environmental conservation law, or source,\nspecial nuclear or by-product material as defined in the Atomic Energy\nAct of 1954, as amended except as may be provided by existing agreements\nbetween the state of New York and the government of the United States.\n c. "Industrial material" means hazardous waste and industrial solid\nwaste.\n d. "Recovery and recycling" means any method or technique utilized to\nseparate, process, modify, convert, treat, or otherwise prepare\nindustrial materials so that component materials or substances may be\nused as raw materials or energy sources.\n e. "Person" means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company,\ncorporation (including a government corporation), partnership,\nassociation, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a\nstate, or any interstate body.\n f. "Generator" means a person whose industrial activities produce\nindustrial material.\n 3. Industrial materials recycling program. a. The corporation shall\nundertake and be responsible for a program to encourage industrial\nmaterials reduction, recovery and recycling as hereinafter provided. The\ncorporation shall give first priority in such program to hazardous\nwastes in order to reduce risks to public health and the environment.\n b. Such program shall include but not be limited to the following\nactivities:\n i. Planning including compilation of, research and development\ninformation on industrial methods, technologies and practices that will\nresult in the reduction, recovery or recycling of industrial materials.\n ii. Investigation and research into market potential and feasibility\nfor increased utilization of recovered or recycled industrial materials.\n iii. Collection, development and maintenance of data on existing and\nprojected production of industrial materials.\n iv. Review and analysis of existing industrial methods, technologies\nand practices relating to the generation, use and disposal of industrial\nmaterials.\n v. Development and maintenance of a technical reference capability on\nindustrial materials reduction, recovery and recycling methods,\ntechnologies and practices including appropriate information available\nfor public and private use.\n vi. Encouragement and assistance, within the resources available, to\ngenerators and users of industrial materials and to municipalitie
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